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Has anybody done business with PSA and has it been positive.

Yes,yes.

Two purchases, a complete upper and two complete lowers. More than pleased with the value/quality.

Their shipping lags at times but have no complaints about the goods to date

I haven't bought a whole lot from them, but my experiences have all been good.

My buddy down the street would cry a river if anything ever got in the way of him doing business with PSA.

I've got several $49.99 blem lowers from them, an on sale pistol or two, and a decent amount of on sale ammo over the past couple of years. Never had any negative issues. Fully agree that they can be slow to ship.

Of the half dozen or so blem lowers, I've only had one where I could find the blem. It was some light tooling/machine marks on the inside and didn't affect function at all.

I've gotten one complete lower (blem) one completer upper, and a blemmed BCG off of them. All separate purchases. No shipping delays. Maybe I just caught them when everything was in stock, but I'm a satisfied customer, and would/will use them again. FWIW, I never did find the blem on the lower. To this day I don't know what caused that designation, and can't see a thing on it. The BCG just had a light spot in the finish, but when it's in the receiver, no one can see it anyways. No function issues-it runs just fine.

I've bought 2-3 times from them, no complaints

I've ordered from them many times, no complaints. Their shipping used to be really slow a few years ago, but is a lot better these days. I think they heard the complaints and stepped up their shipping department.

I built 2 AR's with complete uppers and lower parts from them last year, no problems at all.

As Certifiable said, some of the parts took a couple of weeks to arrive, I figured it was due to the pre-election surge.

Yes, no issues at all.

No issues, slow shipping.

Yes, and yes.

Echoing the slow shipping time, the PTAC bargain line of products tends to be the most likely to get a problem part.

I've found a couple of the barreled uppers that had Lok-Tite or the equivalent on the barrel nut. Not a show-stopper, but a pain to work on.

Bought a lot of parts, ammo and handgun. No issues with them.

Thanks guys, thinking of buying a complete upper, I have a Rock river Lar 15 and it is a tack driver, groups under two inches at 400 yards. am thinking of getting a Rock river upper either 20 or 24 inch barrel,checked out AR15 sales.com but they want a more than I can afford, same length barrel uppers at Palmetto are much less in price, only question is are they as accurate as the Rock rivers. Rock river uses Wilson barrels, Palmetto won't tell what barrels they use.

Freddy, I have an RRA upper with a 24" stainless barrel I have considered selling, but just haven't decided yet. Probably less than 100 rounds down the tube. If that is something you're interested in we could discuss it.

I buy from PSA when I need to, & have had no issues with them; hard to beat some of their sale prices on uppers if that's what you need from them.

But I use Primary Arms much more than PSA.

They have more inventory, more variety, more brands & if they have it in stock, it almost always ships not later than the next day.

MM

Primary Arms is good too. I can buy wholesale but Palmetto and Primary usually beat those prices on their sale items, sometimes on the regularly priced stuff.

I will check out their website, thanks.

I'd echo what's been said on Primary Arms too. Never a bad experience.

Palmetto is a great place to find excellent deals. I've purchased AR parts, mags and tons of ammo from them. Probably more from them than any other dealer.....

Uppers , lowers, parts, ammo and mags,,, all have done well

assembled 10 ar's last year all from PSA. not a problem with any parts. once or twice got impatient with shipping time but not as bad as a few others.
have never found the "blem" on any of the blems i bought.

if you like to get lots of email sign up for their mailing list. haven't bought anything yet but some of their prices on "specials" look very reasonable.

Do NOT be sold on the "Wilson" brand on ARs.

Example... .458 SOCOM. Wilson DID NOT and DOES NOT have a licensing agreement with Marty at Teppo Jutsu... the bums at Wilson reverse engineered the reamers

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Off the negative now... I have bought lots of good stuff from PSA... Great Prices.

These are accurate...



It can be slow, I have had both fast and slow.

Additional... I have learned to polish PSA triggers with some Flitz and a cotton Dremel wheel before installing.

Aids in the break-in and smoothing out. 99% of all my PSA triggers are totally acceptable after 200-300 rounds... the pre-polish cuts this down to about 50 rounds.

Just ordered a complete upper from them on Mon, will be here on Friday, not bad on shipping time. Will update on quality then.

Big Brown showed up yesterday, the upper is nice for the money. SS Hbar 16" 8 tw. Now for some range time.

Multiple transactions and parts no problem with any of it, all great.

They are a great outfit. Just be sure to wait for what you want to go "on sale". There sale items change almost daily and if you're patient you will save some real money.