Well I am fixin’ to order a new AR today, here is the dilemma.
I can get a 6920 from Grant and have about $100 left in my budget. Or I can order a Palmetto M4 CMV and have about $350 left in my budget that I can use to get more ammo.
I know with the Colt all I have to do is slap on my Eotech, Insert a Mag, and as long as I maintain it, never have to worry about when things go bump in the night.
I don’t know as much about the PSA as it is newer and not as time proven.
PSA is close to me and have put hands on their products. (In fact I was just in their store on Thursday). That said, I’d buy the Colt. Not that PSA isn’t nice stuff, but as you said PSA is newer and not as proven.
I have a 20" PSA upper half with an FN barrel. It has been trouble-free since day one. I oiled it and put 500 rounds of mixed ammunition through it with no problems. Accurate enough to hit clay pigeons at 100 yards all day long. The specs are good- the only thing that makes you go “hmm” is they used a round handguard cap, but that’s more of a cosmetic issue than a functional one.
My experience does not seem to be uncommon, although there were a few complaints in the very early days- could be growing pains, could be lasting issues. Hard to say.
That said, if a Colt is in the budget, I’d be very tempted to go with a Colt. Whatever you do, don’t take that $100 left over and try to buy optics with only $100… realize you’ll be on irons until you save up.
PSA is selling complete rifles for way too cheap. They’re either taking a hit on their profits and trying to gain market share, or they are cutting corners somehow.
Go with the Colt, or a DD/BCM if you can find one for cheaper.
The years will pass and you can budget for more ammo. If you can’t budget for more ammo, I suggest going a different route than the AR.
I purchased a Colt through Grant last night (my first AR!) - I’d say put the money into the gun - ammo will come and go with time but the gun should last a very long time. You know what you’re getting when you go with the Colt - if you’re unsure about PSA, well, that says it all.
Yeah, given that you already have a quality optic, and I assume some ammo (You did say the surplus funds would go towards more ammo.) I’d go with the Colt, too, and that’s as a happy PSA owner.
Buy the Colt. I have purchased one “as good as the others…” guns before. Never again, Quality first.
I was in PSA the other day, I live near there Bluffton Store, and they have again switched manufacturers, that is the third by my count. Told me he couldn’t say who the new company was but was far better than the previous one. Also while shooting the shit with one of the owners, the Freedom group came up, he told me “We will probably be approached to be bought out by a big company like them soon.” :rolleyes:
Great prices on most of the stuff they sell though!
Riverwalk business park. Yeah you would think they might advertise they have two stores… If you were familiar with Palmetto State Indoor Range that is where they are now.
Depends. Do you already have a good dependable AR, like a Colt, Daniel Defense, BCM, Noveske, LMT etc or is this your first buy? If you already have a good rifle and this is to supplement that one, the PSA is an interesting gamble; good specs, but unproven.
If this is your first, go with the Colt. I have a PSA upper sitting in my safe waiting for a lower, but I already had a good dependable rifle, so I thought it was an interesting gamble for the price. Honestly with the prices of the Colts, I wish I had waited and bought a 6920 instead.
I think any respected gun could do a “filty14”. if you’ll notice, parts in that gun broke and others were replaced at maintenance intervals.
I see the article more as a validation of the reliability of the AR platform, rather than any single manufacturer…
but to the point of the the thread, given the unpredictable nature of politics, etc., if I could get a Colt within a couple hundred $$ of a PSA, that is what I would do. however, if I was looking for a GOOD gun and pinching pennies, the PSA Patrol Carbine with the included Aimpoint PRO for $1100 would be my first choice…
I don’t believe that is entirely true. There was virtually no cleaning and parts were replaced as they broke- as I recall. There are no real established maintenance intervals, per se.