To those of you who have issues with Olympic Arms..I would be more than happy to address them here or feel free to call one of our reps if anybody has any questions.
First of all, I've only heard of three broken bolts in the six months I've worked here. Two of them failed due to bad reloads that the customers used, the other was undeterminable. We back up our rifles and parts with a LIFETIME warrantee against manufacturer defect. (Idaho-AR15...if you send that bolt back to us, we will replace it free of charge.)
I'm not going to come on here and rip on other manufacturers. Also, I'm not on a commission-sales basis either so my post here is just to get the facts on the table.
We don't make "cheap" rifles either, we are able to keep our costs down by making our own barrels, receivers, bolts/carriers, and all major componants right here in one place. Also, we don't spend a huge amount of money on advertising...as cocky as this may sound, word of mouth usually does the advertising for us.
When comparing us to other brands, make sure you are comparing apples to apples. It wouldn't be fair to take one of our standard h-bar rifles and say it's not as good as somebody else's "super high-speed sniper" models. We do make an UltraMatch barrel for some of our PCRs, guaranteed to hit 1/4" groups at 100yrds (granted you are using the right ammo/grain for the twist in the barrel, you aren't target shooting in 60mph crosswinds, and you didn't drink a pot of coffee before you left for the range.)
Anyway, here's a thread you might want to check out:
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=61988Curt
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