nwilliams
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A few weeks ago I made a big mistake! I bought an Armalite M-15 from my local gun shop.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=507030&highlight=armalite
The first day that I took it out the gun crapped out on me within less than 40 rounds of ammo through it. In the middle of shooting the bolt started sticking and the gun wouldn't cycle. I then noticed that the hammer pin had worked it's way about halfway out. I opened up the gun and saw that the hammer was off to the side and had damaged the spring that's used to adjust the match trigger weight. The coil spring that adjusts the match trigger was dented, obviously from where the back of the hammer struck it after it got misaligned. I realigned hammer and pushed the hammer pin back in, it was then that I noticed that the hammer pin was very loose and could be pushed out easily. I guess as the hammer was going back and forth the hammer pin was creeping out more and more until finally the hammer was no longer held in place.
So I took the Armalite back to the shop and explained what happened. The shop manager said that he would send the gun back to Armalite and give them one chance to fix the problem.
Well about two weeks later the gun came back with a slip from Armalite. According to them they replaced the "D-Ring" and there were no other problems with the gun. We opened up the gun and saw that coil spring was still damaged and bent, I was shocked that they didn't notice it or replace it. We had no idea what the "D-Ring" is and why it needed to be replaced. We could only assume that they were referring to the Delta Ring. However if they really did replace the Delta Ring then why did it have the same exact scratch on it that was there before the gun was sent back!
The shop manager was not happy and immediately offered to give me a full refund on the gun. I had $1200 invested in this Armalite and I decided to look for another AR to replace it.
The shop was running a special on Daniel Defense DDXV's for $1050 so I decided to go with one of them. Hopefully it will prove to be a better choice than the Armailte.
Here's a link to the new thread I started with pics of my new Daniel Defense...
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=6377233#post6377233
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=507030&highlight=armalite
The first day that I took it out the gun crapped out on me within less than 40 rounds of ammo through it. In the middle of shooting the bolt started sticking and the gun wouldn't cycle. I then noticed that the hammer pin had worked it's way about halfway out. I opened up the gun and saw that the hammer was off to the side and had damaged the spring that's used to adjust the match trigger weight. The coil spring that adjusts the match trigger was dented, obviously from where the back of the hammer struck it after it got misaligned. I realigned hammer and pushed the hammer pin back in, it was then that I noticed that the hammer pin was very loose and could be pushed out easily. I guess as the hammer was going back and forth the hammer pin was creeping out more and more until finally the hammer was no longer held in place.
So I took the Armalite back to the shop and explained what happened. The shop manager said that he would send the gun back to Armalite and give them one chance to fix the problem.
Well about two weeks later the gun came back with a slip from Armalite. According to them they replaced the "D-Ring" and there were no other problems with the gun. We opened up the gun and saw that coil spring was still damaged and bent, I was shocked that they didn't notice it or replace it. We had no idea what the "D-Ring" is and why it needed to be replaced. We could only assume that they were referring to the Delta Ring. However if they really did replace the Delta Ring then why did it have the same exact scratch on it that was there before the gun was sent back!
The shop manager was not happy and immediately offered to give me a full refund on the gun. I had $1200 invested in this Armalite and I decided to look for another AR to replace it.
The shop was running a special on Daniel Defense DDXV's for $1050 so I decided to go with one of them. Hopefully it will prove to be a better choice than the Armailte.
Here's a link to the new thread I started with pics of my new Daniel Defense...
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=6377233#post6377233
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