luckily I live right next to Fort Bragg, NC. A lot of shops operated by ex-spec ops and very expirenced armorors. A lot of bad shops too .... but just gotta find the good ones.
luckily I live right next to Fort Bragg, NC. A lot of shops operated by ex-spec ops and very expirenced armorors. A lot of bad shops too .... but just gotta find the good ones.
I know exactlyhow you feel.
I recently traded off my my 'old' AR for one from Daniel Defense. And of course you have everyone ask you a bazillion questions about why you would dump a "perfectly good" rifle for one that costs twice as much. So I did the best I could telling them all the stuff I had learned pertaining to why I would do so. Wouldn't you know- I get the thing and it has a couple issues. And immediately I got the "thought you said this was a better company har-de-har" line. What can you do... :suicide2:
And I have a neighbor who builds ARs- but he's rather obsessed with quantity over quality. He proceeded to show me his "top of the line" rifle- his weighed a ton too!:lol:
Out of the 7 gunshops within 2+/- hours of me, two I will never step foot in again, unless they're standing at the door handing out free guns. And three of the others only as a last resort.
Anyway-
I'm glad someone posted this as I was about to myself. Good to have a heads up about the 'smithing classes too.
At least I know I'm not to bad off- VA Arms is *only* about 4 hours away.:p
I have a dealer/friend that started up about two years ago and I have been trying to lead him down the road of AR knowledge but he seems to keep hitting speed bumps. I went in today and noticed an old RRA A2 ban era(no logo on lower just lettering) hanging on the wall above the shotguns- 799.00 on the tag. I pull it down because I can't resist and the only other AR in the shop is a CMMG 6.8. He instantly tells me if I know someone who could use it he would take 600.00 for it. So before even looking I ask him why so cheap (his AR prices run around a grand for the right side of the chart names). He says look at the FSB- someone had lopped it off because they had a carry handle scope mount and apparently thought the front sight was still in the way. The dealer goes on to tell me that the seller had brought it in a couple times to trade and he had refused but, apparently the third time was the charm after the seller had re-attached the top part of the FSB with epoxy:blink:.
So I am trying to figure who is the dumber of the two- the guy who re-attached the upper part of the FSB with epoxy or the dealer who actually took it in on trade.
I would wager I'll have that rifle here eventually making into some other fuddable configuration so he can actually sell it.