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    My cousin is in the corps and came home last weekend telling me a friend of his is getting a AR that is carbon... I hope he didn't buy a bushtrashter c15
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    I realize the backlash coming but, I bought an early carbon 15, early 2003 or so, the one with oval handgaurd and stainless flutted bbl, unique bolt carrier group and buttstock assembly and weighed about a five pounds . I have about 5K rnds thru it with out an issue. It fed steel case cheapass wolf, silverbear as well as xm193 without a problem. It was fairly accurate with stainless bbl, the one feature i remember was the huge muzzle flash and the blast felt by my friend next to me. It was fun to shoot, but after years of trying I got a ffl to transfer in a 6920.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onado2000 View Post
    I realize the backlash coming but, I bought an early carbon 15, early 2003 or so, the one with oval handgaurd and stainless flutted bbl, unique bolt carrier group and buttstock assembly and weighed about a five pounds . I have about 5K rnds thru it with out an issue. It fed steel case cheapass wolf, silverbear as well as xm193 without a problem. It was fairly accurate with stainless bbl, the one feature i remember was the huge muzzle flash and the blast felt by my friend next to me. It was fun to shoot, but after years of trying I got a ffl to transfer in a 6920.
    Hey, that's great! Go buy a lottery ticket.


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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    Hey, that's great! Go buy a lottery ticket.
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    I have a friend with an '06 Range Rover that has been ISSUE FREE for 100K miles now, and I say the same thing to him every time he touts their reliability…

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    Quote Originally Posted by onado2000 View Post
    I realize the backlash coming but, I bought an early carbon 15, early 2003 or so, the one with oval handgaurd and stainless flutted bbl, unique bolt carrier group and buttstock assembly and weighed about a five pounds . I have about 5K rnds thru it with out an issue. It fed steel case cheapass wolf, silverbear as well as xm193 without a problem. It was fairly accurate with stainless bbl, the one feature i remember was the huge muzzle flash and the blast felt by my friend next to me. It was fun to shoot, but after years of trying I got a ffl to transfer in a 6920.
    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    Hey, that's great! Go buy a lottery ticket.


    C4
    I also have one of the Lake Havasu made Bushmaster branded Carbon 15s and it has been a great gun, if what you are looking for is an extremely light weight, light duty AR. It has never bobbled and shoots better than I expected but 2 mags (20s) in short order starts the melting plastic aroma.

    I also bought a current production Bushmaster Carbon 15 for a test bed and broke the Picatinny rail off the top and the hinge off the bottom of the upper when I removed the barrel. The “Carbon” ain’t got much carbon but seem like recycled soda pop bottles.

    It busted with less than 10lbs of torque on the barrel wrench with very little flex, just a snap.

    It now has a Troy VTAC Alpha rail and a forged upper but if the lower snapped off at the extension from a hard look I honestly would not be surprised.

    While most here have no use for plastic uppers and lowers it seems Bushmaster doubled down and used crappy plastic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    So a friend on the forum brings in a BM Carbon 15 (that is owned by a friend of his) for a new gas tube. The top of the GT (closest to the top of the charging handle) is smashed and crimped downward. I looked at it and was like how Da F*Q did that happen??

    So as I push out the roll pin on the GT and look at the the GT hole in the upper receiver. It is pushed all the way to the side (touching the wall). Hmm, that's interesting. I wonder if the FSB wasn't installed straight (canted) and is causing it. So I pull the upper out of the vice and look at it. Sure enough, the the FSB is canted. Ugh.

    I remove the GT and then remove the barrel nut. As I am turning the barrel nut, I feel the entire barrel turn slightly. After removing the barrel nut, I see that the alignment pin in the barrel extension had pushed its way through the plastic of the upper receiver during installation (most likely from over tightening). Double Ugh.


    The best part is the owners contacted BM for help and they blew them off.

    Did I mention that I love working on BM's.



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    Hey, my friend just bought a Bushy, he liked it because it had a"pica dilly" rail to mount his BSA red dot
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    The sad thing is that the lgs near me sells a ton of those ATI lowers and tells people they're good for 5.56 as well as .22lr. I guess that's the only good part about the SAFE act: it will stop crap lowers from being sold to the uninformed.

    Oh, and I'm stealing Grant's sig idea...
    Last edited by mattiep321; 09-15-13 at 08:11.

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    Unfortunately, I didn't know about M4C when I was making my first AR purchase several months ago, but I fell into the Bushmaster Carbon ditch when shopping for my AR. The dealer said he sells alot of them (sales pitch), so I bought one. I liked it. Light as a feather, ultra cool red dot, but started lurking around forums and read about the issues with it, but I haven't had any as of yet. I limit it to .223 55 grain and it groups well. I've put over 500+ rounds and it is NOT my SHTF gun...limited to plinking. I also purchased a Rock River, which has been absolutely flawless.

    With Bushmaster, some will defend it, most will kick it, but I own it so it really doesn't matter. Best thing to do is do some research before you buy and save yourself regret later....or a post on gunbroker.com. My .02.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Camlocker View Post
    Unfortunately, I didn't know about M4C when I was making my first AR purchase several months ago, but I fell into the Bushmaster Carbon ditch when shopping for my AR.
    I made the same mistake when I got my first AR a few years ago. I was shooting it at the range and noticed the stock a little wobbly. I applied a little force on the stock to see if it's cracked and saw the whole buffer tube shift. I figured it just wasn't tightened, especially considering there was no staking on it what so ever.

    As I tightened the castle nut I noticed the threaded ring on the lower receiver split at the 12 o'clock position.



    I went home all heated, broke down my rifle to further inspect it, and realized why the buffer tube was never properly secured. You need to take off the buffer tube to disassemble to rifle. It was designed to not use a buffer retaining pin, had a non-standard bolt carrier, non-standard buffer, and God knows what else.

    http://i.imgur.com/FRaBOeM.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/OhmZhqV.jpg

    I contacted Bushmaster about getting this fixed, or replaced with another Carbon15 lower receiver, and they linked me to their catalog and said that if I didn't like the Carbon15 I could always buy another rifle.

    Really? A Bushmaster rifle cracked after a couple hundred rounds and they tell me to buy another rifle from them? I was pretty ****ing irate. The lower receiver was replaced with an ATI Omni polymer and is a dedicated .22lr plinker. I don't trust that thing with a full power round.

    This is the crack after I tried to save the lower receiver with some JB Weld.
    http://i.imgur.com/3sOMN.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    Hey, that's great! Go buy a lottery ticket.


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    & if i win i will buy another 6920

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