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Posted: 5/15/2004 6:48:27 PM EDT
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Time to stop lurking and start posting. I'm new to the Black rifle thing and started out with a carbine . I've been looking for a heavy barrel ar15 for varment hunting. A customer of mine brought this dpms for me to look at. He claims it has a stainless lower. I disasmembled it for a look and the lower is heavy. More so than my Bushmaster Modular carbine lower. Has anyone seen one? He wants $700.00 for it including the Tasco scopeHopehttp://my.voyager.net/~ebgb68/DSC0038.jpg |
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DPMS Stainless lower $497.95-567.95 for a complete lower. And some people complain about how much the Colts cost. |
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I used a black DPMS stainless lower on my .458 SOCOM build for the extra weight, didn't need it so it turns out but I didn't know that at the time. I know what a 7 pound 45-70 kicks like and wanted nothing to do with that on a rifle that cannot be fitted easily with a good recoil pad. However, the brake Tony put on it made that extra pound in the lower completely unnecessary. If it is truly a stainless lower, which I have little doubt from the picture, it should have an "S" either before or after the serial number, cannot remember which right now. The complete rifle with the roughly $200 lower (stripped and retails for almost $400) sounds like a pretty good deal to me for $700. I got mine for $180 though Brownells as an 03 C&R holder and my 01 dealer transferred it for me. It went together with the RR NM lower parts kit and Tony's upper without a hitch. I also like the way it puts the weight between your hands rather than someplace else. My M15-A4 (T) was terribly out of balance with its bull barrel and it took 2.5 pounds of lead in the stock to balance it out. Talk about one heavy rifle. I am not sure how one pound in the lower would have helped balance out that rifle but really do not think it would have done much. |
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You really ought to nose around the DPMS site. Flattop Lo-Pro Silver Upper Receiver |
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Darn you beat me to it again. I couldn't find it with search so I just hit the more button over and over! Must be the way i'm wording it? Found thissilver Sorry that was the same link. |
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