Any Cali shooters buying 'off-list' AR lowers?

[xenophobe]

lol...

I am! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[RacerX]

Re: Any Cali shooters buying \'off-list\' AR lowers?

How much?

[442w30]

Re: Any Cali shooters buying \'off-list\' AR lowers?

Man, is that mega serial number 666? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

That one's a keeper. Just got a DPMS today. HBAR A4 baby!

[rjohnstone]

Re: Any Cali shooters buying \'off-list\' AR lowers?

The POF is crap... made here localy.
I had the chance to try an AR that used one a while back and it mis-fired like a MF. Hammer would hang about every 8 or 9 rounds.
The upper was made by Olympic Arms using a genuine Colt bolt, carrier and blowback assembley.
May have just been a bad unit, but first impressions were not good.

[xenophobe]

Re: Any Cali shooters buying \'off-list\' AR lowers?

POF is crap? Umm... they're not made by Olympic Arms... Olympic Arms used to be horrible... their receivers were cast. Now Olympic/SGW uses CMT to manufacture their receivers... CMT is top notch. POF uppers and lowers are made by Mega Machine Shop, and their gas system rifles get pretty good reviews by pretty much everyone... a search of arfcom should reveal that much. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Small Arms Review is doing an article on them... here's a breif review of the POF 416:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.htm...8&t=274159

Ron, they range from about $125-$250 or so, depending on where you get them from.

They're currently legal to buy, and build up a Cali-10 rnd fixed rifle, but once they're listed by the DOJ, you may very well be able to remove the fixed mag and use detachables...

Here's some good reading as to how these are legal now:
http://www.calguns.net/a_california_arak.htm

[rjohnstone]

Re: Any Cali shooters buying \'off-list\' AR lowers?

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POF is crap?

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Like I said... may have just been a bad unit.
Or the person who assembled it didn't know what he was doing.
Guess I shouldn't have generalized based on the one experience.
Either way, the experience was not a good one.

And yea... I remember the early Olympic Arms stuff.
Bad tolerences all around. My friend Brett had a CAR-15 that had an Olympic upper and lower and the thing would stove pipe rounds all the time. Mags would not stay in tight either... they would start to slip/tilt after the first round and on more than one occasion, would just fall out. [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]