Ordered my first AR15 ever. What to look out for?

PSA Products AR-15
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I liked the EPT.

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This comes with the EPT. Ill get to try it out.

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Me too

Must be a trigger snob :joy:

Stop before you even start Iā€™m fā€™ing with you

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If youā€™re new to the platform and new to shooting itā€™s a solid launching pad. If youā€™re not new to shooting sport itā€™s leaps and bounds ahead of a ā€œstockā€ AK trigger.

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Youā€™ll like it

To get the EPT in a package vs buying it outright, the cost is minuscule

To buy an EPT outright and have it nothing to compare toā€¦I donā€™t know. I still think youā€™d like it

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I gave mine away to people looking for upgrades

Wished I kept one for my 7.62x39 rifle build to throw Wolff springs into :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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It is getting put to good useā€¦

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Iā€™ve always told the wifeā€¦ we can either be broke and homeless from drugsā€¦ or broke and homeless from guns.

I discovered we had a very comfortable basement couch that night

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Do what I did, bought 2nd AR for ā€™ her '. :rofl:

I have PSA EPTs on both my PSA lowers.

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Ditto.

I have one AR and Iā€™ve owned 3 AKs. The WASR was my least favorite. My Zastava M90 is my current rifle and the best rifle Iā€™ve ever owned.

However, my one AR is a short-stroke gas piston rifle and itā€™s just so much fun to shoot.

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Iā€™m happy to hear it

Itā€™s more about the round count through them, rather than the fact I gave them away :100:

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I at one point had 40+ stripped lowersā€¦ive thinned the herd a bunch, bust still have enough for my great grandkids.

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Nope,
add a 22 upper on it and its a new toy, then add a 7.62 etc and then addā€¦

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A 3 pack of lowersā€¦
:rofl:

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@VerbalKint no personal attacks. ~GuitarGuy

Nah, Iā€™m not like that. To each his own and my opinion is right for me but I also realize not everyone wants or needs the same things.

The EPT is OK but not much of an upgrade for the $$. If itā€™s in the build already (sorry, I failed to notice that), then you have a sample to try! I did my own trigger work before EPTs came out with sharpening stones and CLP. When I excitedly got my hands on an EPT, it was unfortunately a downgrade compared to the triggers I did.

The 2-stage PSA enhanced NiB (Schmidt Tool 1005 tactical) is far nicer and the price is great for what you get. I have them in 6 of my ARs. I also have a Geissele SSA-E in one. Very very nice BUT 3X the price (on sale). The PSA 2 stage is the best bang for your $$, IMO. I still have my own old triggers in a few frankenbuilds, too.

OK, youā€™ve had enough of my opinionsā€¦

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:joy:

And Iā€™m not fond of 2 stage :+1:t3:

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Iā€™m old school, the M-16s and variants I carried in the military had regular mil spec. You either can shoot straight or you canā€™t, donā€™t blame it on the triggerā€¦ :rofl::us_outlying_islands:

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The one mechanical change I made to mine was to install a PSA 3.5 single stage trigger. Like night and day over the standard trigger/hammer that came with the rifle. If I had been staying with iron sights the standard trigger is usable, however since I have a variable power optic I wanted a little better trigger pull.

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Want to build my own lower (s). Got to find a FFL that doesnā€™t charge $45 transfer fee per firstā€¦

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Yaā€™ll are reminding me I have a few PSA triggers I need to install. I keep forgetting about them cause I cant decide which lowers to put them in so I hold off, forget about it, repeat later.

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