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Kaos
A friend is considering buying an Olympic Arms AR from Wal-Mart. Does anyone have an opinion as to the quality of their rifles?
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  • Kaos
    I have an Olympic arms AR-15. I put a scope on it and was sighting
    it in at a range. At 100 yds I was putting them in a one inch circle
    and was very impressed and satisfied with the carbine until I fired
    it and it broke apart. In two pieces, it broke where the upper receiver and the barrel meet, behind the retaining ring for the upper
    hand guard. Why would that happen? No fast and furious firing. Using
    a bench with my arm supporting it. Factory ammo. Has anyone else had
    this happen to them?
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  • iwannausername
    I had one back before the bans of the 90s. 16" heavy barrel, swapped the collapsing stock with a colt lightweight sporter stock, great gun. Reliable as heck, accurate too. They were about $500 then wholesale.
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  • Nwcid
    I had a Olympic rifle and sold it to get my OA-93 style pistol. I have had no trouble with either. My buddy still has his Olympic rifle and an OA-93 style pistol like mine and no troubles as well. I also have Bushmaster, Colt and and EA Corp AR-15s and all are good guns. All of them are great guns. Two big points I will make are if you are looking for good resale Colt will be best. If you are looking at one of the 24" varmint guns the standard Bushmaster Varminiter is the way to go. If you are looking for an inexpensive good plinker the Olympic is great. On other big plus is Olympic will build almost anything you want on an AR platform as they started as a BBL/Custom shop.

    Just remember there are no stupid questions, just stupid people asking questions.

    John
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  • v35
    I have a kit built, Olympic 16" PCR99 plus three additional uppers which I assembled from parts using flat top uppers.
    It came with a 16" SS barrel that is very accurate. I subsequently machined away a lot of extra metal under the handguard and contoured it to the military configuration. Weight matters and accuracy was unaffected.
    Olympic used to have a or the, top reputation for AR barrels. As I recall their cut rifled barrels were their best.They also offer other calibers.
    One of mine is a 16", 6mmx45 which is the 223 opened up to 6mm.
    It's also very accurate.
    Whichever way you go, expect that you will need an adjustable
    trigger and a free floating handguard for best accuracy.
    If you can get these factory installed you can save a hassle later on.
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  • danski26
    We have a dozen or so olympics in our armory of which I am in charge of for the past three years. My experience is that they are junk! Broken handguards, broken buttstocks, broken bolts, broken gas tubes, worn trigger groups poor accuracy and malfunctions are normal with olympics. As they are deadlined we replace with colts and my job gets a little easier. For civilians olympic offers lifetime warranty. Buy one and you will probably be sending it back a lot. Wish I could!

    0311 semper fi
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  • SKYDIVER386
    quote:Originally posted by danski26
    We have a dozen or so olympics in our armory of which I am in charge of for the past three years. My experience is that they are junk! Broken handguards, broken buttstocks, broken bolts, broken gas tubes, worn trigger groups poor accuracy and malfunctions are normal with olympics. As they are deadlined we replace with colts and my job gets a little easier. For civilians olympic offers lifetime warranty. Buy one and you will probably be sending it back a lot. Wish I could!

    0311 semper fi


    I'll second this opinion. Although Olympic's barrels are top notch, the rest of the parts they manufacture are just junk. Save the headaches and buy a better brand like Bushmaster, Colt, or Armalite. You will be glad you did in the long run.

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