I just recently bought an M4 Carbine over the weekend, 16 inch barrel removable carry handle, etc, etc. This is my first M4 that I have bought and I am in love with the gun. It is a Bushmaster XM15 that I bought from a private dealer. He had several of these new guns laying around and was willing to come off of one.
But anywho, I am looking for some good sites where I can order some accessories for my gun. I noticed that there are quite a few of you who know what you are talking about and can maybe help me out by pointing me to some decent vendors for accessories. I am looking to put some rails for the hand guard, and possibly a decent sight up top. If I do put some type of optics up top, I would like to have the opportunity to still use some type of iron sight if at all possible.
Any suggestions or guidance is greatly appreciated.
Bravo Company is also a very good place as well as a site supporter. Also I can’t offer much help in wha to put on your gun, but before you start buying things I would suggest you search this site for discussions for various things like optics, handguard, sight, etc… This can offer a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t as well as making you think more about what benefits adding these accesories to your gun and whether or not they are worth the money. In the meantime, just get ammo and mags for it.
Yeah I have been stocking up on mags and ammo for the time being. When I bought the gun I also bought 5 30 round mags for it as well, and the private dealer has tons more, I mean tons more. But I do have to say that it is getting harder and harder to find ammo for it, but I have found some here and there and get it while I can.
I appreciate the links and comments, will look for the accessories her in the near future, but like pretty much everyone else said, look around the forum and read what other people think, and I will definitely increase my stock more of mags and ammo.
There are tons more out there but these are some of the top of the line places. If you can’t find what you want just do a google search and you will find what you need.
I think it would be easier to let you know who I had problems from.
I would stay away from Galati International, They took my order, charged my card for the whole thing and said “we will pre ship the stuff we have in (which was most of my order) then when every thing else gets here we will ship that out” They waited 10 day and never shipped anything until they got everything then when i finally called they said “oh its sitting on our desk, we will ship out today” I told them to jump in a lake and demanded my money back. They missed out on at least A $500 order.
Also www.airsoftstation.com I ordered A bipod from there and it said item was in stock, But after a week I finally got an email saying it was going to be shipping out in 10 days when they got some more in, of course I canceled and got it from; www.airarmsports.com.
Spikes tactical has been about the best place, If they carry what I want. they are really nice and I would do business again when I need to.
I would strongly suggest starting slowly, getting out and shooting the gun, figuring out what parts might work best for your application, etc. The key to not wasting a bunch of money on a gun and accessories is actually knowing what you hope to achieve/improve with any given purchase and then having the ability/skills/knowledgebase/opportunity to try it out and see if it meets your goals.
I went the completely opposite direction years ago, and instead went about buying all the trinkets that were hot at the time. What I lacked was the ability to really be able to discern what was working and what wasn’t, and that was due in large part to a lack of goal.
Ironically I’ve almost started completely from scratch now after spending literally well over $10k on crap. High quality/expensive crap, but crap nonetheless. My two primary carbines now have Aimpoints, lights, and slings and I really find myself wondering why I ever added all that other crap to the original guns.
From shopping around I found that they sell the same UTG bipod that other sites sell, for about 30% cheaper. If you think UTG is crap then you don’t own any of there products, or maybe you just think airsoft is crap I don’t know, anyways I got a bipod (7"-10") for $24 vs other brands I figure that’s a great buy no matter where I bought it. btw I used to own own a harris bipod for my sks, and I find them both to be adequate bipods.
I don’t plan on keeping the bipod on all the time. I am waiting for spikes tactical to get flare launcher in, then I will be putting the bipod on when needed.
