
Originally Posted by
ac130usnsr
Can we get over this crap with the PSA gas tubes? It happened more than three years ago and there was NOT "a ton of middy uppers with carbine length gas tubes.". There were EXACTLY THREE out of a batch of 300 that shipped with carbine gas tubes. PSA resolved the problems for the THREE individuals that had the problem uppers, fired the person responsible for assembling them incorrectly and changed their QC process to include test firing of ALL uppers prior to shipping.
When PSA has a lemon (or several) this and TOS turn it into "a ton" or all of PSA's stuff are lemons and stitch together incidents of unrelated and/or relatively few problems to be an EPIC trend of FAIL. A lot of the PSA info is old, rehashed, "I heard" or "my cousin's best friend's brother in law said" crap. Did PSA let some lemons out in the wild? Yes. Will there be any more? Yes, it's a manufactured item, it happens. Even with BCM, who has had batches of out of spec upper receivers, canted front site bases and poorly machined uppers. But when BCM has a lemon (or several) it gets summarily dismissed as "shit happens occasionally but they're real good at correcting it when it does happen" and then it's conveniently forgotten that BCM ever made a mistake. Not knocking BCM, just the rabid fanboys and the PSA haters who have never even touched or owned a PSA product.
It's not if a company screws up (it WILL happen to any of them), it's how they handle it afterwards.
BCM does ship much quicker than PSA and has quicker, easier to reach CS. My experience is that both will make any problem right though.
Not implying that PSA is the same or better than BCM, but PSA puts out some good kit at great prices, if you READ the product description before you order and stick to the Premium and CHF offerings.
If prices are the same or really close, the nod goes to BCM, but when a complete PSA CHF mid-length 16" can be had for $400 or less it's hard to pass up if you're not in a hurry. When BCM was including a free BCG and muzzle device it was harder to choose, but now, it's hard to justify paying 60-70% more for the BCM.
And, no, I'm not a PSA fanboy, as I have DD and Noveske complete rifles, Colt uppers on Aero Precision lowers and a BCM BFH upper on a S&W lower myself. However I did build complete PSA rifles (w/CHF uppers) for my dad and all 4 of my kids and they are excellent, solid, accurate rifles that have had no issues, with the exception being the first PSA upper I bought for my oldest son 3-4 years ago had a canted FSB. That upper was sent back and a replacement was back in my hands in less than 2 weeks. The 2 highest round count uppers are one with 7k+ rounds and another with ~3k rounds.
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