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Posted: 4/12/2010 1:15:38 AM EDT
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If there roughly the same price +-$300 (between the 2 of them), which would you go for Paws/Oly or Sendra/Bushmaster? Any reason?
ETA: Clarification. Pre-86 transferables ETA2: Pics 
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Quoted: Ban state I presume...I'd go with the Sendra, just because I'm one of those people who doesn't want the cast lower and the Sendra is probably forged. Who's selling them? If the price is right, I might take the one you don't want if it is pre-ban. These are registered machine guns. |
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Ban state I presume...I'd go with the Sendra, just because I'm one of those people who doesn't want the cast lower and the Sendra is probably forged. Who's selling them? If the price is right, I might take the one you don't want if it is pre-ban. Every time someone sees an Olympic Arms M16, they assmue it is cast lower. FYI, None of the OA PAWS receivers are cast, they are all Forged. |
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A Bushmaster converted Sendra was considered second only to Colt in quality back in the day.
Absolutely!!!! 100% I agree with all these guys. The Bushmaster Sendras are awesome quality, Mil spec guns. That is why I got mine. I love it. You probobly will have to have US Anodizing anodize it and again thats what I did and Victor took good care of me. Had it back to me looking brand new in 10 days. Door to door. Get the Sendra. My 2 cents, Rob |
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As noted above, they are both forged receivers.
Of the two, all other things bring equal, I would go for the Sendra, because many of the Olys were slightly out-of-spec: Tight magwells, incorrect top decks, out-of-spec takedown hole/pin issues. All are correctable, but if you have an alternative that is in-spec ... The "all other things being equal" is the important part: Both of these MGs are 24 or more years old. And there can be a world of difference, depending on if they were well-cared-for ... or driven hard and put away wet. Prior to May 19, 1986, if you wanted a full-auto AR, your choices were to buy a spankin' new-in-the-box Colt factory M16A1 or M16A2 for $600 to $800, depending on the model ... or buy a registered-receiver conversion for a couple hundred less. Sometimes, a conversion was all folks could afford; other times, the buyers planned to work them hard, and there was no point in paying the Colt premium for a gun that was just gonna get thrown in the bed of the pickup. After all, you could always buy another one, cheap, if this one broke. The alloy receiver is unstressed during firing; OTOH, it is the most-stressed component during handling. I've seen cracks in the front of the magwell, in the front takedown rings, in the receiver wall between the magwell and the FCG area, in the receiver extension hoop. Then you have the 9mm conversions that started coming out in the late '80s but no one started ramping the bolts until a decade later, when owners started noticing their hammer-and-trigger pin holes were now ovals or slots instead of nice, round holes. Say you want to buy a '67 Corvette ragtop. You find two –– one is red, one is blue. You know nothing about previous owners, internal modifications, whether they are original "survivors" or restrored cars. Which will give you better service, the red one or the blue one? I wouldn't buy an old car without a personal inspection –– by me, if I knew what to look for; by a qualified third party, if I didn't. HTH. YMMV. 
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actually the better deal would have been the RDIAS that was in subguns last week for I think 12k? it was all steel, and very well taken care of, it's SPF right now. was that one of the ones that has been sold out of the prop-house in NY? I believe so |
The only thing that bothered me about that RDIAS was the "paper-thin" right hand side of the sear body. I know that the right side of the RDIAS body is usually thinner than the left side, but that one looked really thin in the area of the sear pin hole. 
ETA: The PAWS/Oly definitely LOOKS better than the BFI/Sendra, way better in fact. Of course, looks don't tell the entire story... |
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actually the better deal would have been the RDIAS that was in subguns last week for I think 12k? it was all steel, and very well taken care of, it's SPF right now. was that one of the ones that has been sold out of the prop-house in NY? I believe so I'd give them a call if you really wanted one. He said he had a "hand full" of them and would be selling them off from time to time. |
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