Originally Posted by
Devildawg2531
I don't understand the logic of buying cheap AR's or assembling from cheap parts. There are many great choices from proven quality manufacturers and they cost within $600 of the junk Franken guns. Doesn't make sense to me to buy build cheap and have a garbage gun vs spend a little more and have quality. I have 3 quality AR's and they are almost 100% reliable... A buddy of mine just got a pistol AR from PSA and I'm curious to shoot his and compare it with my BCM pistol AR
I think you might be missing the DIY gene. Seriously, to me that is one of the allures of the AR - anyone with basic tools and even a little mechanical skill can build/assemble one. I've built and gifted AR's to my sons, and a couple grandsons. They all work just fine, largely because I use good parts.
I think the fact that I ask the recipients what they want in terms of floated or FSB, length and colors make the Dad/Grandpa guns more of a family heirloom then a 'Grandpa bought me this gun' would have.
I don't really save any money putting these together, but I feel they have performed either better than or 'just as good' as more expensive rifles - largely due to the attention I pay to the upper's components and assembly. I lap the receiver, primarily use GM barrels, Toolcraft C-153 bolts, pin the Geissele gas blocks and hit the lower end of the torque spec on the barrel nut. The results have always been reliable and more than accurate enough for hunting, training and plinking.
I've also got a couple of PSA uppers - a stainless mid-length M4orgery which is my favorite FSB rifle to shoot, a 10.5in FSB because it looks cool, and a 8in .22LR upper that gets the shit shot out of it. The stainless mid-length is a legit 1.5-2moa rifle, shoots better than another name brand FSB carbine-length upper I have, pretty sure I paid $159 or $199 for the PSA w/o BCG.
Just my take.
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.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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