
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..
there's a lot of people come around and post something to the effect of "i bought this DPMS last month, signed up here, and learned that it's not the greatest of choices, so i'm _________ (getting rid of it, fixing it up, etc)..."
this isn't at all a ripfest on you or your weapon. i'm just interested to know WHY you chose the weapon that you did, before you knew- what research did you do? how available was information? did you have problems finding information? did you get recommendations from people? what web-sources did you investigate? books that you read? etc.
back when i first started out in the AR world, information was nill. there were a few books out, but they focused on function, shooting, cleaning, stripping, etc- there wasn't really anything out with great technical information. furthermore, there wasn't 1/20th of the selection to chose from- more often than not, if you couldn't afford/could find colt parts, you were left with no-name gunshow parts or Quality Parts Inc (bushmaster) parts- which were actually, next to colt, the only manufacturer with a name that put any degree of quality control into their processes. My first build was a ban-compliant attempt at a carbine, and it was about 50% bushmaster, with a few colt parts and the rest were unknown origin. if i were to have purchased a complete gun, it would have been an Armalite or Bushmaster, I'm sure. fortunately, i did get a little inside information from a gunsmith i'd met at a gun show, and assembled something pretty decent. i'm just curious as to how much has changed, what the word is on the streetz, etc. so share your story, por favor.
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