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Posted: 9/30/2016 9:43:00 PM EDT
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Hey everyone - working on my AR build, I am wanting to get a complete upper, but my budget is tight since the wife and I are expecting our first child.
Any recommendations or what to look for even used? I'd like to stay $500-600 that way I can get amm, pmags and other toys. Thanks. |
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Andro Corp upper
Andro Corp uppers come complete with BCG and CH. Ready to go. They have and excellent reputation. To get these prices you have to email the OP from your ARFCOM email, and pay through PP friends and family. I bought a 10.5" upper from them and it was perfect. The price was $460 from the website and $350 through ARFCOM. Very fast to reply and had it in my hands in 3 days. ETA: the link was just an example, they have a ton of different option, look around EE. |
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Sounds like you want a "pin together" project rather than a "build".
I recommend a PSA blem lower with magpul furniture if you need a lower. I also recommend a PSA upper with a FF rail, specifically a midlength (lw or govt bbl). Too many AR owners buy a basic upper just to later modify it and install a rail. A complete package costs less than $600. $170+ trsf http://palmettostatearmory.com/blem-psa-ar15-moe-ept-lower-black.html $370 Complete upper includes bcg & ch http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-16-midlength-melonite-5-56-nato-1-7-slim-13-5-m-lok-an.html add sights |
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Sounds like you want a "pin together" project rather than a "build". I recommend a PSA blem lower with magpul furniture if you need a lower. I also recommend a PSA upper with a FF rail, specifically a midlength (lw or govt bbl). Too many AR owners buy a basic upper just to later modify it and install a rail. A complete package costs less than $600. $170+ trsf http://palmettostatearmory.com/blem-psa-ar15-moe-ept-lower-black.html $370 Complete upper includes bcg & ch http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-16-midlength-melonite-5-56-nato-1-7-slim-13-5-m-lok-an.html add sights I got this upper last week and took it to the range today. Nice and light, a couple guys I shoot with tried it out and are going to look at them now as well. |
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I got this upper last week and took it to the range today. Nice and light, a couple guys I shoot with tried it out and are going to look at them now as well. Quoted:
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Sounds like you want a "pin together" project rather than a "build". I recommend a PSA blem lower with magpul furniture if you need a lower. I also recommend a PSA upper with a FF rail, specifically a midlength (lw or govt bbl). Too many AR owners buy a basic upper just to later modify it and install a rail. A complete package costs less than $600. $170+ trsf http://palmettostatearmory.com/blem-psa-ar15-moe-ept-lower-black.html $370 Complete upper includes bcg & ch http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-16-midlength-melonite-5-56-nato-1-7-slim-13-5-m-lok-an.html add sights I got this upper last week and took it to the range today. Nice and light, a couple guys I shoot with tried it out and are going to look at them now as well. Have you weighed the upper or the whole carbine? I have been interested in getting one of those for a lightweight budget build, but was curius how much less it weighs than a standard M4 upper. |
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Hey everyone - working on my AR build, I am wanting to get a complete upper, but my budget is tight since the wife and I are expecting our first child. Any recommendations or what to look for even used? I'd like to stay $500-600 that way I can get amm, pmags and other toys. Thanks. There are Colt LE uppers on the EE in that price range quite often.Just gotta watch. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_7_22/1588088_WTS__Colt_6720_upper_with_BCG__16_pencil_barrel__M4_receiver__.html http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_7_22/1589366_WTS___Colt_LE6920__upper_Barrel_stamp_1_16.html |
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Have you weighed the upper or the whole carbine? I have been interested in getting one of those for a lightweight budget build, but was curius how much less it weighs than a standard M4 upper. Quoted:
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Sounds like you want a "pin together" project rather than a "build". I recommend a PSA blem lower with magpul furniture if you need a lower. I also recommend a PSA upper with a FF rail, specifically a midlength (lw or govt bbl). Too many AR owners buy a basic upper just to later modify it and install a rail. A complete package costs less than $600. $170+ trsf http://palmettostatearmory.com/blem-psa-ar15-moe-ept-lower-black.html $370 Complete upper includes bcg & ch http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-16-midlength-melonite-5-56-nato-1-7-slim-13-5-m-lok-an.html add sights I got this upper last week and took it to the range today. Nice and light, a couple guys I shoot with tried it out and are going to look at them now as well. Have you weighed the upper or the whole carbine? I have been interested in getting one of those for a lightweight budget build, but was curius how much less it weighs than a standard M4 upper. I haven't but I will when I'm back home next week. |
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Lots of options and PSA is always good to go.
It also depends on what you may want to do with it afterward regarding resale. Certain brand names will sell to a larger market down the road and name recognition will always help get close to your asking price at a later date if you plan to sell it. A large market of buyers might not know the "builder brands" but google searches and gun store owners know the bigger players in the industry. It depends on what you want to build and barrel length, rails, handguard and sites are always where $ adds up. I've put some Spikes lowers together and waited for the Spikes LE M4 complete upper to go on sale at PA and when they have the sale I jumped on it . A complete in the box Spikes M4-LE goes for around $1000.00.. A full Spike LE M4 upper can be found on sale for $460.00 with M-16 BCG. You put them together and you have a full Spikes AR that is much easier to sell than a mix matched upper and lower. All of it is under the Spikes warranty. If you are really stealthy you can find a complete Spikes lower at a very reasonable price and find the LE M4 upper on sale and save big time. Just push two pins in and you are ready to roll. |
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I personally would stay away from PSA...just my experience. Lousy customer service & slow shipping...in my instances.
Check out Legal Transfers here for Rock River uppers, great prices Jason & Josh at Andro are great & have some great quality hardware. Windham, Anderson,Spikes also have very fairly priced hardware as well. BCM is probably the best of them all though...My opinion |
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I personally would stay away from PSA...just my experience customer service & slow shipping...in my instances. Check out Legal Transfers here for Rock River uppers, great prices Jason & Josh at Andro are great & have some great quality hardware. Windham, Anderson,Spikes also have very fairly priced hardware as well. BCM is probably the best of them all though...My opinion I just ordered an upper for my nephew from PSA last Wed. And it showed up Monday this week. Above expectations for a budget upper. Customer service and ship times have improved greatly. Check out their industry forum here. |
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I just ordered an upper for my nephew from PSA last Wed. And it showed up Monday this week. Above expectations for a budget upper. Customer service and ship times have improved greatly. Check out their industry forum here. Quoted:
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I personally would stay away from PSA...just my experience customer service & slow shipping...in my instances. Check out Legal Transfers here for Rock River uppers, great prices Jason & Josh at Andro are great & have some great quality hardware. Windham, Anderson,Spikes also have very fairly priced hardware as well. BCM is probably the best of them all though...My opinion I just ordered an upper for my nephew from PSA last Wed. And it showed up Monday this week. Above expectations for a budget upper. Customer service and ship times have improved greatly. Check out their industry forum here. I just ordered an upper that I've been waiting to come back in stock for a while now. Ordered it Thursday. Got an email on Friday saying it shipped. Tracking number says it should be here on Monday. This was my first order with PSA, so I am pretty satisfied so far. What's your guys opinion on this one? http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-7-5-56-nato-1-7-marauder-pistol-upper-no-bcg-or-ch.html The flash can looks a little too fancy. MOE hand guard is kinda my style, though. |
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I just ordered an upper for my nephew from PSA last Wed. And it showed up Monday this week. Above expectations for a budget upper. Customer service and ship times have improved greatly. Check out their industry forum here. Quoted:
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I personally would stay away from PSA...just my experience customer service & slow shipping...in my instances. Check out Legal Transfers here for Rock River uppers, great prices Jason & Josh at Andro are great & have some great quality hardware. Windham, Anderson,Spikes also have very fairly priced hardware as well. BCM is probably the best of them all though...My opinion I just ordered an upper for my nephew from PSA last Wed. And it showed up Monday this week. Above expectations for a budget upper. Customer service and ship times have improved greatly. Check out their industry forum here. Yeah PSA has GREATLY improved their shipping and customer service game over the last few months. They used to ship whenever they got around to it, generally at least a week or more. But lately they're shipping the next day with fast shipping. I think they'll probably become even more popular than they were before running the way they are now. I don't understand why anybody would knock them either. They make an excellent product and even put out premium products that I believe are just as good as the big name guys. Like their uppers that come with FN made barrels or their premium BCG's that come heavily staked and include an HPT and MPI bolt. |
| I just ordered two of the Midlength Mock Dissipator Mag-pull Rifle Kits from Palmetto State Armory. I think someone messed up and listed them for 379.00. Which is why i bought TWO! No less than 15 min later they were "Out of stock" and another 15 min they were back listed at 559.00. They shipped within three days and should be here Wednesday. |
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Lots of choices at MAS Defense and you can customize some as well. I got a 16" and a 10.5 from them this year. Just got the 10.5 last week. One week from order to my front door, NC to PA. http://www.shop.masdefense.com/main.sc I can vouch for these guys. I've seen 10+ barreled uppers and all shot perfectly and were probably the cleanest upper assembly jobs I've ever seen. |
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