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I only made it to 29 pages, with little in the way of the threads original intent.
I have been shooting for 15 years (on my own) and spent some time in the military shooting on the range (6.5 years)
I joined the Marines in 1997 at 17 years of age , my personal experince with ARs:
November 1999- I purchased my first AR type rifle, a Bushmaster XM15 E25 Shorty AK Carbine. It had a heavy barrel and a pinned compensator, fixed stock and an A2 upper, I believe it did have chrome lining. I don't recall anything about BC staking or o-rings, but I do remember my first malfunction. I had repeated failure to fires, I would pull the trigger and hear a click. Turns out there was a primer floating around in my lower, I don't recall checking brass. I remember having decent accuracy, I could average about 13 jackrabbits per 30 round magazine. I got rid of the BM around late 2001. I fired around 2,000 rounds and made 0 modifications to the rifle. Rifle cost ~$900.
October 2002- I purchased an Olympic PCR 00, It had a heavy unthreaded barrel , fixed stock and an A2 upper. I kept the rifle for about 6 years and fired less than 200 rounds of Wolf through it, I had no failures in the few controlled well lubricated rounds I fired through it; I made 0 modifications to the rifle. Rifle cost ~$800.
November 2007 - I ordered a Del-Ton M4 kit with a CL 1/9 barrel and assembled it using a Superior Arms lower. I kept it for about 2 years and fired only about 120 rounds through it. In those 120 rounds I had to mortar the rifle twice to remove a stuck unfired round (I do a brass check after charging the weapon). At least the Superior Arms lower, commercial receiver extension and safety held up to being pounded on the sand. There were no other failures in the few well lubed rounds I have fired. Build cost ~$650 w/BUIS.
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May 2009- I came into 6 Noveske N4 "blem" lowers.
June 2009- I built a Noveske N4 light basic, but using a Colt M16 BCG & CH and a Stag LPK instead of the Noveske BCG. Build cost ~$1,300
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June 2009- I built up a 14.5 DPMS M4A2 upper using a hard chrome DPMS bolt carrier group (w/BCM upgrade) and Stag CH, DPMS stock kit and LPK in a Spikes Tactical stripped lower. The barrel was chrome lined and shot very well. FSB flush and 3 clicks R to print pinky nail groups on a 36 meter zero target. This rifle was my truck gun and gave my ~460 rounds of happy well lubed service before I traded it to a coworker for a BCM upper and LMT SOPMOD stock from BCM. Build cost ~ $650.
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November 2009- I built a RECCE type rifle using a stripped Aero Precision upper and lower and a DPMS LPK worked over by Bill Springfield. The gas block was a MI aluminum one and the barrel was a DD $169 M4 special from Bravo Company held on using a MI T12 rail and mated to a BCM BCG with a Gunfighter CH. The stock I used was a VLTOR A2 Modstock and the rifle was tipped with a Smith Enterprise Vortex. I aslo had one of Grants 9v weapon lights attached. I gave this rifle to my brother, build cost ~1500. My first ground up build.
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I have built at least 5 others in varying quality, but the point is I learned from my ignorance of cheap rifles.
A friend of mine has a DPMS Panther rifle all tricked out with the scope, bipod, chrome BCG, etc. You know, just like the picture on their site. I am running an SR-15 and a BCM Carbine. My friend loves his DPMS and I just don't have the heart to tell him it is the bottom of the barrel.
So what is a good friend supposed to do? :sad:
Will tell you your shit is ****ed, then help you fix it. Tell him his eye candy is just a turd in a pretty bow. See if he can pawn it off to some pimple faced CoD ninja college boy!:big_boss:
Offer to let him use ur bcm when his fails cause it will fail
Not cold, just being practical. Would you rather have a friend slap you silly when you screw up, or just pay you lip service and gives pats on the back when you ****ed up. Personally I would prefer to have someone be brutally honest that way there is zero chance of me not knowing I screwed up.