Good, not great
Built my AR using all mil-spec items to start with as I haven't touched an AR anything in 35+ years. My finger wouldn't know the difference. It is what it is and it works and feels fine. Found a great deal on this kit and thought, 'why not?'.
Wear surfaces didn't look great but I had high hopes anyway. I went to the shop and used some 1200 grit paper on the surface plate to just give enough polish to see high/low spots before I installed the kit. It only took a few passes to make them shine really well with no apparent defects. Hopes raised higher.
Cleaned, a couple dabs of grease, installed, and started dry firing. First impressions were good. More dry firing then took a couple force measurements. Consistently 4.5lb, +/- 0.1lb so, not the 3.5-4 claimed. Tried another scale, exactly the same results. Not totally disappointed with that; it'll decrease a bit with use.
However, more dry firing revealed some grittiness. Given the almost mirror polished surfaces, I expected far better. My original mil-spec parts don't have this feeling.
I removed everything and wiped the grease off. The sear surfaces, more so the trigger's, show unevenness across their faces as if the stones used to finish the parts needed dressed.
I'll reinstall and dry/live fire a bunch and hope it wears in and the grittiness goes away. The weight isn't as big a deal.
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Reviewed by: Rand from Canton, Ohio.
on 11/1/2024
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