There’s a plethora of youtube vids and blog reviews demonstrating various issues throughout the years. Maybe they’ve got their act together these days, who knows. I will say that a $499 price tag in the midst of possibly the biggest gun grab in our history (along with the rate they are pumping them out) doesn’t offer much reassurance from a quality control standpoint.

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Posted by Scoob

Near Exxon

Member since Jun 2009

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Posted on 7/21/20 at 1:02 pm to Soul Gleaux

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There’s a plethora of youtube vids and blog reviews demonstrating various issues throughout the years. Maybe they’ve got their act together these days, who knows.

When I searched, I found 2 videos, both of which were positive. Mrgunsgear and someone else. Pewpewtactical and somewhere else (TTAG I think) were positive in the written reviews.
I've seen references to something a few years back, somebody had a quarrel with the brand and got harrassed by them, apparently, when they gave a bad review.

A lot of the reviews seem to be favorable, and mention negative reviews but almost uniformly, those are defined as "I heard someone said ...".

I'm new to ARs, but not new to guns. I'm very familiar with what you'd call "gun snobs". I have seen people shite on Armscor 1911's because they lack prestige; but they run.
I'm not looking for the Ed Brown version of an AR, I want something cheap and functional.

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I will say that a $499 price tag in the midst of possibly the biggest gun grab in our history (along with the rate they are pumping them out) doesn’t offer much reassurance from a quality control standpoint.

understood... and considered. I'm buying a complete gun because I haven't built, and not sure what to examine. They offer a lifetime warranty, and I know a couple of gunsmiths.

And I don't consider price to be the end-all in quality, never have. I know people search for brand names, you can charge a premium for a logo and it will sell. And right now, you can double your price and somebody will still buy it. I'm watching that with ammo.

This isn't meant to be a brag on HEY LOOK AT MY NEW AWESOME TOY thread. We can go back to that when things settle down.

It's more about finding something functional, for the best price you can.

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Posted by cdaniel76

Covington, LA

Member since Feb 2008

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Posted on 7/21/20 at 1:27 pm to Soul Gleaux

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There’s a plethora of youtube vids and blog reviews demonstrating various issues throughout the years. Maybe they’ve got their act together these days, who knows.

I watched several reviews on Radical Arms AR's in recent days. The ones with issues were from 3+ years ago and the issues all seemed, to me at least, to be related to the reviewers putting the guns through torture-type tests.

One reviewer put 4000+ rounds through one without cleaning or lubricating and gave it a glowing review until it did fail on round 4310.

Here's his review from 4 years ago at 4000+ rounds. He gives it great reviews.

Here's where he has a bolt failure at 4310 rounds. The bolt rings were worn badly and the cam pin broke at the firing pin hole. Remember though, if you watched the above video, he never cleaned or lubed it once! Your average shooter will clean and lube every 500 - 1000 rounds. Your anal shooters (me) will clean after every range trip. AR's typically like too be run clean and wet(lubed). Rings, cam pins and cotter pins, etc are items that most owners should be looking to maintenance around 5000 rounds or so anyway.

Here's a follow-up he did after replacing the bolt where he's still happy with the gun even though it is a budget AR-15. Most owners that purchase a budget rifle go into it knowing they will eventually upgrade internals and add accessories. I don't see anything truly upsetting or bad about bolt rings and a cam pin breaking at 4300 rounds after someone purposefully went that long with no cleaning or lube.

Here's a different reviewer with a video from 1 year ago that mentions the prior issues R. A. had and he addresses it starting around the 5:25 mark. He also mentions the new testing processes R. A. uses in testing their bolts (magnetic particle inspected and proof tested) which are now built in-house.

This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 1:40 pm

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