I am not sure where to put this query but I am looking to buy a LWRC AR from Top Gun Supply located in Chesterland, OH. I have never dealt with them before so I would appreciate any comments pro or con about them before I place an order.
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Top Gun is good, but why LWRC.
There is litterly nothing they make that someone else doesn't make better, for less money.
They are in all honesty a waste of money and gimmick products.
Lets just say they are close to home and I have some friends of the fam that have a very vested interested in them doing well. Doesn't change the fact they are not worth buying anything from.
Are you stuck on that particular store?
I have ordered from them before with no problems.
For LWRC make sure to check out Northwest Tactical and Modern Outfitters.
matt and Marcy helped me a great deal to get out of a shitty pre order situation I had with LWRC AND I will be getting my next L dub from them.
From the LWRC forums Modern Outfitters seem to have a great rep also
Respectively disagree. If you know something I don't please share which brand or rifle you think would be better. Are you basing this on personal experience or information otherwise acquired.
Respectively disagree. If you know something I don't please share which brand or rifle you think would be better. Are you basing this on personal experience or information otherwise acquired.
I, for one, am sick of people pussy-footing around. Just tell us what you really think!
Man, talk about an axe to grind.
We all get it, you are the master, LWRC don't know shit.
Somehow, they manage to stay in business and mine is a shooter and has never had even one minor malfunction unless you count the time I closed the bolt on a range flag.
Haven't you beat this particular horse to death yet?
Same deal in the AR-10 world. For less money you can get a LMT/OBR/GAP10/SCAR17 , all vastly superior, proven military weapons. Price to price with the JP, again only an idiot would chose LWRC over JP (for a game gun)
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Hey man, might be rough around the edges but my advice is spot on. I'll take the pepsi challenge any day of the week.
Cobra, would you mind explaining the reference of JP as a "game gun?" I know JP sponsors and supports 3G comps, but these statements are constantly made about his rifles as "game guns." Are they not good for long range, precision work, hunting or home defense?
You may have been around with weapons for 10 +years and think you are the know all, be all and end all of the weapons world. You obnoxious ill mannered comment "Noveske prices their shit in the same realm, but unless the person is a complete idiot or novice, no one is choosing LWRC over Noveske" is completely unwarranted. Since I already own 2 Noveske N4 Afghan's 1 with a SS barrel and a Monolithic receiver. The other with a CL barrel and the MUIR receiver I guess my IQ must have dropped 100 points and I became an idiot by your description of any one who would choose an LWRC. Since I have been shooting and collecting for over 40 years. I guess Alzheimer is setting in.
You are certainly free to express your opinion on any product pro or con but does it have to be done in such a boorish and uncouth manner.
Almost everyone I have seen posts on this board do so in a professional manner. Cant you find a way to express you opinions in a more gentile manner. Then perhaps you would be taken more seriously. When I read posts like your I completely disregard them. As Shakespeare once wrote "A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing". Especially you last comment "Like anything in life, most people are oblivious and ignorant to the nuances and details in anything....Politics, cooking, fluid dynamics.....whatever. Guns are no different. Shit, most people are just plain fucking stupid to begin with". All opinions have value, some a lot more than others what a sad out look on the world.
You still haven't answered my question are you basing you opinion of LWRC on personal experience or just something you heard about. I have owned LMT, Stag, DMPS and Wilson. I own LWRCs and don't consider myself a dumb ass though many others may. But I do post my opinions based on my experience and not something I read on the internet. I have been shooting for 49 of my 65 years and have some experience to base my opinions on.
As for piston systems the best quote and forget who said it is "Those that want one don't need one and those that need one don't want one. Never the less our military seems set on the HK with a piston system. I own five gas operated rifles and four DI rifles and have no complaints on either.
Its easy to sell snake oil to ignrorant and uninformed buyers. Hi Point must make fantastic weapons based on your logic that they are still in business.....
I'm just being honest. It's your money and time tha'ts being wasted.
Hell for less money you can get a SR-15 Mod 1, which by many is considered the finest AR-15 rifle money can buy (And yes, it really is), less than the LWRC.
I quit reading after this. Talk about a name as the selling point, reminds me of John Deere.
Try Modern Outfitters as another mentioned, I have read good feedback for them. Might have to ring them on the phone..
CobraCutter seems a bit butt hurt by the piston LWRC ! Shesh, why so hostile, is Ford better than Chevy, 1911 vs the Glock, Grape soda better than Kool-Aid?
I assure you sir, I am neither ignorant nor uninformed, being a gun collector and shooter for nearly 60 of my 71 years. I'm also a mechanical engineer and well acquainted with the design. I did due diligence on my gun before I purchased it. I did the same with my SR-15 when I bought that. Reed Knight did help me with that decision.
As to my time and money, you needn't concern yourself, I have plenty of both.
It's not a question, its a fact. Top shooters in industry and the military would agree. Most shooters who are turned on, would agree.
There is a reason why they hardly ever go for sale on the secondary market.
I can build an equivalent of just about any AR on the market from COTS(JP is the other, although you can buy their parts). KAC products , you cannot. The amount of money and time that has gone into their products shows. They were building SR-25's for the military before most people in the industry even knew what an AR-15 was.
Cobracutter,
For such vitriol agaisnt LWRC you have said little in terms of objective reports to back up your claims. With few exceptions i woukd venture to say that most of us LWRC owners have been more than pleased with their rifles. Despite what you say there are ldubs being fielded by some military units. That alone wouldnt prove anything anyhow. But to say tey cant hold up in austere conditions and are lesser rifles than the ones you mentioned? Sure buddy. Your axe to grind is obvious although the reasons for it are not.
Are they a bit pricey? Sure, definitely a bit overpriced but the ones ii have run without a hitch and make me confident they would work just fine should something go down. Oh, and they are extremely accurate for me. Maybe i just got lucky.
Funny how KAC is not mentioned much here but you hear GAP and JP. If you want to believe your posts, go ahead.
The OP has got his info, most good and from non biased users, job done.
"Most LWRC owners are hobbiest's at best. New /novice gun owners with the random fan boy. Dirt shooters and people who as I said earlier, wouldn't know the difference between DPMS and Daniel Defense."
I said over and out butI just can not let your least statement stand. Just everything about what to said is nonsense. The five friends that have LWCS rifles are all long time match shooters, as I am, and put thousands of rounds down range in all types of matches. Assuming that I already have an one, I put over 10K rounds thru both Class III weapons and others every year. I am hardly a novice or a fan boy. I am willing to bet most of the responders that disagree with you are not novices or 2 times a year dirt shoot shooters and know the difference between low end AR's and higher end ones. What evidence do you have otherwise?
Is the LWRC expensive, yes. Is the SR 15 a top tier Ar absolutely. Is the SR line over priced compared to the LMT or OBR, yes. Are they worth the premium they charge over the LMT, OBR, not to me.
What imakes the SR 15 so much better than an equivalent DI LMT CQB that I own? Give us empirical eveidence not here-say or your opinion.
Match shooters are not warriors.
If you don't know why the SR15 is better than comparable DI guns, you really shouldn't even be commenting here. That just shows your ignorance.
My evidence is your claim. If you cannot discern the differences in weapons, quality, build, reliability and real world proven designs... then you again, should not be commenting due to your ignorance on the subject.
...you are just a blowhard with an opinion!
CC, why do you continue to avoid the question?
Please give solid specific facts on why you say LWRC is inferior? If you can't provide solid facts please provide us with your opinion in specific detail as to why they are inferior. If you can't do that, then you are just a blowhard with an opinion!
CC,
In my short time here, you are the only poster I have ever encountered who has never once backed up his opinion with a single fact when called to do so.
You may well be active military or ex-military, a gun assembler and even and armorer, however unless you have actually managed to machine parts or even make your own parts to supplement and improve the reliability and/or accuracy of a modern firearm, you are not a builder.
You are rude and a blowhard and I wish to offer you congratulations on making my ignore list. To the remainder of the forum, my apologies for the name calling but, in this case, I feel it was warranted.
It's not a question, its a fact. Top shooters in industry and the military would agree. Most shooters who are turned on, would agree.
There is a reason why they hardly ever go for sale on the secondary market.
I can build an equivalent of just about any AR on the market from COTS(JP is the other, although you can buy their parts). KAC products , you cannot. The amount of money and time that has gone into their products shows. They were building SR-25's for the military before most people in the industry even knew what an AR-15 was.
If your too fucking lazy to take the information presented in this very thread and do your own research, then you deserve to be ignorant.
I am Rude. I have no patience for stupidity,laziness or ignorance.
Yeah...and they are still choking and having to be sent back, according to a family member in MARSOC who is responsible for his unit's weapons. He said the SCAR Heavy was great, and that the enhanced SR25 was exactly the spec they needed...just executed poorly and that he was sick of trying to keep them running. For someone hating on "fanbois" I think I smell a KAC enthusiast..which is cool...just don't try to preach to us like your channeling Gen Patton. It's not working.
And quoting anything off M4C...I'm not sure whether to dismiss that forum as a drama club or a circle jerk...I'm gonna go with both.
I think someone can give their opinion while being tactful and respectful. Going out of your way to point out your rudeness & then call out others as stupid, lazy, and ignorance doesn't help with the discussion at hand.
As I would agree, I would rather have a DI ar in comparison to a piston ar in regards to accuracy (much less moving parts in my opnion), I'm not going to knock others down for having such weapons. Has nothing to do with being "butt hurt" or what ever disrespectful comments. I have much respect for guys like killshot that use & prefer such weapons & promote such AR's to their fullest potential. What ever works best for you.
Make your point, back it up with evidence and pictures, and simply be respectful with your opinion.