Goober said:
Any prefs among you regarding a civ market M4/CAR-15? Any diffs in the Colt vice, say a Bushmaster aside from price? I'm not in the market to buy just yet, but I am looking around for the hell of it in the meantime. Just surveying the crowd...
Some purists argue always go with the ABCs.... Armalite, Bushmaster, and Colt. That being said, both my AR-15s... the 20" A2 and 16" M-4 are of great quality and I built them myself using parts kits. Rock River Arms is a good name to look at. If I were you, I would head over to
www.ar15.com and ask around... very very very knowledgeable group of people.
I'd go with Bushmaster... Colt is overpriced and sometimes they do stupid things like use non-standard parts. They did that with their AR-15s in the 80s to please the anti-gun crowd.
Edited to say: Damn, Chuck beat me to it!
My AR-15 20" A2 is built off a Rock River Arms lower receiver using a kit from J&T Distributing.
My AR-15 16" M-4 is built off a Ameetec Arms lower receiver using a kit from Model 1 Sales.
Building is a GREAT way to learn the internals of how the AR-15 operates.