[Rifle] - Bushmaster XM-15 5.56 AR-15 Rifle W/ Fixed Carry Handle -TRADE IN -$425+tax/shipping

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

43 bucks shipped to Virginia seems high. 494.33 after taxes and everything.

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Bino-culars@reddit

Was just looking and from VA, Ty for saving me the time... Still debating on getting it

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Bino-culars@reddit

Did the good old1 hour test, if I check back and its still in stock one hour later then I buy 😂

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

That works sometimes but not on the smoking deals, which rarely come up anymore it seems. But you can usually spot those if you know the gundeals meta.

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Reasonable-Rub1437@reddit

Can you explain how to spot the good deals? I'm new and it gets tedious hitting refresh 5-6 yikes a day.

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

5 to 6 times are rookie numbers. You have to refresh constantly. like 5 to 6 times an hour.

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_That_One_Guy_@reddit

If it helps, you can add any primary arms optic and get free shipping on the whole order.

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

Thanks for the advice but I have like 4 optics laying around my house right now that I have no idea what I'm going to do with.

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prmoore11@reddit

You can return it for free after. That’s part of their guarantee on their optics

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madeformarch@reddit

Cheapest optic is $139 and this is a fixed carry handle which won't mount an optic too well so...it doesn't?

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_That_One_Guy_@reddit

If you're getting the carry handle for fun and not practicality anyways, you can mount their microprisms on carry handles. And there's mounts for other red dots.

Not to mention that the carry handle was the original tall riser for optics.

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madeformarch@reddit

I don't own a rifle yet but I really want to be like, 3 MOA accurate out to ~200-300 yards before I put any sort of optic on.

That said, thanks for the picture -- the high mounted optic looks really nice.

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

I would never. I think he was just suggesting getting an optic if I needed one for something else to get free shipping which isn't bad advice if you need an optic.

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madeformarch@reddit

That makes total sense, I was mostly just pointing out the irony

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Due_Land_8716@reddit

Provide some humor for the guy pulling the order on a fixed handle rifle paired with an optic lol

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chandler4554@reddit

20 bucks off if you sign up for sms, worked for me.

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EuphoricSpace4410@reddit

I got 4 of these through the years. The only ar15s that dont feel like youre going to break by tossing them

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DP2219@reddit (OP)

Trade in Monolithic Colt for $800

https://www.primaryarms.com/Used-Colt-M4-Carbine-Monolithic

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Bubbly-Celery-4096@reddit

What do you guys think about this one?

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They’re super cool but a personal no for me. School of the American rifle did a video on changing out the barrel and without proprietary tools and parts, it’s pretty brutal. If you don’t play legos with your AR and doubt you’ll ever shoot out a barrel I would 100% be in for one.

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Bubbly-Celery-4096@reddit

Great points. I’ll have to watch SOTARs video but your comment does make me want it less

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Next_Emphasis_9424@reddit

They have really started to pop up used everywhere recently as LEO trade ins. If I had the extra cash and storage space I would probably get one. But as it stands I like that I can work on all of my ARs with the same tools.

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dovahbe4r@reddit

This is a pretty damn sweet price for one of these. I think mine was $600 at King's at the height of the carry handle craze and I thought I didn't come out too bad. Almost tempted to grab one of these too.

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Direct-Example@reddit

Dammit you guys. With the $20 text code I was in for $475 shipped. Always wanted a fixed handle.

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Jewlon@reddit

How do you activate the text code ?

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Direct-Example@reddit

Text 77343, then they'll ask you for your birthday to age verify and send you the code

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Due_Land_8716@reddit

Same, for no reason other than I don't have a fixed carry handle build.

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dovahbe4r@reddit

You should absolutely pick one up, if anything just for the vibes. It's 400 bucks, that's cheaper than a PSA shitblaster. Fuckit we ball.

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madeformarch@reddit

If it's a Windham roll mark I'm in one for one, 10 mags, and a case of ammo. I will 100% fuck up tonight if it's got Windham roll marks.

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dovahbe4r@reddit

I made that edit and now I'm realizing that I'm not actually sure if any A2s were made outside of Wyndham. And even if there were they'd probably be from an early Ilion production run. IMO a very safe bet that it's a Wyndham rifle but it would be nice if they clarified or had higher quality pics.

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madeformarch@reddit

That sounds familiar but it's also been a solid 6 months since I did a deep spectrum dive on this exact rifle. I'm about ready to take a chance, fucking $515 after tax, shipping and my FFL for a used rifle with no mags, but there's a decent chance it's the rifle I want.

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ohyeahbonertime@reddit

The rifles themselves are great, I have a couple. I replace the grip, stock, and trigger and you're in for a bulletproof and accurate gun.

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dovahbe4r@reddit

515 all in still isn't bad. You can definitely blow half a rack in worse ways. You should do it just for funsies.

Also I did some quick tism research on the fellas' behalf and the Windham guns have the Bushmaster font inside the bottom of the snake. All the ones that are made everywhere else have a big "BUSHMASTER" billboard across the middle of the snake. This one appears to not be like that but I still can't 100% make it out.

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FrankyBenjamin@reddit

Anyone know if these are HBAR?

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WowBruhReborn@reddit

Let me guess. Maryland?

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FrankyBenjamin@reddit

Going way back in time to paging through the bushmaster catalogue I have a vague memory that the barrels that were standard profile and not M4 in front of the sight base tended to be HBAR under the handgaurds.

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AbomindableSiVan@reddit

Looks like a standard 16” gov profile with carbine length gas. So .750” diameter give or take. This is all speculation as the listing doesn’t say shit about the barrel. I’d say there’s potential for chrome lining though.

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DP2219@reddit (OP)

Trade in Remington 870 $250+tax/shipping

https://www.primaryarms.com/remington-870-12-gauge-shotgun-5-round-traade-in

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BBQSauce61@reddit

Are these police magnums?

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Sir_Celcius@reddit

Says chamber is 3" so no.

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DP2219@reddit (OP)

Doesn’t the fact they have a 3” chamber suggest these could be police magnums? Either a magnum, police magnum, or express magnum?

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Sir_Celcius@reddit

You may be right. I figured it would be 3.5" chamber instead. I may just be a silly fella

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Norskamerikaner@reddit

3" is magnum, 3.5" is super magnum.

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DP2219@reddit (OP)

The descriptions says they have a 3” chamber and if you zoom in on the fourth pic on the product page, a police magnum is pictured. so I am hoping they are but cannot say for sure

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Bino-culars@reddit

OOS on that deal if anyone was looking, had that added to my cart and its gone 😞

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WillitsThrockmorton@reddit

OOS :(

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Danimin420@reddit

I want…. But I don’t need

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PM-ME-UR-DESKTOP@reddit

I need… but I can’t have

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OptimalScholar4048@reddit

I have... but I can't need

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Danimin420@reddit

I’ve got too many AR’s in the safe… WANT an A2 upper… but I literally don’t have a use for it

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Jaruut@reddit

None of your other ARs function as A2 style, this one does. Sounds like a good use to me.

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TheEliteFiveOh@reddit

You’re one of those “bad influence” types my mama always warned me about

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420_So_Skills@reddit

I might buy one to canabalize into seperate builds

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99_To_Life@reddit

Man, I want it but do I needs another 5.56? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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FartBoxActual@reddit

Yes. The answer is always yes.

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FoxPew@reddit

Awesome price, not sure it will get much better than this. $482.74 total including $20 off code for SMS sign up. Needless to say, I grabbed one lol 🔥

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madeformarch@reddit

Is this made by the original Windham folks? This would be my first AR and I want the fixed carry handle

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sickels61@reddit

If its a fixed carry handle bushmaster its safe to say there are the higher quality ( other colt) fixed carry handle rifle. I mean for the longest time bushmaster and colt were essentially the top tier in ar production until the rest of America caught up after 2004.

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

That's like a year after the AWB expired. Imagine how much shit would've been developed if the AWB never existed. It essentially set the AR development market back a decade.

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I_had_the_Lasagna@reddit

It may have never exploded quite like it did though. The awb sunsetting caused an insane boom in ars.

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

I think research and development was stifled because they couldn't sell to the civilian market for the most part. So all the companies that weren't Colt or Bushmaster or smart people who make shit didn't see a reason to not develop past the militaries needs.

I may be wrong but the civilian market is significantly larger than the military one so why would they bother to develop for a market that they can't sell to?

I'm sure the truth is somewhere is the middle

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Mahlegos@reddit

I may be wrong but the civilian market is significantly larger than the military one so why would they bother to develop for a market that they can't sell to?

Military and law enforcement contracts are far more lucrative than selling to the civilian market. That’s why every company with the capability goes in on them. The civilian market is the safety net for the bids that don’t pay off, and whatever innovation made in the pursuit of contracts eventually trickles down to us.

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sickels61@reddit

Thats the year the awb expired, bushmaster and colt were essentially the only two companies making ar's at that point. When it expired you either bought colt or bushmaster until the market got flooded with no name and some of the new big name ar producers. I firmly believe without the awb the price and quality of the ar in the american market wouldn't be what it is today. We always want what we cant have and we definitely would have likely found aomething more exciting to fixate on.

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SierraDespair@reddit

Is this one made in Maine?

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Few-Entrepreneur-316@reddit

I bought the bushmaster QRC for 430 brand new like 8 years ago, so considering these are abused and ran through not the best price.

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TheUnrulyYeti@reddit

Brother a Big Mac will almost run you $430 nowadays. To compare something to prices from 8 years ago adds nothing useful, no offense

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Few-Entrepreneur-316@reddit

Im just not trying to accept the fact everything is double nowadays yet worse quality. Make it make sense

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TheUnrulyYeti@reddit

It does indeed suck

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Tony_Hawks_Butthole@reddit

Fuck thats a good deal

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BlueminOnion420@reddit

Can I get this in Maryland or what

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evanbradley14@reddit

From the looks of the picture that PA used, it has an HBAR barrel, not an m4 profile barrel. You’re gonna have to give customer service a call to verify, but it is kinda weird that PA didn’t say the profile of the barrel.

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Few-Entrepreneur-316@reddit

MD Dont sound like a free state to me so prob not

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sickels61@reddit

The shipping alone robs this deal, however for sub $500 its pretty difficuly for you to get a decent quality (carry handle) upper, let alone the whole rifle. Definitely a , if you dont have one and want one deal, but not the best deal you could possibly get. It's primary arms though so im not suprised.

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Rfelipe647@reddit

I HATE LIVING IN ILLINOIS 😭😭😭

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clicktoseemyfetishes@reddit

Realistically idk if I care about anything already on there except the upper. What would be the best deal for just a stripped fixed carry handle upper?

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Appropriate_Till6129@reddit

You can look at the PSA H&R uppers.

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KaminTheSon@reddit

I can only speak as to my own experience, but the XM-15 I inherited is a dirty bitch. She eats everything. And I never thought I'd want a carry handle, but now I think they're pretty neat. Vibes.

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Zombiesgoboom@reddit

What twist rate is this?

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WooHoo2You@reddit

What is your use case when you are concerned with the long range accuracy of a 16" used carbine Bushmaster pencil profile barrel and fixed carry handle (so would make pretty poor magnified optic host)?

Barrel twist = yeah

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Jrofalk@reddit

I mean, I am sure it fucking twists.

It’s like someone asking me what speakers I have in my 97 Ford Ranger.

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