I'm writing this as a followup to a post I wrote this morning talking about the Canadian AR market.
I am really hoping this is not going to be a slagfest thread. That's not what I'm shooting for at all. I am a believer in upper tier ARs and not at all one of the "My OLY is as good as your COLT!" people.
But what I am wondering is, just how much is that upper tier worth to all of you?
For example:
In the US, ARs are pretty cheap. Up here, they're MUCH more expensive and the spread is huge. So what if your price spread was very different than it is?
Imagine that a Bushmaster was $1000, and a Colt was $3000. Would you still buy the Colt? Or would you be thinking that a well staked BM was starting to look pretty attractive?
Imagine these were your options and this was the pricing for base models:
Imperial Defense UK $900
Armalite, Bushmaster, Stag, CMMG $1500
S&W MP15 $1700
Sabre $1800
Daniel Defense $2000
LMT $2500
Colt $3000
I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this; everybody has a different set of demands and a different budget. I would always rather have one of the last 3 on the list, but I am wondering if you would all pay the extra thousand or two dollars for the upper tier, or would you buy a known-quantitiy mid-tier like CMMG and tweak it with a new BCG and do some staking on your home workbench?


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