
Originally Posted by
3ACR_Scout
I have one too that I bought in Nov or Dec '04, right after the sunset, and to be blunt, it turned me off from ARs for about 8 years. It functioned fine, but it was obviously not as well made as the Colts that I was used to in the military (I had just returned from Iraq and turned in my M4, so it was a pretty direct comparison). The BCG was staked properly, but not the castle nut, and the buffer tube / BCG sounded like they were filled with sand when I pulled the charging handle back. I replaced the RE with a milspec LMT and SOPMOD stock and added a KAC RAS, but after about 1000 rounds, I put it away and focused on pistols for a long time. It wasn't til around 2012 that I discovered BCM and got interested in ARs again. At this point, I'm trying to decide if I should rebuild the Bushmaster with a Colt LPK and maybe a new BCM upper, or if I should just leave it as is and use it as a range beater when the kids get older.
Dave
Personally don't know many commercial rifles that stake their castle nuts, but my Bushmaster's BCG wasn't staked worth a damn, and nowhere near that of my BCMs.
As far as yours, I keep mine because it was my first AR and I like using it as an example of why you don't buy commercial rifles, so I have a valid use in my mind for it and well, it makes a neat and fun range toy since it looks retro now. I do not personally see the point in pouring money into a Bushmaster though, while I have toyed with replacing the internals on mine, or a BCM upper on it, it comes down for a couple or three hundred more I could basically build or buy a rifle of known quality new, like a BCM or Colt.
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