I personally would get a Spike's Tactical from AIM....

Their uppers are 479$ shipped right now and they come complete with BC, CH, and hand guards. They even include a heavy buffer...

And I added a crap sling too.

My three BCM uppers have all been kick ass uppers.

11.5"
14.5" Middy
16" Middy.

Happier than a pig in slop with them.                                                

When I finally decided to get a 16" Upper, I looked at several brands, including Spikes and RRA, before I decided on the BCM 16" Middy.  I just liked the extra quality controls that BCM puts their parts through.  Another thing that helped my decision was reading USMC03s review of the BCM Middy.  My rifle isn't an every day used item, but if I'm going to lay my money down, I want to know I used it the best I could.  It is currently attached to a CMT lower (which happens to have a Centurys Arms logo), but I am strongly considering placing an order for a BCM lower (I just hate the idea of having to move the stock and MIAD from one lower to another) so that I can reassemble my Century A2 rifle.

If I needed an off the shelf rifle for hunting I would not hesitate to buy a RRA rifle or some of the other commercial brands for that matter.  I'm more interested in military clones so its more likely I'll be buying a BCM upper before I buy anything significant from RRA.  People are digging themselves in a little too deep on this one.  Anyone who believes there is not room in the market place for both products needs to drink a beer or ten.

You may be thinking of "Filthy 14", last I checked (a post on June 14th) the BCM has over 36, 000 rounds through it.



BCM all the way, first post!





 

Good morning Iowa-JP, all.

Might want to go this route.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=504938

Filthy 14 will be the subject of a SWAT article (October 2010). At the time that was submitted it had 31,000 and change downrange. It now has 36,000 rds through it.
The saga of filthy 14 has been documented on Lightfighter with USMC03's writing.

I have 13,000 rds downrange on #31- the EAG Carbine prototype http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/BCM-M16-A4-AR15-Bravo-Company-carbine-EAG-Pat-Rogers-s/151.htm

We have multiple Bravo Company guns in the armory, and have a lot of rounds downrangewith them, several of which have between 10,000- 20,000 rds.
I  have confidence in their guns (as i do other makers guns)
Bravo Company is among the list of guns that i recommend (among others).

The mission drives the gear train.

Determine what that mission is and than buy the best you can with available funds.
Then seek the best training available.
And when you are finished, train some more.

Very nice.

Except I run my light on R side.
Cant get use to the left. But thats all me


btw is that 14.5

Cant wait to read all about it !
Thanks for posting here at AR15.com

I was lucky enough to finger a couple of these last week. Very very nice set-up.

Speaking of pigs and slop. We drove an ATV across a previously clear, shallow waterhole in the trail that hogs had
widened and had turned into a red, septic, wallow. We didn't realize this until we started to cross and smelled it.
We also didn't know they deepened it and the ATV turned on it's side dumping everything including my RRA muzzle first into it and then the ATV rested on top where it stayed until we could hike back to a backhoe and pull it out.
We couldn't get a side pull to right it first because it was a narrow trail through cedars so we had to drag it straight back
on it's side and across my poor carbine. After we got it out I had to strip off and wade out in the putrid slop and feel for my gun with my toes which was imbedded in the bottom. I ended up having to take a bath in the nearby Pedernales River
and then breaking my AR into halves and dunking it too as we both stunk. I had to take a cleaning rod to poke the mud/hogshit paste out of the clogged bore and lay everything in some rapids to let the water run through it.
It was getting late and I was holding up the hog hunt so hit it with some CLP and put it back together and made a long headshot on a hog later that evening. A buddy that was using a scoped Colt said driving home he 'wouldn't mind having one (Rock River) as a beater/truck gun'.


Maybe I would bond better with my14.5  BCM if I got a BCM lower and used it's current RRA lower for another Rocky.
As Carl Mauldin told Steve McQueen in Nevada Smith, '...if there's one thing I can't stand it's a half breed."



     

"Very nice.

Except I run my light on R side.
Cant get use to the left. But thats all me


btw is that 14.5 "
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You can place the light where ever you want to. We keep it there due to the way we run our guns and the integration of other mission essential equipment.
The full list of what comes with it- to include the $200 training credit- is on the link provided.

Yeah
I was aware I could place my light any place on a rail .Matter of fact Ive had it in a few diferent spots.
I`m also aware how you guys shoot. I read all your articles [:)

I wish my first carbine came with all that!
The 200 training credit IS ALSO GREAT!!!

II Do you eat wild boar?

Roger. The gun is useless without training, and that $200 credit is 1/3 of a class. Not bad..

Dude, as it may be a cool story, that is extremely hard to read.

HEB has reading glasses for about twelve bucks.

Oh,yeah. Wild hog smoked link sausage is gourmet fare as well as bar b q thats slow smoked.

We're infested with hogs and a game warden on the neighboring ranch wages war on them with his AR. He said 'I don't care where I hit em', fuck'um.'
One crisp morning I was sitting in the deer blind and the usual shots from the surrounding hills were were broken up by wham, wham, wham, whop, whop, wham, wham. A pack of hogs must have stepped out and he had a belly full of them.

BCM because of their BCG and 1-7" twist.  

The RRA SS 1-8" guns/barrels have interested me though, although I would probably buy just a upper and assemble a rifle myself.

Huh. That would make it the longest month I've ever experienced.

I'm about as sick of hearing the term "flavor of the month" as I am of hearing "fit and finish."  It's just something people that have no clue say when they have nothing valuable to add to a discussion.

+1.  I feel the same way about the term "koolaid".