They weren’t my first choice either. I was looking for a 20" Colt with FSB and M4 feed ramps, but the barrel by itself isn’t real easy to come by. I did some research on them, and they seemed to be pretty well thought of. Mine doesn’t have an F-marked FSB. That wasn’t a huge deal, though.
Also better than BCM and other similar hobby grade brands.
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I’m probably opening a can of worms by even going here, but you consider BCM barrels to be “hobby grade”?
I wouldn’t order from Arms Unlimited. Every Colt part I’ve ordered from them has been flawed somehow. The Colt bcg I ordered from them looked like a QC reject, or perhaps used. The SOCOM barrel I ordered from them had to be sent back to Colt for warranty work, because it was grouping way left. I ordered a Colt LPK, and the shipment has been pending since last Wednesday. In contrast everything I’ve ordered from Grant has been spot on. No questionable markings on the bcg, the SOCOM barrel is grouping spot on, and no shipping issues.
What?
****ing fact.
Y’all gonna feel the wrath of Admin
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BCM is just PSA with better marketing… like celebrity “gun fighters.” If PSA had celebrity gun fighters all their issues would get swept under the rug too.
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Advertising and paying people to stop any bad reviews on gun forums will make any company look like rock stars.
Wow, this thread just hopped on board the failboat. To the OP, I bought a standard 14.5 M4 Colt barrel from scottyryan a while back, he’s got a gunbroker page and it was a fair price. Not sure if he still sells them or not, but it would be worth checking out. Every Colt part I’ve bought from Arms Unlimited has been GTG. PSA is a far cry from BCM.
How you figure? The word of SMEs is well respected around here.
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I’m sheltering in place.
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Are you bacing this off of actual real experiencs or was it from what the poeple on the internet have told you?
I don’t consider BCM anything near “hobby grade” or PSA, but Molon does have a thread or two here where Colt barrels regularly outshoot many others, to include Noveske and BCM IIRC.
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I’ve got two BCM carbines that get used on a regular basis. Never had a lick of trouble out of either of them. Both have SOCOM barrels, and the only thing I have read is that BCM barrels tend to not be quite as accurate as the corresponding Colt barrel. I’ve never heard them referred to as “hobby grade” before.
In a world where Colt SOCOM barrels regularly shoot sub-moa, why is anyone even asking after what 14.5 FSB barrel to get? Just find a Colt SOCOM and drive on. And if the BCM barrel is outshot by the corresponding Colt barrel, that may be a basis for hobbygrade.
Correction. Colt, along with Daniel Defense barrels, are issued to face shooters; everything else is hobby grade. Thems the breaks.
PSA has a run of 14.7" CHF barrelled uppers right now. Anyone would be hard pressed to put together a completed upper with an M-Lok rail for anything less than what you’d be paying for it from PSA. Check the torque specs on things, then burn some ammo with it and check the groups. I imagine that you’d end up with a shooter.
I don’t own any PSA complete rifles, but I’d not hesitate to do so if I wanted an extra rifle laying around and I couldn’t find a cheap 6920. I do have a PSA complete pistol lower, and it was in perfect working order. I needed to unwind the mag release a little, as it was on rather tight and wouldn’t drop Pmag M3s, but that took me what? A few dry run mag changes, a punch, and three turns of the mag release to fix?
Have I missed something? BCM meets the TDP. Is the TDP no longer good enough?
Are we talking ‘grade’ or brand?
Is KAC hobby grade?
Disclaimer: kind of a stupid word debate imo, but curious on your qualifiers…
in my limited experience is that bcm>psa. (2samples bcm, 1 sample psa).