They purchase their parts from a manufacturing source.
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They purchase their parts from a manufacturing source.
I'm with you on this one. I may not be a LEO/MIL, or even a hard use competitor, but all of my firearms decisions end up being stuff I feel I can depend on if I were to run em hard. I own stuff like Noveske, Colt, GLOCK, and so on....see what I mean? I want to depend on what I shoot, not just now, at my weekly or monthly range trips, but down the road as well, even if my needs change.
I don't think we are comparing apples to apples here..
I never said, "a company would only buy C158 if they had a large customer base or a large amount of contracts" . I apologize if I did not fully articulate my words.
BM,DPMS,OLY,etc. do not make all of their own parts in-house. They use outside vendors and buy what they need to fill their specific specs/demands.(Which is totally ok)
Buying a full lot of "raw" C158 is different from buying a finished part machined from C158.
Hate to bring up a month old post, but the only items on an Olympic AR that are outsourced at present are springs and pins. Everything else is produced by Olympic Arms. The plastic parts are not made at the Oly plant, but they are made in Washington State on Oly designed molds...My source for this info is Oly's marketing honcho.
All this means is that agencies/individuals purchase based solely on price point, not quality.
Every class I've attended, where someone was running an Oly/DPMS etc, they had some type of reliability issues.
These days, you can purchase a quality weapon from a reputable manufacturer without breaking the bank (BCM comes to mind).