Help us test a polymer AR-15 Lower

I've read through pages upon pages on this forum and a few others about a few of the current polymer AR lowers on the market today.

I've come to the conclusion that there are 3 types of people weighing in:

1)The Owner - The guys that have them and love them and understand their purpose as a very cost effective way to have an AR (or an additional AR) in your stash that will hold up just fine during normal range/hunting/plinking use. These guys understand that they're not being put out to replace the Colt as the nations battlerifle overseas, etc. 90% + of what they say about them is positive. Key features being weight and price.

2)The Skeptic - The guys who still have trouble saying Glock is a reliable firearm, think that aluminum is 100 times stronger than polymer and can put up with much more torture, etc. Tried and true and sticking to their guns on this one......no purpose for a polymer lower. Spend the extra $100 and get a "real" lower. Explain over and over why they wouldn't trust their life to it (which no one has ever asked them to do).

3)The Gun Forum Guy - The guys that saw 3 pictures of broken polymer lowers on ARFCOM but can't dig them up that easy. 2 of those pictures being aluminum receivers, but you can't tell them that. The 3rd you can clearly see vice jaw serration marks on the magwell where this thing was tied down and beat to death. But because they "read about on a forum" or "heard from a buddy's buddy" about one breaking so they're going to steer clear of them until they go mainstream and are "proven"

So, I'm sure most of you reading this will fall somewhere into one of these categories. I mean no offense with these descriptions, so please don't take it that way. I don't blame your opinion no matter which category you fall into because its your opinion.

What I am trying to do is a little bit of fun factor testing for a product we will be releasing very soon. It's similiar in some ways to other products out there, but I believe our assembly process, QA process, and the parts we use are superior. I also believe we will have their price beat at the same time.

We're putting together some videos to document certain tests.

We have some ideas already, but we'd love to hear what might sway you from the belief that the poly lowers aren't as durable as aluminum forged. Can they be broken, of course. But most of what we tried that actually caused a failure to the poly, produced the same failure with aluminum.

Here are some of the myth's that we will be disproving:

1) Doesn't hold up to many rounds because of the polymer parts in the FCG
2) Will "melt in my hand when shooting it"
3) Will deform with heat
4) Will "shatter" if dropped
5) Will break if any pressure is put on it
etc, etc, etc......

We will be doing a lot of tests that other companies haven't done for some reason or another, and I think we'll be able to sway a few folks from group 2 and 3 into owners.

So, give us your ideas on some torture tests you'd like to see that would actually make sense and help you understand the strength of the product.

Thanks in advance for any feedback we receive!!

We have a FA that has over 10K rounds through it (almost all full auto mag dumps) with no problems. We'll def have one test of the rifle being thrown accross the desert from person to person while doing 100 rd mag dumps on full auto at every stop.

On top of that we're going to set up our jig that runs the hammer and trigger at a faster pace than anyones finger can, and run that until something doesn't want to go anymore. We'll have to time laps the video, but we'll get something out there to this effect.

I agree, and like I said, I wasn't trying to be "trollish" or derogatory in anyway, thats why I'm asking you guys for your input.

The list of "problems" I made was taken from posts here on this forum and another large AR forum.

Yes, I understand that they can all be disproved, but they obviously need to or people wouldn't post these things, right?

Like I said, not looking to piss anyone off or convert anyone, I was just looking for some input on what you guys would like to see as far as tests.

Thanks for the input so far!