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    New Frontier/ Polymer lowers?

    Any of you guys running a polymer lower, such as a new frontier or plum crazy. The only reason I ask is one of the shops I go to is selling the new frontier lowers like crazy, even the fire control group is polymer, hammer and all. I just wondering if any has or had one or seen run hard. I tried the search but didn’t come up with anything.

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    A brief search reveals this:

    https://www.m4carbine.net/search.php?searchid=3995821

    Plum Crazy and other polymer lowers are not well regarded, nor long-lived.

    And no, I have never owned one.

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    Polymer Lowers

    https://www.m4carbine.net/archive/in...p/t-81081.html

    There are also links to this topic in the thread above.

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    Are you looking to save weight?

    If so, there are other ways to do that. Robb Jensen and rob_s have several excellent threads on building a highly durable and lightweight carbine. You might search their posts.

    Sadly, it's not a Glock. I'd save my polymer for my pistols, rather than my AR-family of carbines.

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    New Frontier has a thread at the THR site soliciting folks about their new lower which is supposed to sell for $99. They also said these lowers are for "casual" use. I sent them an email and told them I'd take a lower for $99 and would put it to honest use, that I would give them a chance to resolve any problems before posting about them on the internet and I would share my findings with them and post on M4carbine. While they said they'd be contacting certain members about getting lowers to test, I never got a response from them.

    I figure I'd not worry about it and spend my time on other projects
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    I just ordered one. I'll be using it on a lightweight hunting rifle I'm building. Lifetime warranty, and there youtube video's seem pretty convincing if you ask me.

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    the Cavalry Arms lower with integrated stock is much better if you want to reduce weight

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    Lifetime warranty is great unless they go under. Let us know how it works out for you.

    Quote Originally Posted by JCPerson11 View Post
    I just ordered one. I'll be using it on a lightweight hunting rifle I'm building. Lifetime warranty, and there youtube video's seem pretty convincing if you ask me.



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    I can see using it for a dedicated .22 upper maybe. But I think you can get a complete .22 AR for less than the cost of that lower and another upper.
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    I am not interested in them. I hadn’t even heard of such a thing, I guess I am behind the curve on this one. The weight of an AR is a non-issue to me at this point. I was just in the shop the other day looking around and I bet he sold three of the things and I hadn’t even heard of a polymer lower. Apparently I also need to brush up on my use of the search button

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