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    luckily I live right next to Fort Bragg, NC. A lot of shops operated by ex-spec ops and very expirenced armorors. A lot of bad shops too .... but just gotta find the good ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jpr8771 View Post
    ...so anyways i run up to the gun shop to try and buy some loctite...dude sends me to the gunsmith in the next door down...so i meet the dude...really nice guy...he persists on telling me how bad the set up of the troy sight is...so i just wear it...again because he is a nice guy...so now i have had two insults on my set up...the next insult comes when he asks me who makes my rifle....he had never heard of bcm...i wanted to be honest and i told him that i had no experience with the platform and had bought the gun from what i had read and researched on m4carbine.net...from YOU guys! ha...of course he had never heard of the website....not a fault by any means...he was an old dude...so he goes on to tell me not to believe everything i read.

    so im headed towards insult number 3....he proceeds to show me the rifles he designs and sells...the heaviest ARs every....rock river arms and DPMS...so by now im chuckling inside...he shows me this rock river with stainless barrel...it had one of those foregrips on it that are solid metal and heavy? dont know what they are called? like the one on the shootrite katana...
    I know exactlyhow you feel.
    I recently traded off my my 'old' AR for one from Daniel Defense. And of course you have everyone ask you a bazillion questions about why you would dump a "perfectly good" rifle for one that costs twice as much. So I did the best I could telling them all the stuff I had learned pertaining to why I would do so. Wouldn't you know- I get the thing and it has a couple issues. And immediately I got the "thought you said this was a better company har-de-har" line. What can you do...

    And I have a neighbor who builds ARs- but he's rather obsessed with quantity over quality. He proceeded to show me his "top of the line" rifle- his weighed a ton too!

    Out of the 7 gunshops within 2+/- hours of me, two I will never step foot in again, unless they're standing at the door handing out free guns. And three of the others only as a last resort.

    Anyway-
    I'm glad someone posted this as I was about to myself. Good to have a heads up about the 'smithing classes too.
    At least I know I'm not to bad off- VA Arms is *only* about 4 hours away.
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    I have a dealer/friend that started up about two years ago and I have been trying to lead him down the road of AR knowledge but he seems to keep hitting speed bumps. I went in today and noticed an old RRA A2 ban era(no logo on lower just lettering) hanging on the wall above the shotguns- 799.00 on the tag. I pull it down because I can't resist and the only other AR in the shop is a CMMG 6.8. He instantly tells me if I know someone who could use it he would take 600.00 for it. So before even looking I ask him why so cheap (his AR prices run around a grand for the right side of the chart names). He says look at the FSB- someone had lopped it off because they had a carry handle scope mount and apparently thought the front sight was still in the way. The dealer goes on to tell me that the seller had brought it in a couple times to trade and he had refused but, apparently the third time was the charm after the seller had re-attached the top part of the FSB with epoxy.
    So I am trying to figure who is the dumber of the two- the guy who re-attached the upper part of the FSB with epoxy or the dealer who actually took it in on trade.
    I would wager I'll have that rifle here eventually making into some other fuddable configuration so he can actually sell it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ohiorifleman View Post
    ... the seller had re-attached the top part of the FSB with epoxy.
    So I am trying to figure who is the dumber of the two- the guy who re-attached the upper part of the FSB with epoxy or the dealer who actually took it in on trade.
    I would wager I'll have that rifle here eventually making into some other fuddable configuration so he can actually sell it.
    Stop it ! You're killing me !
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