Thought some of y'all would find them interesting to look at.
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.as...ver&groupid=55
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.as...ver&groupid=55
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Thought some of y'all would find them interesting to look at.
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.as...ver&groupid=55
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.as...ver&groupid=55
Looks good to me. The barrel profile is interesting. I'd like to see them offered with a standard spike's BCG, not the nickle boron.
Last edited by BudJr; 09-06-11 at 23:24.
One picture from one of the links above:
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I bought the 16" version of it, the barrel profile made sense to me, so I figured what the hell.
I'm not sold on the need to the nickel boron BCG, while it wipes clean easy enough, I don't see a significant advantage over a standard one. I would rather spend the money on mags or ammo.
I have just under 1000 rounds through mine so far, 1/2 WPA and 1/2 XM193. Accuracy is good enough for killing steel at 300, I haven't shot paper since I sighted the ACOG in. Function has been perfect so far, I'm not a cleaning Nazi, I have wiped out and relubed, hit the chamber with a brush once.
My other guns are allassembeled from BCM and Noveske parts with a factory LMT as well, I'm not usually a middle of the road buyer, I learned that lesson early on in my shooting hobby ( damn CMMG & TOS mis information ). So I was a little worried about buying this upper.
But I'm pleasantly surprised so far.
If they offer this upper without a permently attached flash hider or comp I would buy one. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen, so I think ill be getting a BCM BHF 14.5" middy instead.
Dat's alotta scratch for an upper
INSIDE PLAN OF BOX
- ROAD-RUNNER LIFTS GLASS OF WATER- PULLING UP MATCH
- MATCH SCRATCHES ON MATCH-BOX
- MATCH LIGHTS FUSE TO TNT
- BOOM!
- HA-HA!!
-WILE E. COYOTE, AUTHOR OF "EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW IN LIFE, I LEARNED FROM GOLDBERG & MURPHY"
I am American
Yea it hurt when I paid $629 for mine.
That's another reason I wish they would have went with a standard BCG or allowed a BCG delete and I could have bought a BCM group.
Yup. I'm not saying they're not worth it, it's just overkill for me personally. Same goes for the FH. Just a boring $25 A2/A2X for me thank you. I actually "splurged" on a 5C1 recently only because I couldn't find an A2X.
I wouldn't hesitate to get the middy if I did in fact want the BCG and FH it comes with . All I've seen from them is top quality parts and immaculate workmanship.
Last edited by BudJr; 09-07-11 at 13:46.
not defending spikes but that price does include the FN CHF barrel, Dynacomp, Magpul midlength HG, fancy BCG, charging handle, buffer (whatever you may think of the ST-T2 notwithstanding) and free shipping.
pricing that out against "standard" components is about $465 upgrade over a basic upper. that means they're selling the basic upper receiver group at $235 as opposed to $399 for someone else's for just the receiver, ejection port cover, standard barrel, and FSB.
if you think this is a good deal, and whether you care for the CHF barrel, Magpul, and Dynacomp upgrades, that's up to you, but the math is there...
Last edited by ra2bach; 09-07-11 at 16:59.
never push a wrench...
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