OLYMPIC ARMS

krawiech

A friend is considering buying an Olympic Arms AR from Wal-Mart. Does anyone have an opinion as to the quality of their rifles?

krawiech

Are Olympic Arms ar-15 style weapons any good?

krawiech

I just bought a new Olympic Arms with 16inch heavy barrel, a-2 sights and a-2 stock, man is it a shooter! I had an SP-1 car-15 a couple of years ago, and it was really hard to sight off of the collapsable stock. With the fixed stock it's a piece of cake, and it's still a compact rifle. The price of the Olympic Arms was only $640, and that included the tax. I think this gun is a step above the "plinker" that lists for $589.

Thanks, Grizztribefans@sssnet.com

krawiech

is their AR 15 worth purchasing ? I want a Bushmaster but I see where the OA's are alot cheaper & come with a lifetime warranty, I dont shoot alot but just want something to tinker around with, any help appreciated looking for myself a christmas present.

krawiech

Recently became interested in purchasing a AR type rifle. Received a catalog from bushmaster that was very helpful in providing information and selling their rifles. I have fired and handled a bushmaster and enjoyed it. A co-worker sugested to me to look into olympic arms. Visited their web-site, but was just wondering how they shoot and reputation for their AR rifles.

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krawiech

has anyone purchased an olympic arms ar style rifle how good is their quality they seem to have a good warranty as well as a satisfaction warranty as well im thinking of buying an upper reciever for a 7.62x39 to fit on a bushmaster ar 15 or a complete rifle in the same caliber post ban ive been waiting for dpms to make a rifle fpr for 8 months now and still no completion date i just may cancel the dpms rifle thanks hank k

krawiech

I have an Olympic arms AR-15. I put a scope on it and was sighting
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?

grizzclaw

I always liked mine, never had any problems that I needed to use the warranty. Have the pcr-02 in .223.

nmyers

Do you think that any manufacturer will honor a warranty if their parts have been used to assemble a Mixed Parts Mongrel?

Neal

marti462

I bought an Olympic AR from a friend. The only problem I've had is that the two screws holding the gas key to the bolt carrier tend to work themselves loose no matter how hard I tighten them. They may have been over-torqued at some point, I haven't had time to fool with it. Otherwise it seems to be a pretty decent rifle.

quickmajik

I got an Oly or two.

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.

krawiech

i only intend to shoot american made ammo in any ar type rifle but thanks for the info on corrosive loadsim looking at the k30r which is 7.62x39 as expressed previously i want it as a backup for deer hunting target shooting and getting my 2 grandsons exposed to 30 caliber rifle shooting i also have a bushmaster in 5.53 and 22.3 which they will shoot first the oldest one wants to go deer hunting this year and i figured the 7.62x39 would be a good rifle out to about 100 to 125 yards what does everyone else think decent choice or not i believe the semi would produce less felt recoil any help would be appreciated after talking with dpms today im going to cancel my order with them for the same rifle its going on 9 months now and still no projected completion date im pretty well fed up with dpms at the nra spring show in charlotte they told me 4 to 6 monthsnothing but problems with them anyone else having problems with ordering products from them hank k

Horse Plains Drifter

I got an Oly AR in 5.56. I bought it used, and it was an early Oly lower(1987) and the upper was a mix of military surplus reciever, Oly 5.56 11.5" barrel with the permanently installed 5.5" flash supressor, and lord only knows who else's parts. I suspected it was a parts gun when I bought it, and knew it didn't shoot as well as I wanted. The above was confirmed after I took it up to their factory, as I'm only a little over an hour away.

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.

1917watercooled

First rifle I ever bought, about the 1980s something. Didn't know anything about the AR and still don't. Fired it about a 1000 times over the years. The hammer is chewed up and it double taps quite often. A friend told me the pin holes in the receiver were not drilled correctly. Never called the factory as I just assumed it was another piece of Colt knock off made junk.

Nwcid

I have own/owned several and shot many others. No problems here. Some stuff they make you cant get from any other company.