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AR-10 Questions
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I got it from AIM, but I think SGAmmo or Widener's had it for the same price (also free shipping) around Black Friday time. I pick it up at Walmart when I can, and it's only 50 cents a round there, so still pretty good.
Ack! I hope I have better luck too! Yours is the first bad experience I've heard of, so hopefully I won't have a similar issue. That really does surprise me. I've really not heard much bad about any of PSA's products (other than some of it is proprietary).
Wow... I read through that entire thread, and while it was darned scary early on, it seemed as though things were improving for folks in the more recent posts. Guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope I got a good one. Since my lower (stripped) should be one of the newer ones, maybe the trigger compatibility issues have been worked out. Some of the other stuff they were talking about, I'll admit was pretty much Greek to me.
As of now, all parts are PSA, so I am hoping they've been able to work out some of the initial bugs, at least with their own parts working together.
Yea I have to agree to two that Ive seen and shot in person were kind of lacking in the accuracy department. One I shot feed great and ran everything we feed it but it would not shoot a group into anything less than about 2.5" @ 100yrds even with match ammo. Then the other I shot had a very tough time feeding, it would jam at least 2 or 3 times per mag if not more as well as not having very good accuracy. I think the barrel QC may have been an issue at a point, so hopefully they have straightened that out.
Well today is the day. Taking it to the range. I'll either come home singing its praises or cussing it, or (most likely) something in between. I'm hoping for the first though.
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Good luck with everything!
Well I've gotta say I was feeling a lot better about it at the beginning of this thread. Now some of you guys have made me nervous!
I'm taking 9 loaded mags with me. Hopefully that will be enough to get the scope reasonably sighted in. Oh wow yea Id hope so, I could have it sighted in with about 5 shots ha ha. But you should more than enough left over for a lot of fun 
. Go out with an open mind I think they had issues with a few things when they first came out with the PA10 they have probably since fixed those issues. Let us know how it does!
. Go out with an open mind I think they had issues with a few things when they first came out with the PA10 they have probably since fixed those issues. Let us know how it does!
Oh wow yea Id hope so, I could have it sighted in with about 5 shots ha ha. But you should more than enough left over for a lot of fun
I bore-sighted it (took the upper off and looked down the bore the old fashioned way) so hopefully I'm on paper at 25 yards at least already. I'm also testing out my Krag rifle/carbine/sporter today. Not as much to go wrong with it at least! With the Krag I'm most interested to see how the 10 rounds I formed from 303 brass work. Really keeping my fingers crossed that they work well. That'll save me a lot of money over buying commercial 30-40 ammo.
Just got back from the range. I have to say that my first thoughts were, "@#$%&! all those nay-sayers were right!" 
First full P-mag I put in, couldn't even get it to chamber one round. Tried an IMI mag - stripped off the first round but didn't go all the way into battery. "Dammit!" Unloaded the IMI and put one round in. Chambered and fired just fine. Loaded 3 rounds... all worked fine. Worked up to 10... all good. 15... still had the first round not go fully into battery. Then I started thinking, "Did I even lube this thing after I put it together?" Took the bolt out and it was pretty dry - I don't think I had lubed it at all! One of the pitfalls of buying a complete, assembled upper I guess. 
Put a few drops of CLP on it and rubbed it down with my fingers and reassembled. Inserted full mag, and wham! Chambered first round and went fully into battery. No more problems after that! 
My bore sighting must have been right on. At 25 yards I was picking off half-dollar sized rocks, pieces of wood, whatever, just to function test. Moved to the 300 yard range (which is actually 346 yards). 60% steel torso at 100 yards, no problem. Got a little cocky and tried the 60% torso at the full 346 yards and hit after hit, piece of cake! All of this without touching the adjustment of the scope whatsoever. For someone used to shooting old milsurps with crappy iron sights (and old eyeballs), this was literally like shooting fish in a barrel. The ONLY other issue I had was one stovepipe when I got lazy and rested the bottom of the mag on the bench, so that was all on me. I couldn't be happier with this rifle!
I will say that it took me a little bit to re-familiarize myself with the AR platform manual-of-arms (forgetting about the bolt release, stuff like that) but with that out of the way I was happier than a pig in 
!
Only shot one paper target at 100 yards from a single bag rest and it grouped about 1.5-2" but that was without really concentrating or anything, and with the stock trigger, and 1968 WRA milsurp ammo, so no complaints there. Indy1919a4 went with me and he mentioned that he could feel the "air blast" from the muzzle brake when he was next to me, so I stood next to him when he fired it, and yeah you can feel it, but it's still nothing compared to the concussion of an 8mm or a 7.62x54R in my opinion.
I can see that I'm going to need to stock up on reloading components though... for some reason this rifle sure seems to use a lot more ammo than my bolt guns!
First full P-mag I put in, couldn't even get it to chamber one round. Tried an IMI mag - stripped off the first round but didn't go all the way into battery. "Dammit!" Unloaded the IMI and put one round in. Chambered and fired just fine. Loaded 3 rounds... all worked fine. Worked up to 10... all good. 15... still had the first round not go fully into battery. Then I started thinking, "Did I even lube this thing after I put it together?" Took the bolt out and it was pretty dry - I don't think I had lubed it at all! One of the pitfalls of buying a complete, assembled upper I guess. Put a few drops of CLP on it and rubbed it down with my fingers and reassembled. Inserted full mag, and wham! Chambered first round and went fully into battery. No more problems after that! My bore sighting must have been right on. At 25 yards I was picking off half-dollar sized rocks, pieces of wood, whatever, just to function test. Moved to the 300 yard range (which is actually 346 yards). 60% steel torso at 100 yards, no problem. Got a little cocky and tried the 60% torso at the full 346 yards and hit after hit, piece of cake! All of this without touching the adjustment of the scope whatsoever. For someone used to shooting old milsurps with crappy iron sights (and old eyeballs), this was literally like shooting fish in a barrel. The ONLY other issue I had was one stovepipe when I got lazy and rested the bottom of the mag on the bench, so that was all on me. I couldn't be happier with this rifle!
I will say that it took me a little bit to re-familiarize myself with the AR platform manual-of-arms (forgetting about the bolt release, stuff like that) but with that out of the way I was happier than a pig in !Only shot one paper target at 100 yards from a single bag rest and it grouped about 1.5-2" but that was without really concentrating or anything, and with the stock trigger, and 1968 WRA milsurp ammo, so no complaints there. Indy1919a4 went with me and he mentioned that he could feel the "air blast" from the muzzle brake when he was next to me, so I stood next to him when he fired it, and yeah you can feel it, but it's still nothing compared to the concussion of an 8mm or a 7.62x54R in my opinion.
I can see that I'm going to need to stock up on reloading components though... for some reason this rifle sure seems to use a lot more ammo than my bolt guns!
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You did great for the money.
Magpul 20 rounders are hard to beat
And M14 m1a mags are only compatable with Armalite style lowers
Magpul 20 rounders will fit DPMS style lowers. Find out which style you have before you buy mags
I fixed power swfa would be the best choice. Get ready to spend atleast 1500 for a professionally built variable power
Yep, thankfully I was warned about the mags. The IMI (Israeli) mags worked great too, with their only drawback being the lack of a dust cover. I went with a Vortex Diamondback 2-7x32 scope and I'm completely satisfied. Alan from AA Optics (INGO advertiser) price-matched one I found as Sportsman's Guide, (but had to charge sales tax of course) so I got it from him.
Just got back from the range. I have to say that my first thoughts were, "@#$%&! all those nay-sayers were right!"
My bore sighting must have been right on. At 25 yards I was picking off half-dollar sized rocks, pieces of wood, whatever, just to function test. Moved to the 300 yard range (which is actually 346 yards). 60% steel torso at 100 yards, no problem. Got a little cocky and tried the 60% torso at the full 346 yards and hit after hit, piece of cake! All of this without touching the adjustment of the scope whatsoever. For someone used to shooting old milsurps with crappy iron sights (and old eyeballs), this was literally like shooting fish in a barrel. The ONLY other issue I had was one stovepipe when I got lazy and rested the bottom of the mag on the bench, so that was all on me. I couldn't be happier with this rifle!
Only shot one paper target at 100 yards from a single bag rest and it grouped about 1.5-2" but that was without really concentrating or anything, and with the stock trigger, and 1968 WRA milsurp ammo, so no complaints there. Indy1919a4 went with me and he mentioned that he could feel the "air blast" from the muzzle brake when he was next to me, so I stood next to him when he fired it, and yeah you can feel it, but it's still nothing compared to the concussion of an 8mm or a 7.62x54R in my opinion.
I can see that I'm going to need to stock up on reloading components though... for some reason this rifle sure seems to use a lot more ammo than my bolt guns!
I was SO glad to read your review/range report.
This thread had started to worry me. I received an assembled (blemished) PA10 lower for my birthday present. I bought a PSA stripped upper (blemished) to match it, but that;s as far as I've gotten.
No extra funds at Black Friday this year.
I digress. It looks like (hopefully) they've figured out the bugs.
Still, I think I'll stick with all PSA parts to start.
Congratulations.
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