
Originally Posted by
SwatDawg15
Very good point..
On the flip side...most of us do the same thing that car guys do. They buy a good car from the lot, then modify it to suit their needs. If all you want is a red Corvette to drive on the weekends with the top down (insert DPMS here) then you just stay with what you can afford. But if you want something that is able to turn corners, go fast, burn tires and hold its own on a road course (insert Colt, Noveske, etc here) then you buy a red Ferrari and modify it to your standards and your budget.
Not everyone here is a Delta operator who needs to sling bodies 24/7. Some people are fine simply owning a target rifle.
Some rifles are hot shit coming right out of the box, and some are just enough to punch holes in paper. It's personal needs/wants that makes them what they are. I'm tired of hearing "If you don't own a Colt with an Aimpoint and PMAGs, your rifle sucks" on this board. Everyone needs to realize that people have different circumstances, budgets, and desires when it comes to the AR platform.
People come to this forum because it holds, quite possible, the best plethora of accurate information on the Internet regarding our beloved rifles. Lets try not to put people and their rifles in a certain category because of who made the parts.
Personally, I have a BM carbine that started out stock, but I've fixed and/or replaced a lot of the parts that needed replacing in order to make it run more reliably:
Colt BCG with proper staking
Upgraded extractor with black insert
H-buffer
DD Omega 7.0
lots of PMAGs
Castle nut staking
Eotech
etc....
Is it still a BM? Yes. Thats what it says on the lower. Does it suck? No, I don't think so. It does exactly what I need it to do with few hic-ups...3 gun matches. In fact, I'll put it against a Colt or a Noveske any day. Oh, and did I pay >$2k for it?
No.... I modified an already proven design, and I take pride in what I've created. Built rather than bought.
Nobody likes to be told that something they took pride in making sucks. Lets be a little more sympathetic to those who are proud of what they have, but still have the desire to make it better. Lets offer more advice and less criticism. We at M4C pride ourselves at being above TOS, but when we get into bashing rifles because of who made them, we're lowering ourselves to their level.
Last edited by citizensoldier16; 04-26-09 at 17:54.
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