POTENTIAL Sources for Parts/Arms

[m4weave]

Folks,
I have seen a lot of new people here (myself included) and I thought I would post a few links that I found helpful and may be of interest to you.

First, this is a compendium of links in one place:
www.ar15.com/forums/b/2_Industry.html

Also at ARFCOM, is the Equipment Exchange (like Classifieds):
www.ar15.com/forums/b/7_Equipment_Exchange.html

M4Carbine has a few forums as well:
m4carbine.net/forum.php
Near the bottom are two area of note:
Industry Forums: m4carbine.net/forumdisplay.php?f=24
and
Marketplace: m4carbine.net/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Next up, we have MidwayUSA. If you have not, you may consider getting on their email list. They do email frequently about clearance, sales, etc. They will also send a Birthday Discount email around your birthday which will allow you to get a little discount on anything, IIRC. Anyway, their site is:
www.midwayusa.com/

Brownells is another supplier that, like Midway, has a good reputation:
www.brownells.com/

Botach Tactical offers a variety of firearms related things and much more "tactical" type stuff, all shipped free:
www.botachtactical.com/

LOTS of good technical forums within some of the sites listed above too. I referenced a few in another post on a different thread.

I have no financial interest in any company listed above nor linked to from any of the above links.

While *I* have enjoyed great service from Midway, Brownells, & Botach, "past performance is no guarantee of future performance" as they say in the financial arena. Caveat Emptor, YMMV, etc.

The only thing I guarantee is a lot of links, info, and products can be found from the few links above. LOL. Well, I can't even guarantee that you'll find the products IN STOCK. Some are like finding hens' teeth. Some can be backordered.

Hopefully someone gets something out of this long winded post and, well, then "Bob's your uncle!" ;D

Happy parts hunting and feel free to add to the list.
-Mike

[hogwild]

Thanks. Every bid of information helps us new to the AR arena.

[skinnyb82]

Beware. Brownell's is known to cancel your order with an "oops, we really don't have that in stock, never did." I'm currently monkeying around with Botach because they charged my card for an order I placed last week and it's still "pending."

Midway, not taking backorders for any mags or any AR-related stuff. DSG Arms (DSGarms.com) is taking backorders for almost everything except lowers and whatnot and they actually filled a BO I had for some PMAGs (FDE too).

[lkrbuilder13]

I place an order with brownells that hey had the order "in stock" and then I got a backorder notice. I thought i emailed them and told them to cancel the order if it was backordered. About 6 weeks 10 mags showed up at my doorstep. It is amazing that most of the companys that I have placed orders with always mess stuff up. I ordered an ALexander Arms 17 HMR upper for a customer of mine in August, they told me 10-12 weeks. At week 14 I called to check on the order and they told me " when you placed your order the 10-12 weeks was when we would get the barrels in, not have your order complete. Now it is the end of feb and still no upper for my customer. Samething happened with pro mag. I placed an order for 300 mags for our shop on dec 21. I emailed to follow up and low and behold they said they didn't get the order recieved until feb 19th. I was hot.

[skinnyb82]

Brownell's has been getting on my nerves. I've ordered two BCGs from them, only to have the orders canceled because they were OOS. So, don't list them as in stock? Seems easy. And I've had two 7 rd. extended mags for my XDS on BO with them for two months, nothing. Just ordered a pair from Springfield Armory, seems they're backed up (big surprise but not like I can CC in Illinois anyway or any time soon...not the way things are going now, even with the federal court ruling).

I did backorder an ALG QMS trigger group from them, shipped FAST once it was in stock which didn't take long. I placed an order with ASC for some Grendel mags, apparently they do not have live inventory because I'm still waiting. Placed an order with CSS for a bolt, I have NO WAY of contacting them. That was a bad idea. Got some stuff on BO from DSG Arms (Spike's barrel nut, LaRue (PMAGs), Midway (STILL...windowed M3 PMAGs) and MI (handguard).