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Thread: Where are the 14.5" M4 barrels with FSBs these days?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kirkland View Post
    Wow, this thread just hopped on board the failboat. To the OP, I bought a standard 14.5 M4 Colt barrel from scottyryan a while back, he's got a gunbroker page and it was a fair price. Not sure if he still sells them or not, but it would be worth checking out. Every Colt part I've bought from Arms Unlimited has been GTG. PSA is a far cry from BCM.
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    Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kirkland View Post
    PSA is a far cry from BCM.
    Are you bacing this off of actual real experiencs or was it from what the poeple on the internet have told you?
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    I don’t consider BCM anything near “hobby grade” or PSA, but Molon does have a thread or two here where Colt barrels regularly outshoot many others, to include Noveske and BCM IIRC.


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    Quote Originally Posted by docsherm View Post
    Are you bacing this off of actual real experiencs or was it from what the poeple on the internet have told you?
    I've got two BCM carbines that get used on a regular basis. Never had a lick of trouble out of either of them. Both have SOCOM barrels, and the only thing I have read is that BCM barrels tend to not be quite as accurate as the corresponding Colt barrel. I've never heard them referred to as "hobby grade" before.

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    In a world where Colt SOCOM barrels regularly shoot sub-moa, why is anyone even asking after what 14.5 FSB barrel to get? Just find a Colt SOCOM and drive on. And if the BCM barrel is outshot by the corresponding Colt barrel, that may be a basis for hobbygrade.

    Correction. Colt, along with Daniel Defense barrels, are issued to face shooters; everything else is hobby grade. Thems the breaks.
    Last edited by noonesshowmonkey; 06-18-18 at 14:42. Reason: clarity

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    Quote Originally Posted by docsherm View Post
    Are you bacing this off of actual real experiencs or was it from what the poeple on the internet have told you?
    PSA has a run of 14.7" CHF barrelled uppers right now. Anyone would be hard pressed to put together a completed upper with an M-Lok rail for anything less than what you'd be paying for it from PSA. Check the torque specs on things, then burn some ammo with it and check the groups. I imagine that you'd end up with a shooter.

    I don't own any PSA complete rifles, but I'd not hesitate to do so if I wanted an extra rifle laying around and I couldn't find a cheap 6920. I do have a PSA complete pistol lower, and it was in perfect working order. I needed to unwind the mag release a little, as it was on rather tight and wouldn't drop Pmag M3s, but that took me what? A few dry run mag changes, a punch, and three turns of the mag release to fix?
    Last edited by noonesshowmonkey; 06-18-18 at 14:39. Reason: PSA lower

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Goodtimes View Post
    Also better than BCM and other similar hobby grade brands.
    Have I missed something? BCM meets the TDP. Is the TDP no longer good enough?
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    Quote Originally Posted by noonesshowmonkey View Post
    In a world where Colt SOCOM barrels regularly shoot sub-moa, why is anyone even asking after what 14.5 FSB barrel to get? Just find a Colt SOCOM and drive on. And if the BCM barrel is outshot by the corresponding Colt barrel, that may be a basis for hobbygrade.

    Correction. Colt, along with Daniel Defense barrels, are issued to face shooters; everything else is hobby grade. Thems the breaks.
    Are we talking ‘grade’ or brand?
    Is KAC hobby grade?

    Disclaimer: kind of a stupid word debate imo, but curious on your qualifiers..
    in my limited experience is that bcm>psa. (2samples bcm, 1 sample psa).

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