I HAVE read the above thread....
I HAVE read the "Bushmaster" Stickys......
And what that amounts to is a bunch of crap that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the model I am 'thinking' about buying......
And NO ONE seems to want to ANSWER my original question, they only want to bash me for NOT reading something that I didn't know existed in the first place.......
And since "The Chart" has been removed and replaced with a bunch of gobbledy gook, that makes absolutely no sense when it comes to answering my question, it's crap and should be removed altogether and never referenced again.

I just wasted half an hour reading useless information!
And the "Sticky" that is supposed to show pics of AR's doesn't even bother to name the rifles shown........Semper Phi
This IS why I asked the question I did to begin with. I didn't ask for opinions about Bushmaster in general; if you just don't like BM that's fine but I don't care. I asked for SPECIFIC opinions about the Bushmaster C15 Combo only. Is there a problem with it? Does anyone have one that has an educated opinion? If BM isn't a good brand what would be?
I see that the Colt seems to be a popular brand and I will check into those.
Thank you for your responses. I'm still not OFFENDED, I'm pissed because people on these damn forums are only on here so they can behave like they are holier than thou......If you can't answer my question then bugger off! You have NO idea what I have read on this forum and what I haven't......AND if those stickys or searchs didn't answer my question I guess that's why I asked the question and started this thread.
This was the most helpful and least judgmental response I received to my question:
TehLlama
The stickies are the top list of permanently attached threads at the top of each forum.
If in doubt on an abbreviation, the search bar is your friend - just search that abbreviation, and somewhere on the first page it'll probably be spelled out. If not, google that plus AR and it will likely come up.
If you want to look at multi-use setups, the CMMG Drop-in kit, which works OK for what it is, still puts you within $100 of starting off with a Colt 6920 and the convo kit, which is an infinitely better rifle than the BM C-15 anything. I'd still say make the .22lr trainer a dedicated rifle, let that setup absorb all the accessories you no longer want on a primary rifle, and work from there. Looking at how much they want for that C-15 combo kit makes me cringe - you can start off with an excellent rifle (the 6920) and buy a .22 kit, instead of having two configurations of a rifle that is frankly worse made than a lot of airsoft hardware I own.
The reason there's concern on new people being upset, is the majority of low information AR buyers come here, get offended or assume that this site exists to make people who buy cheap hardware feel bad, and then seek advice elsewhere where the subject matter expert (SME) to clueless idiot ratio is closer to zero. Just some context on what you'll read from the stickies - the same way a four-door sedan sold for under $8000 new is intuitively not good at its job, most rifles under $900 are going to be utter crap - in the firearms industry companies get away with it because most rifles live in a safe and aren't fired, thus you get lots of errornet information that 'my rifle is perfectly reliable', which is worth as much as a car review where they've driven it around a wal-mart parking lot in first gear.
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