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After further thought,here's option #2. Take your Del-Ton/CMMG/DS Arms package and put that up for sale/auction. Make sure you put the Spikes BCG in it because the Spider logo rocks! Now the next part will cost you a little money but trust me it will pay back in huge dividends. Buy the cheapest Red Dot Sight you can find with the crappiest mount and put that on the Del-Ton. Get one of those vertical grips with a bipod sticking out the bottom and put that on it too. For the final touch add some oversized Tacticool flashlight the size of a small toilet plunger to it. Make sure everything is made in China. You guys can laugh, but there is no doubt in my mind that there is a large segment of the AR community that consider this build as "good as a Colt, BCM,DD,etc". To them it would be like getting one of Clapton's guitars. The Holy Friggin Grail! The money you would make off of this would pay for a DD 300 Blackout URG and an Aimpoint PRO or Micro. Don't believe me? Just go look at Grant's Thread on "Awesomeness". I rest my case.
just shoot that barrel till you wear it out or it does something unacceptable. then replace it with what you want...
never push a wrench...
Why cant you file a claim? Did you pay by check or money order?
Ill never pay that way for that reason.
I would definately sell the barrel and pick up a DD barrel. DD barrels are very high quality. Well everything DD is. "Im a huge DD fan by the way!!" Not only that, Im just not a fan of DPMS either.
any chance of the seller making it right? i mean, that is crappy. with that said, you got an O.K. deal (understanding that the dpms barrel is garbage). what i would do is ream the chamber to a true 5.56 and shoot TONS of 55gr ammo through it at classes. if you want a new barrel, that's another story. you very well may be able to recoup some of your loss by selling the dpms on a forum where people appreciate trash like that. at the end of the day, the chances of it shooting 55 grain ammo well are pretty great... i just prefer the insurance i get when purchasing a quality barrel.
Acta Non Verba
If it happened to me I'd try and get my money back.
If that failed I'd just shoot it a bunch and see how it works. If it doesn't work out then I'd change the barrel.
I don't buy used very often. My DD upper cost me around $800 and it's well worth it. My complete DD rifle I bought for under $1100. I don't see the benefit of buying used.
This is what I would do as well. Just move forward with your build plans and later on purchase a DD,BCM barrrel from the equipment exchange here. After you have your new barrel, sell the DPMS to recoup some of the money you spent to replace the barrel. I would get the barrel checked by a decent gunsmith to make sure it is in spec to shoot 5.56 first or only shoot 223 until you replace the barrel.
While I am a huge fan of DD and agree that you got screwed in that deal, I would just run the DPMS barrel if I were you. Shoot it for 6 months or a year until you save up enough to buy a DD barrel. If the DPMS barrel gives you issues, replace it sooner, but I bet it'll be fine until you can get something better.
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If you bought this from an internet forum, I would approach the moderators with the issue and either get them actively involved in the issue or attempt to have the individual seller banned from the forum.
Also, I would keep copies of the original advertisement and all correspondence with the seller.
Last edited by justin_247; 03-05-12 at 11:39.
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