All due respect. If you want opinions why don't you include DPMS, Olympic etc. Its a no brainer. S&W M&P15 gets my vote over Bushmaster. You should try to get him to look @ Colt, Daniel Defense, Charles Daly and Bravo Co. also.
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All due respect. If you want opinions why don't you include DPMS, Olympic etc. Its a no brainer. S&W M&P15 gets my vote over Bushmaster. You should try to get him to look @ Colt, Daniel Defense, Charles Daly and Bravo Co. also.
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Here's the deal, Home Chicken:
I've got two smokewagons, one is an M&P15, the other is a Bushmaster Modular Carbine.
The M&P came from the factory as basic as it could get. The Bushmaster came "hooked up".
The Bushmaster had a joke of a stake job on the castle nut/gas keys.
The S&W had a great job done on both, from the factory.
The S&W was almost $600 cheaper, and is all-around a much better firearm.
The S&W doesn't really need any "fixes" other than a RIS instead of a standard handguard.
The Bushmaster needed a lot of work just to get it to where the S&W already was from the factory.
I had to try my damndest not to reply as a smartass, but if your buddy really wants to know, that's whatchya should tell him.
If I was startin' all over again I wouldn't have touched the BM with a 10' pole. I ain't getting rid of it, but life is more simple when you don't have to fix factory fudge-ups.
P.S.
The BM's BUIS, on the ModCar, totally and completely suck goat ass.
M&P would be my choice also. But you may want to consider a BCM upper and any forged lower.
Slugger