When I went in to my local gun shop to transfer my BCM blemished lower the owner said, "I can sell you an unblemished RRA lower for on $10 more. You will be way better off in the long run.". I passed on his offer.
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When I went in to my local gun shop to transfer my BCM blemished lower the owner said, "I can sell you an unblemished RRA lower for on $10 more. You will be way better off in the long run.". I passed on his offer.
This is something I can never wrap my head around, because I'm from Canada, and things are different here.
If you could get a Colt for $1100-1200 bucks, I would have FIVE OF THEM.
In Canada, you can get a Norinco M4 for $700. A Colt, if you can find one, might be $3,000.
Okay, I get people deciding to spend $700 instead of $3000.
What I can't get my head around is people who cheap out on a bottom-feeding AR...over three hundred ****ing dollars!
Seriously...I get the desire to save a few bucks but WHY would you shortchange yourself on a rifle to knock off something like 20% of the purchase price?
The price range in the US is so narrow that I just can't grasp people buying the cheap stuff. It's practically the same price as the top quality stuff!
I will never, ever understand this. I have totally given up trying.
A guy I know told me that his Rock River is just as good as any Noveske rifle and that night force scopes were over priced and to just get one of those "100 dollar ones" I guess we should all trade up. :sarcastic:
ROFL! I've had my fill of cheap optics, thank you very much!
This is a legitimate question:
Does anyone know the wholesale markup differences between Bushmaster & Colt? I'd like to know which one is more profitable for retailers.
With that said, the prices of lower-tier rifles still amaze me (i.e. not being any less than a 6920, around here, anyway.) I'd never pay for than $650 for a rifle like that, off the rack...especially considering they can be built for less.
Oh well, non-enthusiast folks who want a black gun will continue to buy them, install an high-rise NC Star shit-scope and shoot pigs with them all day. They'll never learn to build one, and will continue to say Bushmaster is the best thing since the automatically flushing toilet. At the end of they day, though...we have more folks with fun rifles, more money going back into the economy and good ears with which you and I can ignore gun counter conjecture. :D
My first AR was a DPMS and it was an expensive lesson. I spent out the wazoo trying to get that gun "as good as." When I finally did my research after the fact, I realized it was hopeless and bought a BCM mid length upper and called it a day. I'll drop a new LPK in it and some kns pins and leave it like that.
I'll tell anybody that you cannot build up a lower tier AR into a Colt for cheaper than a Colt.
I understand the delimma that most newcomers face as I am a newcomer myself. I just purchased the exact Colt the OP mentioned last week. All my friends and family thought I was crazy since I could've bought a bushmaster with reddot for $599. After reading the knowledge base and stickies here, I thought the Colt was perfect for me and my needs.
Ask them what kind of car they drive. When they tell you, offer him $300 for it. If he gets indignant, tell him this:
Since all cars are the same, if you drive anything other than a 12-year-old Kia, you are wasting money, right?
They all get their parts from the same suppliers, right? You are just paying for the name. A German Audi and a Russian Lada are the same thing, right?
And QC checks are unimportant when you have a good warranty, correct? So when the freaking thing breaks down in a blizzard and they get stranded and freeze to death.....
Wait, that's called a Darwin Award.
The degree of motarditry around firearms never, ever ceases to amaze me.