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Posted: 8/5/2017 7:34:40 PM EDT
I looked up a few prices today and didn't see any price drop. Shouldn't everyone offer 3 lowers for a $100 by now? :-)
I see both PSA and Anderson lowers are actually the same price as before the election. :-( |
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Anderson lowers have been on sale for $30 several times in the past couple months. Aero Precision lowers are <$50 a handful of places. PSA lowers were $50 last time I looked at them.
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Anderson lowers have been on sale for $30 several times in the past couple months. Aero Precision lowers are <$50 a handful of places. PSA lowers were $50 last time I looked at them. View Quote |
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I bought mine at the $29.99 price tag. Got them built already. Need a sale again. Andersons have been great for me. No problems at all. Good Shooting
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AR stuff has gotten so cheap I've bought not one but one and a half in the past two weeks. And I haven't owned an AR since George Bush the First was in office.
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I started building in 2011, and the drop in lower prices is considerable. For a long time it was like all the manufacturers had a price fixing agreement to not go below $85-$95, and you paid even more for a well established or mainstream maker's roll marks.
I find it amusing that I can find complete lowers cheaper than most 80% lowers. |
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I don't know about powers, but LOWERS have certainly gotten cheaper. Andersons for $29.99 twice in the last month or two (picked up 3 for $99.50 including shipping), Aero's for $48.99 right now, Spikes could be had for $65 a few weeks back.... PSA lowers have ALWAYS been about $49.99-$59.99 (they really didn't gouge people like others did)... the other brands are still holding out for some reason, but there is good deals to be had. View Quote |
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Ap's at 50 a wack...really can't beat that. Buy a couple extra to keep aside for a rainy day
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If making a FFL transfer is the fee for each lower or if person purchased 3 for example is it only one transfer fee?
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If making a FFL transfer is the fee for each lower or if person purchased 3 for example is it only one transfer fee? View Quote |
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There's a couple of shops in my area that charge $40 the initial transfer. Seems silly paying the same or more for the transfer than the lower itself.
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and Brownells has Aero Precision Gen 2's for $39.99... that's almost unbeatable.
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and Brownells has Aero Precision Gen 2's for $39.99... that's almost unbeatable. View Quote https://gun.deals/content/brownells?view=list |
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It is beatable. Use a Brownell's coupon code. :D https://gun.deals/content/brownells?view=list View Quote |
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Why? I'm pretty sure early m16s had 6061 lowers View Quote heck, runner runner guns has American Pride blem's on sale for $29.99 with free shipping if you order 2 or more http://www.runnerrunnerguns.com/product_p/ffl-ap-f-blem.htm?CartID=1 |
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I just paid 65 for an Anderson. I figured I could spend an extra $10 to support a local business.
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Makes me wonder why they switched over to 7075. There were also receivers cast from AL380, and you don't see many of those any more. View Quote |
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I bought mine at the $29.99 price tag. Got them built already. Need a sale again. Andersons have been great for me. No problems at all. Good Shooting View Quote |
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Man all my favorite LGS are still hiking prices on stripped lowers. Spikes are about $100 before tax ect, paid $150 for one a little over a year ago. In November ish I paid $130 for a Kinetic, wanted to get one just in case Clinton got elected.
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Prices of lowers in gun shops depend on how many and how often they sell. Shops that sell lowers (and other items) as soon as they come in can sell then at lower margins than those who have stock sitting on shelves for long periods of time.
Also, consider some manufacturers advertise a higher msrp to help dealers make some profit on their items. |
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3 for 90? View Quote |
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I've purchased Aero lowers locally for $55-$60, which is ok with me. Transfer and background fees would put most online purchases higher than that for even an Anderson.
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I looked up a few prices today and didn't see any price drop. Shouldn't everyone offer 3 lowers for a $100 by now? :-) I see both PSA and Anderson lowers are actually the same price as before the election. :-( View Quote Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. |
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Aero has been my go to for most of my builds. A company had the Aero gen2 on sale for 37.99 a piece a few months ago, I ordered 2. But I did snag a Anderson closed ear lower for 4th of July 29.99 primary arms deal and it is finished very well. I built a budget truck gun out if it. I snagged another the other day for another budget build. 29.99 for a decent lower is tough to beat. Mega are nice but side by side it is no different then the Aero except for some little scallops.
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. View Quote |
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. View Quote sure, Anderson had a couple problems here and there, but they sell the VAST majority of lowers to builders, easily at least 5-1 at my local gun shops, and VERY few have problems. |
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck.
PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. View Quote Over the years, between family, friends and co-workers, I've seen dozen's of PSA stripped-lowers assembled into perfect, functional rifles. Every single magazine-well is in-spec, trigger-pocket, receiver-extension ect. PSA sells an excellent forged Lower, period. |
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. View Quote PSA and Andersons are fine and I don't see any issue with those wanting to build a budget rifle using one. If you feel like you just need to piss extra money away on a name, then by all means do so but don't feel the need to knock every one else who wants to use PSA/Anderson. TO THE OP: As for the sales on lowers...as it's been mentioned a few times already, Anderson open and closed ears have been on sale numerous times in the past month or 2. Just keep an eye open! |
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. View Quote Of the thousands of Anderson/PSA lowers that have been built by folks on this forum if there were some issue it would be known. Personally I have built the big names and Anderson/PSA, I have seen no functional difference. |
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Are you wanting a good quality lower for that price?....if so, good luck. PSA and Anderson both offer inferior products that are not properly spec'd. That has been proven over and over again, at least 1,000 times. It's actually mind blowing, the amount of people here that praise their horrible quality because they can be had dirt cheap. You either want quality or you don't, there's no in between. Why would anybody settle for the terrible quality offered by PSA/Anderson when quality manufacturers such as Noveske, BCM, Mega, Aero all offer correctly spec'd lowers for $150 or less? Another company offering good lowers is Spike's Tactical for around $100. Aero Precision lowers can be purchased for $80-$90, Mega Arms, around $80. Settling for Anderson and PSA junk just doesn't make sense. View Quote I'm 10/10 on Anderson lowers. All fit/finish gtg and all in spec. I see no difference from the Spikes/DTI/Bushmaster/DSA lowers that I own, other than rollmarks. |
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Anybody notice that PSA Lowers are actually going up in cost? They've been on "sale" for $59.99 the past week or so, when they are usually on "sale" at $49.99
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Anybody notice that PSA Lowers are actually going up in cost? what is the best bipod for ar15? read here. They've been on "sale" for $59.99 the past week or so, when they are usually on "sale" at $49.99 View Quote |
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My LGS only seem to carry Anderson, Ruger and CMMG stripped lowers. The Anderson being 50$ the Ruger at 100$ and the CMMG for 120$ plus tax, I've built 3 Anderson lowers (1 an AR-47) all great rifles, anybody have any experience with the Ruger lowers?.............oh yeah and omni hybrids too
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Don't spread your ignorance here. All lowers are made from a handful of companies doing forgeries then machined by a handful of companies making lowers for more than one brand/rollmark. Of the thousands of Anderson/PSA lowers that have been built by folks on this forum if there were some issue it would be known. Personally I have built the big names and Anderson/PSA, I have seen no functional difference. View Quote You can't say that they haven't had well documented issues, even on this site. It has been documented. Anderson took care of it, but it happened. Just because they all start at the same places doesn't mean they all rolled down the same QC line on the way to the customer. |
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I have Andersons, and some are nicer than some Spikes. I wouldn't hesitate to buy more. You can't say that they haven't had well documented issues, even on this site. It has been documented. Anderson took care of it, but it happened. Just because they all start at the same places doesn't mean they all rolled down the same QC line on the way to the customer. View Quote I am 10/10 on Anderson lowers, never an issue. And as you stated "Anderson took care of it". That's what counts to me. |
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I have bought some Noreen billet lowers at $39.95 from Brownells. Aim Surplus had them also with U/L billet sets at $89.95. I think they are very nice in fit and finish, and fit tight together.
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Go to the (3) websites mentioned "Areo Precision" "Palmetto State Armry" "Anderson Arms" and subscribe to their mailing list.
These manufacturing company's are leading the market with AR lowers that are low priced but not cheaper in quality. Pick the one that you like the best as they are all quality and at bottom of the market prices today, cannot get much lower price. |
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My LGS is planning a 1 day sale shortly of NOS for $20/ea before sales tax & shipping.
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