StantonCree
Watch your beer
- Jan 23, 2011
- 23,940
edit....accident.
I rather catch rabies than be caught inside their SS store (just 4 blks away). That's just me. Ya'll do what you want.
High rent is really not an excuse for not dealing on anything in the store. It's MSRP or Fuggedabout
Engage is cheaper by far. I both a Colt Delta Elite NIB from Andy for less than Atlantic was trying to sell a used one.
My G29SF was literally hundreds cheaper.
To each his own.
At Engage you get doughnut crumbs in your AR build But coffee is included
Both Atlantic stores have been bad enough to me so I never want to buy a gun there. When I wanted to start a AR15, the SS store said it was stupid to build one from a stripped lower and that I should just buy the bushmaster they had on the rack for 1300. Went to the rockville store, who was a little more willing to work with me from a stripped lower. After buying the parts kit and stock from them (didn't know any better at the time) then offered to put it all together for me for a small price. Cool. When I got my AR (was a complete RRA build with a DPMS parts kit) I was thrilled. Got home and opened it up to clean it, get to learn the system. Pizza crumbs EVERYWHERE. Inside the trigger, all over the insides of the lower. The *@#! is this? Then I remember they had pizza delivered when I was there so I guess who ever put it together was eating over my lower while doing it.
Anyway, my brother took me to the range next day to try it out. The bolt would not hold open after the last round was fired. On every magazine we tried it didn't work. Took it back up to the rockville store, who took it in the back for 40 minutes. Came back and told me that someone installed a spring wrong and it should be fine. Also the guy at the counter saw a steel casing in my range bag and asked me if I had been firing that out of my AR, I said yes. I then proceeded to get chewed out for 5 minutes about how he will have to fix my rifle because steel cased ammo will destroy it.
I'll stick with Engagement and 2A for all my firearms needs. Hell, I rather drive up to Baltimore than go back to Atlantic.
Not every store/merchant is going to be good at everything. But pizza crumbs in a trigger assembly etc... now THAT seems over the top. WOW.
I should ask the owner about that the next time I'm at the store. That's something I'm sure he'd remember.
Now, this is where I made a mistake. I never said a word about it to anyone at the store. At the time my rifle wasn't functioning correctly and I just wanted my AR to work like it should. I didn't want to get into a argument about crumbs with the guy at the counter. Just wanted my AR and to be done with the store.
And a free pizza