Right now I am debating on replacing my lower. I built my lower in the middle of the 2009 post election panic. At the time the only LPK that I could find was DPMS. At first the gun was just meant as a fun gun and not for home defense / hard use gun. However, over the years my i have been setting up my AR for home defense by getting a Bravo upper, aimpoint, decent BCG, etc.... Right now the rifle functions as it should however, knowing the lack of quality that DPMS puts into their products I wonder if I can really trust the LPK. With the price of the cosmetic blem BCM lowers I wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade to a lower with a better part kit?


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I have a dpms lower that I used in a "budget build" and the receiver itself seems as good as any, I also used a dpms lpk that eventually I swapped out the fcg with a spikes battle trigger not that I had problems with the dpms fcg, it actually wasnt that bad but I had a matching NiB bolt in the upper to go with it, eventually the "budget build" got upgraded if only in price and unnecessary things haha no it is functional. 3200 rounds later the dpms receiver and lower parts minus swapped out fcg are functioning as well as the other lpk's but that still doesnt mean dpms is overall of the same quality and certainly not the same QC standards of other reputable manf.

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