Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
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I'm sorry, but I've come to hate them. There's a million of them out there:
-T/C, Handi-Rifle, Optima Pro, etc.
-Semi-auto handguns with mulitiple uppers or just barrels for caliber conversions
-AR15s with multi-caliber conversions by switching uppers
-MechTech carbine conversions
-myriad of .22 conversions
-Dan Wesson revolver barrels
-on and on
Don't get me wrong. I love them IF and only if I also have a dedicated lower /receiver to go with each one, so that any given gun is a complete unit unto itself. In the past, I have dedicated both a complete 1911 lower and a Glock lower to two Mech Tech units, and liked them just fine. Would love to have 50 AR15s in different calibers, provided I have a lower for each and every one. What I hate is taking the time to switch them out. Who has time for that? It's just not worth the money saved, to me. When I want to hit the range or grab a carry gun, I want to just grab the gun I want out of the safe, load up quickly, and not spend my time at the range fooling with guns, switching things out. I want to spend my time *shooting*. I understand completely the appeal of the cost savings, and have fallen for it many times. But I always end up coming back to the same conclusion. I don't like fooling with them. I always end up either buying a lower/receiver to dedicate to each barrel, or selling the extra barrels/uppers.
One Gun ==> One reciever
That's the natural order of things when it comes to gun ratios.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest - maybe someone else won't make the mistakes I did. Life's too short to switch out uppers. I even went so far as to dedicate an entire AR15 to the Ceiner .22lr conversion since I like it so much, so right now I'm looking to sell a .223 bolt carrier unit and looking for a replacement SHTF gun (another AR or XCR or both).
-T/C, Handi-Rifle, Optima Pro, etc.
-Semi-auto handguns with mulitiple uppers or just barrels for caliber conversions
-AR15s with multi-caliber conversions by switching uppers
-MechTech carbine conversions
-myriad of .22 conversions
-Dan Wesson revolver barrels
-on and on
Don't get me wrong. I love them IF and only if I also have a dedicated lower /receiver to go with each one, so that any given gun is a complete unit unto itself. In the past, I have dedicated both a complete 1911 lower and a Glock lower to two Mech Tech units, and liked them just fine. Would love to have 50 AR15s in different calibers, provided I have a lower for each and every one. What I hate is taking the time to switch them out. Who has time for that? It's just not worth the money saved, to me. When I want to hit the range or grab a carry gun, I want to just grab the gun I want out of the safe, load up quickly, and not spend my time at the range fooling with guns, switching things out. I want to spend my time *shooting*. I understand completely the appeal of the cost savings, and have fallen for it many times. But I always end up coming back to the same conclusion. I don't like fooling with them. I always end up either buying a lower/receiver to dedicate to each barrel, or selling the extra barrels/uppers.
One Gun ==> One reciever
That's the natural order of things when it comes to gun ratios.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest - maybe someone else won't make the mistakes I did. Life's too short to switch out uppers. I even went so far as to dedicate an entire AR15 to the Ceiner .22lr conversion since I like it so much, so right now I'm looking to sell a .223 bolt carrier unit and looking for a replacement SHTF gun (another AR or XCR or both).