Drinking the cool aid with LWRC
I have been on hiatus form gun forums for several years due to the fact that they just wore me out. I think they are great for researching information about products but you still need a really good bull shit meter to know if someone is lying to your or not. As a dealer, i get stressed out reading about all of the new optics and accessories that are coming out because I know it’s only a matter of time before I get the phone call or email about what kind of adapter or mount someone is going to need for AR15 style X. I love the industry but all of this accessorizing makes me want to break out a welding torch and just be done with it. I’ve seen guys with what must have been about 24 or more screwed in components and to think about the odds of those screws coming loose or breaking bothers me.
I recently went back to a gun forum I use to frequent and it was all the same old anti-product bashing that goes on. It’s almost tribal warfare with gun makers. LWRC uppers are definitely my favorite upper receiver although I am very much aware of how expensive they are and that it’s debatable about how much of an improvement over reliability they are. I have not had any parts breakage but I read all of the stuff i can from Pat Rogers and some of the uppers didn’t fair so well a few year ago in tests. There have been product upgrades and I actually took a tour of the LWRCI facilities last year and had a parts upgrade done to my gun. The real improvement I see if the gun just darn well runs cleaner and It doesn’t have lube running out of all of the a parts.