
Originally Posted by
bkb0000
I'm interested to hear short stories of why people chose to buy lesser-quality weapons- bush, DPMS, oly, RRA, etc..
My first rifle is an RRA 16" middy upper on a Superior Arms lower with an Anvil Arms LPK a Magpul MIAD, and an A1 stock. The complete upper and lower receivers were all part of a group buy through another website; price-wise, they were and still are a great deal. The LPK was because it was available, and I didn't want DPMS parts (I didn't trust them, though I couldn't tell you why). I've learned a lot about the nuts and bolts functioning of the AR in the year since I stepped into the group buy to get those parts. I don't believe my rifle is crap, far from it, but I could certainly have done better for not much more money. At the time, I was less informed about what was better, why, and where I could get it.
Pat Rogers told me that "experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." I plan on using this rifle as a learning experience to get intimately familiar with the AR, and using that experience to make more informed future decisions about ARs.
-B
Last edited by BAC; 07-01-09 at 20:30.
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