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OLYMPIC ARMS
krawiech
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A friend is considering buying an Olympic Arms AR from Wal-Mart. Does anyone have an opinion as to the quality of their rifles?
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it in at a range. At 100 yds I was putting them in a one inch circle
and was very impressed and satisfied with the carbine until I fired
it and it broke apart. In two pieces, it broke where the upper receiver and the barrel meet, behind the retaining ring for the upper
hand guard. Why would that happen? No fast and furious firing. Using
a bench with my arm supporting it. Factory ammo. Has anyone else had
this happen to them?
Neal
the bolt carrier on my carbine has been gone over and properly staked, I changed the factory bolt to one thats made by JP, The reciever fit is fairly bad, but a ZM wedge fixed that. There is still alittle gap and I've never got around to fitting the recievers to each other.
Its a 16" heavy bdl flat top carbine, it shoots very good groups, and did out of the box. The retactable stock was a cheapy, but the extension and buffer seem to be good quality, and properly installed.
The gun is heavy, when olympic arms makes a heavy barrel, they dont skimp. but the good side is it shoots nice groups when its hot.
You need to make sure you get a high quality bolt when you go with 76239, I think thats the main weak point of Ars chambered for that round.. Good USA ammo will shoot good groups cheap ammo probably wont. USA ammo burns cleaner and will also be more conductive to reliability.
Oly arms barrels arent chrome lined, if you shoot corrosive ammo, you need to clean the gun very well with an amonia based cleaning solvent, or the bore will rust quick.
Youed need to keep an eye on it to make sure that rust isnt starting even after you clean and store it if you shoot corrosive ammo.
Also it is hard to clean the gas hole in the barrel and inside the front sight tower. My advse would be not to shoot corrosive ammo in an AR. Period.
They took pity on me and give me the favorite uncle deal on a complete flat top upper with a 16" M4(?) 5.56 barrel and Yankee Hill flip up/down front sight/gas block. For $45 labor they assembeled it all, installed it on my lower, test fired it, and gave the whole thing their lifetime warranty, which I don't really expect to use.
They took the time do deal with me and were a joy to do business with. They told me that all their parts are made in house except the plastic stuff and trigger dis-connects. They have the plastic made to their specs by a moulding company and purchase the dis-connects from I don't remember who.
Top notch people and product IMO.