Bushmaster

wallmaxx

Anyone have an educated opinion on the quality / value of this particular firearm from Bushmaster.

My only experience with anything even similar was the Colt Arms M4. Other than gas tube fouling after a few hundred rounds, it was balls-on accurate out to 300m.

I am not too familiar with Bushmaster.





Product Description:

Thirty years of AR type rifle innovation combined to create a unique Bushmaster Carbine!A special Carbine featuring years of Bushmaster innovation from Muzzle Brake to Buttstock – including…

• AK47 Flash Hider – Developed from a Russian design and first manufactured in .223 caliber in the mid ‘80s
• 16” Dissipator Heavy Fluted Barrel – a design unique to Bushmaster (though copied since). First shipped in the early 90’s, this Chrome Lined ChroMoly steel barrel features “full radius” front sight placement in combination with a rear (Dissipator) positioned gas block for ultra reliability
• Milled Gas Block – allowing placement under the handguards. This “shaved sight base” concept was also utilized on our first competition/varmint rifle – the V Match
• A1 “Round” Front Sight Post – adapted from the Viet Nam era M16A1s, and still popular today
• Four Rail Split Handguard – first introduced in 2004, featuring Four Picatinny Rails positioned at 12-3-6-9 o’clock, multiple cooling vents, and easy installation into existing Delta Ring and Handguard Cap. Rubber rail covers for comfort and rail protection are included
• A3 Removable Carry Handle on “Flat-top” Upper – introduced to Bushmaster customers in 1995 to offer a solid optic mounting platform on the Upper while retaining Carry Handle convenience (A3 Carry Handle introduced in ‘96)
• “Stay-Straight” A3 Rear Sight from our 2007 DCM-XR Series Rifles with 1/4 Minute Windage Knob
• Carbon 15 Charging Handle and Ambidextrous Safety Selector – from our acquisition of Arizona’s Professional Ordnance in 2003
• 6-Position Telestock – a Bushmaster LE and Military standard since 2000
• Also included: ErgoGrip Tactical Pistol Grip; Nickel Plated Pivot/Takedown Pins; BMAS Sling Swivel Stud with Q.D. Sling Swivels; Laser Engraved Bushmaster 30th Anniversary Logo on Magazine Well; 30 Rd. Magazine; Black Web Sling, Safety Block, Manual – all shipped in a lockable hard case.

Bodger

Well, I don't know how educated my opinion could be considered, but I have just purchased the Calif. legal version (fixed 10 round magazine) of this weapon. I also bought a 10X Leupold scope for it. I have yet to fire it, but it feels like a good rifle so far and I have read and heard good things about it.
I plan to take it out for a test squirt soon.

joasis

I have shot one, and was not impressed. I have a Mini 14 and Mini 30....the .30 beats a Bushmaster hands down and is just over half the price. You can get 30 round clips for the .30 as well.

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rotarex

whats with Americans and guns

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wallmaxx

What's with Canadians and their aversion to guns....?

And technically a "gun" is a crew served weapon system. What you see pictured here is a weapon or rifle or girl friend.

psst...I was born Canadian...then I chose a better life for myself...one where I can have all the guns I want and I can use them to ensure my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. (Defensively of course.)

Bodger

Funny you should ask that question since Canada has been under our defense umbrella for quite a while now.

Bodger

Thank you. Drives me nuts when I hear that.
Also "clip" instead of magazine. Unless it's an M-1, that just ain't the proper terminology.
"This is my rifle, this is my gun! This is for fighting, this is for fun!"

Bodger

I'm still amazed that in the People's Republik of Kalifornia the legislators who passed the law prohibiting anything over a 10 round magazine actually think it reduces gun crime.
I can dump the empty low-cap mag out of my Glock 21 and seat a fully loaded replacement pretty damn quick.

wallmaxx

For them folk not to keen on firearm terminology...a clip refers to individual bullets connected to each other...sorta like collated nails.

A magazine would be a fabricated container for a group of individual rounds to be housed and sequentially chambered into the weapon that the magazine was made for.

S - SLAP
P - PULL
O - OBSERVE
R - RELEASE
T - TAP
S - SQUEEZE

P - PULL
O - OBSERVE
P - PUSH
P - PULL

Load - Chamber - Lock - Fire - Unlock - Extract - Eject

joasis

I think any of us can be excused for using the term "clip" instead of magazine, or "mag" since acceptable terminology is always adapting and changing. I didn't get to do the shooting side of basic training, since pilots don't carry M16's.

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mickeyco

We're getting ready to invade Canada, what are you going to do about it, fight us off with sticks?




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mickeyco

They'd love my 100, 150 and 250 round magazines for rifles, I have those expanded capacity one for handguns as well, I bought a pile of them right before the ban. I also bought a pile of those Raven Arms .25's to use for gun exchange programs, they cost $25, you get $50 to $100 when you turn them in, yep those gun exchange program really work.

Now I'm going to go out and kill thousands of people, because I have guns with large capacity magazines, unless they ban them first, or maybe I'll just run out and get breakfast, I'm hungry, but if the breakfast isn't good .................


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DecksEtc

Let's not be too critical of Canadians. We've lost some good soldiers...

Highway of Heros

Bodger

True enough. I saw that Highway of Heroes piece that NBC did a few weeks ago.
All kidding aside, Canada's troops are with us in the war on terror and that makes us brothers in arms.
It seems as though our American KIA's are coming back with as little fanfare as possible. Haven't seen anything on the news in a long time.

Bodger

If I recall, most of the pilots I served around favored a .38 revolver.
I did see a Peter Pilot once though that had a Colt .45 strapped on.

Bodger

You're right. Either way, it gets the point across and everyone knows what you're talking about when you say either clip or mag.
I just had the difference between the two tattooed on my brain about 37 years ago.
In basic training, if someone referred to the magazine for their M-16 as a "clip" it was a sure way to catch hell and then some from our senior drill instructor. He had a real thing about that. He was one anal retentive MF'er. You could not have gotten a dime up that guy's ass with a jackhammer. MAG not CLIP.
Funny thing was, he never explained what the difference was or why a mag isn't a clip.

joasis

We qualified with the .45 and .38SP. Aviators were not issued sidearms unless they were deployed, at least then...don't know about now...I do believe I read that pilots are issued the 9 now.

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Bodger

Same with us. I never even saw an M-16 stateside after basic.
"Then" for you was Vietnam era?
Getting back to OP. I actually bought the Bushmaster without ever having fired one mainly out of nostalgia for the old "Mattell".
I have fired a Mini-14 a few times, liked it.
What specifically did you not care for with the Bushmaster?

joasis

'87-'88 RIF under the scale back....meaning the end of the Reagan build up. 120 or so pilots coming out of advanced rotary wing flight, 40 or so flying slots available, 10 year inactive recall if accepting the early RIF, or a non flying job...what would you have done? I was 14 when we (US forces) left Vietnam...but my instructors were all old guys that flew VE.

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joasis

Funny thing about memories....like going on a RON and actually carrying the M-60's in the pockets, and they had full ammo loads...to simulate a full combat load. Get to Ft. Leonard Wood, and have the thrill of eating cold MRE's, and no shelter...sleeping on the ship with only the protective covers used as bed and blanket. Miserable....but, got to do an unauthorized shoot with the 60.....neat. Of course, there was some explaining to do to the armorer when the cans came back light. Glad that only the crew chief has to check out guns and ammo.

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