If you are going to enter a gun forum, or a gun sub forum, such as this one, and declare :
"My SO AND SO BRAND RAN GREAT!"
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY",
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND HAS NEVER FAILED",
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND WORKS PERFECT"
... you should be required to define it.
Works perfectly? Doing what? Collecting dust in the closet? Wipe's off well? Looks good in the mirror? Serves well as the prop when you tell your latest squeeze about how attached to it you are due to your "days in the sandbox together"?
Ran Flawlessly; over what? A 50 round box? Oh my, you mean you actually shot 100! Nice! In what conditions? Sitting at the range all benched-up hoping to get a good group on paper for posting on the forum?
Never failed? Over what round count? Let's see a picture of that AR that's never failed. Bet I can tell ya what it looks like.
It works just as well as... Really? How did you come to that conclusion? Does dust stick to the other one worse than it does yours?
If you want to proclaim the perfection of your rifle, you need to be specific.
Let's face it, 99% of the "AR Buyers" in the US and in this forum, are hobby shooters, occasional shooters at the most. It's a "cool thing" to own, a "cool thing" to show the boys in the garage on the weekend.
Nothing wrong with that... most of us never want to push it, dont care to push it, dont want to train or compete. No problem with that. Buy the cheap one, you SHOULDN'T spend big money on something you'll rarely use or rely on.
Has it ever even gotten "dirty"? Did you weep when it got that first boo-boo on the receiver (it fell of the bed!)? Did you freaking paint the engravings?
Yeah, AR's have become a beauty contest, full of the latest and greatest "have to have" bolt-ons, bought up in mass by folks that wouldn't dare run that thing, don't know how or care to know how. Hey, that thing may weigh 30 lbs, but it's got all the cool stuff hung all over it. You know it's BS when the AR owner feels compelled to buy a better freaking camera.
You've got to build your frankenbudget clunker for $500 cause you're going to spend another $2K on crap for it. WTH, you cant even see what AR it is under all those doodads.
Yet without any info/background, Joe Bob comes on the web praising his "awesome AR" and how reliable it is. Passing this bogus, baseless info onto the others that are all too eager to learn that a "great AR" can be had cheap, just like they hoped.
"My SO AND SO BRAND RAN GREAT!"
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY",
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND HAS NEVER FAILED",
or
"MY SO AND SO BRAND WORKS PERFECT"
... you should be required to define it.
Works perfectly? Doing what? Collecting dust in the closet? Wipe's off well? Looks good in the mirror? Serves well as the prop when you tell your latest squeeze about how attached to it you are due to your "days in the sandbox together"?
Ran Flawlessly; over what? A 50 round box? Oh my, you mean you actually shot 100! Nice! In what conditions? Sitting at the range all benched-up hoping to get a good group on paper for posting on the forum?
Never failed? Over what round count? Let's see a picture of that AR that's never failed. Bet I can tell ya what it looks like.
It works just as well as... Really? How did you come to that conclusion? Does dust stick to the other one worse than it does yours?
If you want to proclaim the perfection of your rifle, you need to be specific.
Let's face it, 99% of the "AR Buyers" in the US and in this forum, are hobby shooters, occasional shooters at the most. It's a "cool thing" to own, a "cool thing" to show the boys in the garage on the weekend.
Nothing wrong with that... most of us never want to push it, dont care to push it, dont want to train or compete. No problem with that. Buy the cheap one, you SHOULDN'T spend big money on something you'll rarely use or rely on.
Has it ever even gotten "dirty"? Did you weep when it got that first boo-boo on the receiver (it fell of the bed!)? Did you freaking paint the engravings?
Yeah, AR's have become a beauty contest, full of the latest and greatest "have to have" bolt-ons, bought up in mass by folks that wouldn't dare run that thing, don't know how or care to know how. Hey, that thing may weigh 30 lbs, but it's got all the cool stuff hung all over it. You know it's BS when the AR owner feels compelled to buy a better freaking camera.
You've got to build your frankenbudget clunker for $500 cause you're going to spend another $2K on crap for it. WTH, you cant even see what AR it is under all those doodads.
Yet without any info/background, Joe Bob comes on the web praising his "awesome AR" and how reliable it is. Passing this bogus, baseless info onto the others that are all too eager to learn that a "great AR" can be had cheap, just like they hoped.
