
Originally Posted by
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I am the last person on this list to try and claim any sort of expert status -- I learn new things all the time.
However, I think the above is overly broad. It may be true of BMs commercial spec tubes, but more than one company makes RE tubes to the commercial spec and I would be surprised if ALL of them are made of cheaper material. I would also be surprised if all the ones made to mil-spec dimensions are made out of better material.
For the topic at hand:
For the record, my gun is made with BM parts (on the upper) from the late 90s and works great. I cannot claim the heavy use that some people regularly see but it has been through a few multi-day high round classes without issue. I have not seen a complete BM rifle in a long time so cannot comment on those. However, back around 2000 or 2001 a friend bought a complete BM upper with their (YHM?) railed gas block preinstalled. The thing shook loose in less than 50 rounds. I was not overly impressed at all with it.
My brother has a 98 era post-ban BM carbine that seems to work well, and another friend had a BM DCM gun that worked well.
It seems to me that based on the collective experience here, BM commercial offerings have, at least in the last many years, been hit-or-miss. Definitely not something I would stake my life on.
Chad
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