Cajun Pawn Stars M4 (Ridiculous?)

jakeg823 wrote:

yroc wrote:

Myers wrote:He put quality stuff on it. Ta01 acog is about 1200$, knights rail is about 400 retail, surefire is about 300$ retail. It's still a bushmaster though.

Whats wrong with Bushmaster?

Nothing wrong with Bushmaster, but its not worth what they seem to think it is just the same. Bushmaster has been working its way to the bottom of the AR food chain over the past few years. A lot of folks are AR snobs(I know crazy right!?) and think if it doesn't say DD, Noveske, LMT, or Colt on it then its automatically trash....I will admit folks get far too caught up in the MilSpec craze. Sometimes there is a huge quality difference, sometimes there isn't.

Like I said, I have nothing against Bushmasters, but I can almost guarantee you a milspec purist on something like ar15.com would tell you that "you can polish a turd, but its still a turd."


My younger brother just bought an LMT(Lewis Machine and Tool) last week. Its a nice gun, and its built like an effing tank, and the Pmags drop free, so thats nice......but for what he paid for it(nearly a $2k gun), its not much nicer than most $8 or 900 ARs. Semi-auto bolt carrier('standard" FA and SA are listed for the same price on their website), 1 magazine, standard ugly flat trigger guard that almost everyone replaces now anyway, very heavy trigger, the SOPMOD stock is a joke(the battery compartments fall out after about 10 rounds of shooting), and it may be designed to do so, but when popping a full mag on the bottom to seat completely with a closed bolt the dust cover pops open(again that may be a design, and its not necessarily a bad thing, just strange to me).....and these are things of course that can be changed and fixed, but if i'm going to spend $2k on a gun then it had sure nuff better come decked out! Its a nice gun and well built....but not worth what he paid IMO, so whenever I get ready to upgrade to a higher end rifle I'll probably look elsewhere.

But like I said earlier, why in the world would you buy a Bushmaster, DPMS or other $800 range gun that is not going to be Milspec, when you honestly could go buy a Colt(which is milspec) for about $1k??? It doesnt make sense....at least not to me. Now a few years ago during the Obama panic, when there were fewer available milspec rifles and their prices were sky high? I could see it then....thats how I wound up with a DPMS, and even though its been a reliable gun it doesn't live up to what I know the ARs potential is, so i'm stuck with about a 5" group at 50 yds until I either trade it off or upgrade the barrel. Its reliable though, which is what matters most to me.

Example of Colt in $1k price range:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=270551328
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=270600285

as far as decking out a cheaper AR like the Bushy, one of my favorite things about the AR platform is that you can take almost any part off of one AR and put it on another one....so when you buy a Olympic, DPMS, Bushy or one of the other "undesirables" and decide to upgrade, you can still take the same parts that you like so much off of those and put them on the next rifle. Example would be my DPMS, I've got way more money in parts than its worth between the Magpul stock set, the Trijicon Reflex and Midwest Industries sights....but whenever I upgrade to a Milspec gun, or just build my next one, all I have to do is take that stuff off and transplant it to the new gun, and replace the stock parts on my DPMS, and really the only part that wouldn't be a perfect fit on a Milspec gun would be the MOE stock because its commercial size not milspec.