I've never owned a complete Anderson rifle ir pistol.I have however and do own Anderson lowe parts kits and they have never let me down. Thanks fir the video and product update evaluation.
Bro, ignore the haters, seriously. SJS comes to mind every time they speak. Small johnson syndrome. They're insecure and always worried about showing up to the range with the big named over priced stuff that doesn't do a damn thing that Anderson won't do day after day. I've been very fortunate to belong to a very large and super nice private range for 8 years now. Many of our members have the best of the best and that's what they enjoy. They're a generous lot and as such I've been able to shoot a whole lot of firearms I couldn't afford to buy these days. I'm always very grateful for their tremendous generosity and always leave them with a great compliment on said firearm and of course a humble thank you very much. On the drive home from the range my wife and I will talk about what we were able to try out that day. 9 outta 10 times, we come to the same conclusion, yeah it's a beautiful piece, but nowhere near worth the money in our humble opinion. We're not operators or hugely competitive high end competition shooters. We're enthusiastic shooting sports participants who are grateful as heck that there are so many nice options out there that allow us to compete in our club level competitions. I love my Anderson AM-15. I love my Taurus TX-22 Competition, and I just filled out my 4473 for a new Taurus GX4 Carry today. That was $308 shipped to my FFL. The Sig XMacro I considered for a minute was $750 to $850. Taurus made my decision for me. My regular TX-22 has north of 50K rounds down range. My G3 TORO is approaching 15K rounds down range. They're both outstanding for what I want. My competition 9, an all stock Gen 1 Canik SFX is holding up like a champ and it's seen a ton of use over the years. My point is, buy what you like and you know it works for you. That 11 1/2 Anderson obviously had some major heavy use. I could see from the leftover gunk after you wiped her down. The rifling in the barrel looked in great shape in that one still photo. Frick the haters man. This was a superb video and your response was ON POINT. I'm really happy we got into a little tiff (I didn't word a response to a stream correctly in the comments) because it brought me back to the channel. You're money my friend, and I appreciate the brutal honesty. Cheers
All of my AR uppers and lowers are manufactured by Anderson. Researched the product thoroughly and made the purchases. I do have one “beater” for steel case ammo that’s comprised of an Alex Pro Firearms lower and a Bear Creek Arsenal upper and I just purchased a Diamondback complete rifle for a ridiculous cost effective price. Again, researched the product, watched others shoot the rifle on RU-vid, and felt confident in my choice. My rifles may not cost $1,500.00 and up but I don’t feel outgunned by any means and I believe my Andersons and Diamondback are combat effective weapons.
Thank you. Ive been a handgun guy, but see that long guns need to be a part of my collection, for all the reasons. So many reasons. I appreciate straight forward information. I cant stand all the gatekeeping classist snobism involved in the community. Not every person can just drop 2k at the basic whim. We should be encouraging the community to grow. We should encourage competition among manufacturers. These things drive progress. If i can spend $6-700 on an instrument that performs well, i will do so. These snobs out there.. do you only wear fancy name brand tee shirts? Designer jeans? Well, go ahead lil dandy boys.. do your thang. I was taught that real men snd women dont need name brand reassurance to feel cool. I understand thst there are quality levels. This creator never once said this is top line gear. This was made clear several times. I like this channel more and more every time i watch a vid.
Anderson,Radical,ect. are obviously not BCM or SOLGW but I’ve never had an issue with one of them except a BCA .350 legend that didn’t like certain mags.
Fuckin Boss intro! Hey, the facts are this, your body aint gonna give a stale fart difference if the bullet shot in your body and you start leaking plasma, if it was shot from a $600/$1600/$3200 gun!.. The arrow does not make the Indian
@@RTTGunsGear I've got DelTon, ATI, DPMS, PSA that within 100 yards, I can drill an paper plate all day long. The guy that trains frequently with his $600 Poverty Pony, and can hit his targets all day long or the Guy that has a dust bunny Knights SR15 who goes to the range to show off his spendy toy, but can't capitalize on that $3000+ investment, has wasted his money! I know, I have some high end ARs that I'd sell if I could do I could put more funds into ammo. My Wilson Combat AR15 gets ran daily dry fire and depending upon the weather and work makes trips to the range 2 times a month. I am going to be finding a 800+ yard range soon, and going to be making it a DMR and only running 75-77 grain target ammo, GPR is my DelTon, I've put a Roscoe barrel on it, Rave trigger, super 42 buffer spring and H1 buffer, and BCM BCG, it's just a great all around rifle now, and soon the YHM Suppressed upper and it will become the home defense/backpack gun. Expensive but happy hobby
@@RTTGunsGear Will do, I was there for work and my boss is still a little nervous about our channel existing, so I was trying to keep it low key. Either way, I feel like a chode for not saying hello! Thanks for subbing man, we just started in march and are still figuring it out.
Bought an AERO lower and trigger pin holes out of spec and did nothing but walk out. Brand new lower and uppers no matter which was loose. Turned around and bought a Pony lower and works great tight fitment and no pins walking even feels better shooting. I have 4 lowers now and not one problem with them. What matters is that it’s made correctly regardless of the manufacturer. I’ll stand with Anderson before I choose AERO
Yes they do I’m a retired marine and US Marshall the AR I had in my trunk had a Anderson lower I had a SW MP 15 it was so loose fitting between between the upper and lower hated that so I built my own with and Anderson lower I have at least 6 different uppers in different calipers all fit tight on my 2 Anderson lowers
@@jamesstephenson2346 my second Anderson lower I use for long range shooting I put a timney drop in trigger in it well worth it I have a BCA upper in 6.5 Grendel at 500 yards I can put every bullet in a 3 inch group 6.5 Grendel is an incredible round same velocity and speed as a 308 and energy
The funny truth is all the gun snobs talking trash with their DD and Troy industries Gucci guns and $30k in NODS and gear would be the first to get clapped by 'Bubba' with his PSA Feedom AR and Polymer 80 home build pistol when the SHTF...
Anderson is far from trash, my first ever build was a PSA kit with an Anderson lower, 2nd rifle was a BCM upper with an Anderson lower, in those days you could buy a stripped Anderson lower out the door for 50 bucks. I then moved on to using Aero Lowers and BCM uppers and now run a Daniel Defense DDM4V7, each step was a noticeable jump in quality (though the BCM guns were better gassed than my DD)This gun makes alot of sense for 600 or under, but if we get into the 700 dollar territory, a BCM upper and complete PSA lower (or Aero or even Anderson lower) are the way to go for a duty grade rifle IMO. Though this gun would be absolutely fine as a training rifle, home defense rifle, truck gun or plinker. Andersons QC has definitely improved, I’d say it’s better than PSA, and close if not on par with Aero which had QC problems of their own a year or 2 ago.
I'm not overly impressed with DD. Especially for the money. And you put more faith in PSA than I ever would. But I've also seen far more PSA rifles that had either major to minor issues, that ones that actually ran well. But I do 100% agree with you that there are definitely levels in this game. And the quality jumps are noticeable. Thanks for watching!
Funny enough, I’ve never had problems with Anderson or Aero lower parts kits but I recently bought a LPK from PSA and all the roll pins were slightly oversized making it a bitch to assemble.
Love the vids. Sorry internet operators called names and were shitty. I run mostly higher tier guns (including kac and lmt), but i value and enjoy your content. Your info is useful to me, as most of my friends arent stupid like me, and dont waste money on "overpriced" (to them) guns
@@daviddrago9360 that’s a bold statement, considering how many lowers alone that they sell along with their other products you’d think there would be more proof their products are as bad as you say they are right? I’ve had numerous aero lowers and some uppers and I shoot just about every weekend and they’ve all been fantastic.
@@daviddrago9360agreed, a couple for my aero lowers were out of spec and my trigger pins kept walking out. Company is ran like trash now ever since they tried chasing contracts. They laid off even more employees today actuall.
My 1st Anderson pistol full build failed me out the box. Not saying its trash. Surprised, you run a shockwave blade seems people don't like them I still run mine. Great in depth video though .
I don't run a Shockwave. It's Magpul's newest bad idea brace. They took the Shockwave and made it somehow worse. It came on the gun from Anderson. In my review of this firearm, I did say that I'd rather have seen an SBA3 on it. Thanks for watching!
I strongly recommend a company called bear creek arsenal in North Carolina all totally mill spec I have three uppers in different calipers you can buy a complete upper for under 400 bucks never a problem shoots tighter groups than my colt upper I have one that’s a side charging very cool I have one in 450 bushmaster a cannon all on Anderson lowers
Had one bad experience with Anderson had a charging handle and that broke with a huge crack down the charging handle. Only and last experience. Can't say much with just one bad experience. Never had a rifle of theirs. Not saying Anderson is bad or good.
Anderson lowers are just like everything else. AR lowers. Which is priced fairly. A lot of the bugie brands are just hype. Spending money to just spend money is asinine.
There is a lot of gate keeping in the firearms community. This brand is trash, the brand I like is way better blah blah blah. Some brands are known for being quality and often come at a higher price but many brands are getting by on name recognition also. No one thinks of BCA, PSA, or Anderson being top tier but these companies are capable of producing good items at a lower price point but also send out more lemons versus the higher priced companies. Part of the price of a great weapon is the reject bin.
I made a video about this some time ago. And that is with budget firearms, expect budget QC. Often times the prices are low because they're able to trim the fat off of man hours involved. And since you can't cut the man hours of the assemblers, because you then couldn't build a rifle at all. You have to make the QC checks less frequent. On the scale of budget AR's. I put Anderson and Radical on the top, far over the next two. Which is BCA, then PSA. Thanks for the comment and watching!
Ive built many rifles with Anderson uppers lowers and parts and only ever had 1 lower receiver out of spec. Even the top tier class has QC issues to and don't tell they don't because you would be a lier. I'm in the industry and have seen their issues
