 that is just what's up guys and welcome back to the john q channel i'm excited for this video today this is the diamond back chambered in 556 and i gotta say like oh this is a look at that this is a fun rifle to shoot i mean as you just saw those first shots this rifle is easy this rifle is light this rifle is fun quick disclaimer guys diamond bag did send me this rifle to review on the channel to shoot and to post about it uh and just so you guys know the sights the light the foregrip plus the magazine uh entirely is all mine and not stock from diamond backs you'll get the sights the iron sights and not everything else that you see on here like you saw in those first shots uh the start of this video i this is such a fun rifle to shoot and personally like me i love guns that are aesthetically pleasing to me right and if it doesn't look cool i tend not to shoot it maybe that's a bad thing but i don't care that's me and when i saw this gun stock without all this other stuff i was like that gun looks really though real rad i need to shoot that thing so one of the things that i do like so far about this rifle like we focus here we go is the the actual handrail most rifles that i do shoot have a a lighter skinnier more narrow handrail which is fine there's nothing wrong with it but when you know when i'm as i'm shooting this i'm thinking man this really fills my support hand it fills it up and i like it i can actually support myself on this gun with the handrail itself i like how just beefy it is but also being light i think it weighs in about seven pounds and the trigger press is about three three and a half pounds or so which super light for rifle i mean the way it shoots incredible i also love that there's a flat trigger on there every time i come out to the range i find myself going for the rifles i got that flat trigger which i'm liking you know it's not a preference i just i'm liking the flat triggers a little bit more than those curve triggers comes stock with picatinny on the on top of the rifle here and it's the mlock on the on the rails here it does come stock with the iron sights for magpul it's got a magpul stock which is nice magpul handle and yeah it's just like a magpul diamond back collaboration and it's man it's been shooting so fun oh my gosh that that is just oh my it's just crazy fun to shoot this thing let's talk about recoil very quick there's practically no recoil to the dv-15 that's crazy to say but as you keep seeing me shoot there's practically i mean the gun is level the gun literally sits here here it's not coming here it's not coming back sits here i mean you can't beat that aside from it being seven pounds the added weight that i have from the fore grip uh the flashlight the hollow sun and the mag uh maybe adds like what another pound and a half two pounds so a total of let's say a total of nine and a half pounds on this rifle as it sits you know with a full mag that is not that heavy and if you're hauling around a rifle like this at the range where you're going out to train i mean it's not going to get heavy on you you're not going to get fatigued so i'm all about it definitely comes in with the looks but let's talk about functionality is it functional i mean 100 you know i do like that there's kind of just a little bit of a mag flare uh flared magwell there which i like that way i can get my mag i can make sure it's fitted inside the rifle and i'm not going to miss right so i like that stock the stock is beefy butt stock is beefy the butt is beefy the butt stock the butt is beefy as it sits on my cheek it's as it sits on here i mean it's it's not that bad i'm out i'm out hold on let's do this one oh it's so good but no as it sits my cheek on the on the butt stock yeah i mean it's it's comfortable it's not not a comfortable right and it does sit fairly well on my shoulder where i can drive it back and get that stance i need and get that recoil management to mitigate recoil so i'm a big fan of pretty much anything mag pulls makes all right let's quickly talk about the safety i don't even have to face the rifle down to get in that position of fire and safe and i can easily manipulate that with my thumb which by the way that's a huge plus for me why because of this if i'm done shooting here like for example which i just shot and have to flip right away to safe when i engage that safety switch from from fire to safe it's an easy instantaneous smooth transition and i don't have to like i don't have to work for it where i have to bring my rifle down and kind of get a better grip and flip that safety so if i have to manipulate from fire to safety i can easily do that and the fact that diamond back makes that possible easily with that safety switch i give that a 10 out of 10 i love that another thing that you might find and might like on the db15 is a skeletonized trigger guard on the rifle as you can see it's not just like a basic cutoff it's kind of like it comes down to a point and a backup to the handle which it's small details like that right but i think that makes it worth it because when my hand is up on that rifle i have this little divot this little curve for my fingers to relax and to set in that way i can further mitigate that recoil which by the way like i said before practically no recoil it's so good as the rifle sits just stock you're going to be looking at about 1680 right or 1700 and my thoughts are this if you're in in this world of firearms tactical firearms and rifles and you like to shoot and you like to go to the range and learn and train yeah this is a rifle that you might want to pick up so here's the thing i will say that for your first rifle sure you could pick it up it'll shoot nice you'll learn pretty well but if you were like down the road and you want to get you know your second rifle your third rifle this might be a really good option for you to me this rifle is more of the hey i'm kind of out of my training phase rifle if that makes sense and i want to get serious about shooting i want to get serious about training and i want to get serious about what i use at the range has the makings of of being a quality top tier rifle that you can put a neotech on there you can put a cloud defensive light on there you can put an emery emery development foregrip on there and make it that your go to if you want a truck gun this could be it like that's how i'm thinking in terms of being your second or third rifle and you're out of that training phase or out of like the you know you're riding a bike and i got my training wheels off and that's what i'm talking about but you do you you do you if you want to get it for your first rifle by all means it's gonna be great you're gonna you're gonna see some great improvement you're gonna see some great training because it's so light and it's easy maneuverable which is great so i just you every time i go to shoot this gun i can't help but just rapid fire because it's that great and that 3.5 pound trigger and that trigger being flat i mean that to me is money just money gosh it's just it's just money dude i love it gosh i i literally cannot i'm telling you right now i would buy this rifle this right it's such a good rifle remember when i talked about aesthetically pleasing rifle look look at the detail on here look at the detail and then look at where it ends with the uh with the garden and the rail that aesthetically pleasing i went with the the tan or kind of like the fde look just because i love the fde uh and black two tone uh color the colorway and i think to me that just is super aesthetically pleasing so yeah go with whatever you want but fde is king my initial thoughts honestly great solid rifle for anybody who's wanting to get a better rifle than they already have for me i love that it's accurate it has a very low recoil which is important to me and it's got some cool features on it that i love so what do you guys think do you guys think this is a viable option for you why are we not comment down below and if you are thinking about getting one let me know why and i want to thank you guys for watching and i'll catch you in the next johnny q video peace all right all right here we go time to end the video with some shooting i love it it's just such a great rifle i love it