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Bushmaster AR15 rifle worth it?
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The media blasts it because, unfortunately that's what the guys stole and used to kill with. I own one and it has been a fine gun. I bought an or model one week after the sandy hook shootings and paid around $1000 for it. I have never had any problems with it. It fires every time I pull the trigger and is very accurate with the optics that I put on it. It may not be a colt but for the price I think that it's a great and fun investment.
Yeah my dealer had one in stock for a couple weeks... My colt 6920 doesn't function perfectly. It doesn't like russian steel ammo. I guess it doesn't like the casing. The Silver bear where its zinc casing, it did a little better but still failure to extract. I am thinking about an M&P15...
I have heard that the older ones are a little better than the ones that Walmart started selling. I have one that I bought in 2003 and have had no issues at all with about 6,000 rounds down the pipe. I love mine, just as good as a Colt!
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I haven't tried any steel ammo through mine yet so I can't give any feedback on it. I do have a couple of friends that have shot steel through their m&ps. One ate it up from the start and the other had to break it in for a while before it would cycle properly, but it will feed now.
I once ran 600 rounds of Silver Bear through my BM and after about 500 rounds I'd have to hit the forward asst. to fire the next round...very nasty ammo. I have put a ton of the Wolf and Tulammo through it with no issues. I have heard that too much steel ammo can break an extractor, that's the bad part.... the good part an extractor is not too much $$
I agree with that, but as far as choosing a new rifle. I love my bushie and my friends love their s&ws. I think that flaws are always possible no matter what manufacturer, so it depends how much money you want to spend on a new gun.
