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Posted: 3/16/2017 12:04:16 AM EDT
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Yeah....TM has blems in stock for $29ea....
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Posted: 3/16/2017 12:52:45 AM EDT
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Thanks.
Link in case anyone else is interested. Since I had no idea who TM was. 
http://www.tacticalmachining.com/blemished-80-ar-15-lower.html |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 1:12:41 AM EDT
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TM is good if they are in stock... which is not always frequent.
80% AR15 lowers are almost a dime a dozen now because so many people do it. I managed to get those 15 dollar lowers from Forsaken Tactical. |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 1:20:40 AM EDT
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TM is good if they are in stock... which is not always frequent. 80% AR15 lowers are almost a dime a dozen now because so many people do it. I managed to get those 15 dollar lowers from Forsaken Tactical. Yup, I am still working on those $15 lowers a bunch of us got last year, now I also have 4 billets, and something like 9 uppers, my wife is about ready to divorce me!
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Posted: 3/16/2017 6:08:11 AM EDT
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maybe consider getting the ones that have the FIRE SAFE or bullet pictogram markings already engraved.
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Posted: 3/16/2017 2:36:03 PM EDT
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Which foundry produced the forging has very little to do with the quality of the lower. It is all about who did the machining. When you hear complaints regarding a lower (whether 80% or 100%) they always come back to machining errors not forging errors.
In other words, company A might turn that cerro forging into a work of art, while company B's machining might turn it into a problematic POS. I have not seen a problem on mil-spec receiver that could be traced back to which foundry actually hammered out the forging. |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 3:06:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/16/2017 3:54:25 PM EDT
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If you shop around the variance in prices is ridiculous.
You can find forged 80%" Lowers as high as $140.00 or as cheap as below $40.00 |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 5:21:13 PM EDT
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If you shop around the variance in prices is ridiculous. You can find forged 80%" Lowers as high as $140.00 or as cheap as below $40.00 I have a lot of Anderson Receivers and have not had any problems with any of them, they work just fine. |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 6:34:31 PM EDT
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Yeah, some of the prices I saw were ridiculous. I don't get why some 80% lowers are going for more than some regular, high quality forged lowers.
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Posted: 3/16/2017 6:35:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/16/2017 6:39:22 PM EDT
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What's the reason for getting one with the markings for Fire/Safe on them? |
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Posted: 3/16/2017 8:03:02 PM EDT
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I've bought both TM and Right to Bear Arms 80%'s and they are identical in every respect side by side, except I got the safety markings on the Right to Bear arms.
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Posted: 3/16/2017 8:33:53 PM EDT
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Just about finished a billet from Brownells. Good price, but hardest aluminum I have ever milled.
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Posted: 3/16/2017 10:09:32 PM EDT
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Yeah, some of the prices I saw were ridiculous. I don't get why some 80% lowers are going for more than some regular, high quality forged lowers. Billet has always cost more and you are paying extra for the look and because it's machined from a solid block by a CNC machine. Ive purchased over 50 different lowers from different sources. Forged ones are all the same, I feel quite confident in saying that. The billet ones obviously vary some but there is a "standard" billet style that is sold by many. It's the $50 one you can get from Daytona tactical. The cad file for it is open source, that's probably why you see that one sold by many different vendors. Frankly I wouldn't waste my money on a billet lower but YMMV. |
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