(Before It's News)
As I’ve mentioned before in my SurvivalBlog articles, I’m am swamped with requests to do firearms articles on particular firearms. While I would love to accommodate all the requests I get, it is impossible. I know a lot of folks believe that gun writers get guns for free to write about, that simply isn’t the case. We have to request a firearm from gun companies, I either have to return it, or buy it when I’m done testing them. As much as I’d love to purchase all the firearms I write about, I can’t do it – my finances don’t allow it – not even close. So, I return many of the firearms I write about. And, many times, I have to pay for the return shipping, which means, it actually cost me money to do an article – I’m a volunteer editor at SurvivalBlog, receive no pay. So, as much as I’d love to write about all the firearms that you request me to review, I simply can’t do it. What I will do is, from time-to-time is, request some of the newest firearms that I think would be great for survival purposes – street, wilderness or end of the world survival.
I’ve also mentioned before that I’m a habitual gun trader – and there is one very good reason for this – I don’t have the funds to purchase all the firearms I’d like to purchase, so I do a lot of gun trading. I honestly don’t own as many firearms as most folks believe. So, with this said, let’s take a look at one of my latest gun trades. I recently ran into a great deal on a brand-new DPMS AR-15 lower receiver, with a fixed butt stock and fully assembled. My local gun shop also had a used M4 Carbine upper receiver, with the complete bolt carrier group. So, I did some horse trading, and walked out with the DPMS and unknown make of upper M4 Carbine receiver group for some testing.
The DPMS lower receiver had the fixed butt stock as mentioned. And, just when I needed a telescoping 4 or 6 position butt stock – my local gun shop didn’t have one in-stock. However, they did have a banned no position “telescoping” stock – which means its basically a fixed position stock, but it was going to look better on my project M4 than the fixed butt stock that came with the DPMS lower receiver. Also, the upper receiver I got in the trade – someone had did a camo job on it – spray paint – and it was painted in blue and gray – I’m assuming this was meant to be some sort of urban camo job – and whoever did it, didn’t do a very good job.
The first thing I did was swap out the fixed butt stock for the “telescoping” butt stock on the lower receiver, not a problem. I examined the lower receiver and everything was working as it should.
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