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Fact of life:
Although the EAGLE may soar proudly through the skies, it is very rare for the Weasel to be sucked into a jet engine.
When it comes to AR building I am the greenist cherry. I do like quaility and I like to understand why something is better then something else. I also install a lot of commercial door hardware for a living and, although I am not a millwright, I am more versed then your average carpenter/door hanger. I have picked up several different stripped lowers and I scrounged the matching LPK'S. RRA & STAG feel & look the same. The Stag/CMT kit weighs 148 grams the RRA comes in @ 136 grams. I have not compared pcs, just the whole kit. the pcs felt identical.
I borrowed a friends DPMS kit and (I did not record the grams) and I think it was
20 grams lighter +/_ then the RRA. The Dpms kit had that plastic feel and heft to some of the parts.
All that aside I use RRA parts in the RRA lowers & Stag/CMT parts in their Lowers.
Last edited by BravoWhiskey; 11-19-09 at 00:06.
Differences can be ease of installation, finish, durability, and how they feel when installed. I buy a pile of parts and mix and match until I find something I like.
There can be a wide difference in lower parts, and certain specific parts have wider ranges of quality. Most anything you'd be able to tell just by looking will be cosmetic differences, unless you get a really mangled part.
For what it's worth, some small parts from different manufacturers will (sometimes) be indistinguishable even with a magnifying glass. When I got some Colt small parts from SAW a few years back, the selectors were virtually identical (as in, made on the same tooling) to my Stag selectors. Other parts, though, like the roll pins, were obviously of higher quality on the Colt side and were easier to use.
I got a LPK from... I'm pretty sure it was Bravo Co. .... a couple of years ago around the same time... they told me over the phone that they assembled their own kits from various suppliers. Some of the nicest examples of specific parts I've found came from those kits.
Last edited by boltcatch; 11-19-09 at 08:04.
Where would you put Armalite in the mix Grant?
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