Posted: Yesterday 7:50:19 PM EST
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I just want to get a few HPT/MPI bolts as spares. I can buy a complete BCG for $80 while just the bolt itself costs the same or more? What am I missing? |
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That they are $55 not $80? https://aimsurplus.com/products/aim-ar-m16-223-5-56-nitride-9310-mpi-bolt-carrier-group-1?c=HPAIMBCG5495 |
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Originally Posted By DarkLordVader: That they are $55 not $80? https://aimsurplus.com/products/aim-ar-m16-223-5-56-nitride-9310-mpi-bolt-carrier-group-1?c=HPAIMBCG5495 Those aren’t HPT’d, aren’t C158, and the bolt is nitrided which doesn’t interest me. I’m referring to a mil-spec BCG for $80. |
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Originally Posted By RogueSpear2023: Not a lot of difference Originally Posted By RogueSpear2023: Originally Posted By Firestarter123: Those aren’t HPT’d, aren’t C158, and the bolt is nitrided which doesn’t interest me. I’m referring to a mil-spec BCG for $80. Not a lot of difference Maybe not to you but to me it is. |
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Originally Posted By D_Man: Economy of scale and market demand. Very very people just buying an AR bolt compared to a complete BCG. This makes the most sense I guess. I'm with OP though. With the price of metal so high it would be nice to be able to buy bolt assemblies sans carrier for a bit cheaper. Of course it does take a lot more machining to make bolt. I'm sure it's more than a carrier and C158 costs more. |
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So . . . just buy the complete BCG for a decent price and then you have an extra carrier, too. Not really seeing the issue here for the amount of $$$ involved. Sometimes you'll pay more than you want for part of a product group than the whole thing. That's not exclusive to firearms. |
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Originally Posted By tahusker: So . . . just buy the complete BCG for a decent price and then you have an extra carrier, too. Not really seeing the issue here for the amount of $$$ involved. Sometimes you'll pay more than you want for part of a product group than the whole thing. That's not exclusive to firearms. That’s what I’ll probably end up doing as I’ve done that in the past. I just have way too many spare carriers sitting around that I’ll never use. I just like having a spare bolt, firing pin, cam pin, set of gas rings, and a couple of firing pin retaining pins in the grip of my rifles. |