I have been now active for 2 years now of owning a AR, but shooting much longer then that in youth and continuing military service, so far in the recesses of what have been a positive experience it never ceases to amaze me the most disgusting part of this culture is the utter price hike on nomenclature for rifles.
I cannot vouch for polymer grips such as TangoDown at 60USD HA!! or so called name brand so and so and how there products are worth the high end price tag which Daniel Defense is known for.
I think the biggest crooks on this tend to be the Flip up Iron sights... *100 dollars a piece NOT EVEN A SET!! and Aimpoint on there Microdot T1.. $633USD really... really $633 USD... :-/
Dont even get me started on the whole next gen rifle systems.. ACRs 2300 to 2600 that cant even really see an advantage over the AR thats almost 1200 USD less which they are not considering the standard consumer market. But im not here to get off topic..
What almost is even more scary is if the military touches it and adopts it, this is gold standard and if anything else typically comes along to compete against it, it must be crap or begs to be questioned on its durability until proven and every arm chair ranger will vouch against a product that has not been military adopted, not saying all that they adopt is bad but if another brand name makes something similar it must be bad until proven...
So what does a company do, say like BCM gets a article in some magazine that shows how great there product is with merit the 30k dirty rifle, now we have a standard if you build a rifle this way and spend this much youll get this quality and what do they do with every purchase from BCM I get this article flyer.. :-/
However the novel idea with this niche is now that were known not to make crap lets charge a ridiculous amount of cash for the product the consumer will want and never lower the price on the product because people will pay for what the military uses in a nice lil cloned packaged.
I think that I must give credit where credit is do and merit for what has been proven in combat and test after test in real life missions.
But I grow tired of the over priced items and seeing catalogs after catalog of online vendors over charging the consumer end way overpriced products that dont hold a value to the price they are offering.
Really I have to say its been the biggest turn off of shooting, that the name brand companies are producing a market of high dollar products and the mind set the rifle community must buy into..




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