Yep

And these mindless people will still say that the Anderson is trash because it actually says Anderson and I’ve heard from multiple gun dealers that half the lowers on the shelf are made by Anderson

What are the companies?

You mean a guy with a vested interest in making his company sound quality makes vague statements about being behind quality?! Shocking.

​@@vonleiningenUnless there is some NDA they should brag about it.

Yep and just as strong and reliable.

Love my Anderson...runs great.

Anderson makes other lowers for other companies like Spike I believe so it makes sense, plus the AR design itself is very uniform

Absolutely. Those forge lines make the Colt look poorly made.

I'm not sure those Singers ever saw service. As I recall, Singer fulfilled their contract, but the war was won before the pistols were issued. I bet they ran like sewing machines, though.

@@doktorfaustus In 1990's, while doing my two week reserve duty at NWSC Crane, IN, I came across several Singer 1911 and even ones that were marked Union Switch and Signal.

@@MrStonelion63 What a find! Also, Crane sounds like a pretty fun place to do reserve duty for someone into firearms.

@@doktorfaustus Don't know how it is now. Located in southern Indiana. They used to have hunting and fishing on base.

The singer's were so well made that the government decided the company should be making the more precise equipment needed.

mill it out

You probably won't ever get the parts legally to make it a machine but if you can afford the parts you can buy lowers without the shelf.

@@realisrealite5554 it's legal to buy the parts. It's illegal to drill the hole and illegal to install them. That's not the point. The point, again, is that no gun manufacturers should be anti-2a in any way, shape, or form.

@@GunsNBudder I absolutely agree with you.

The CR prefix really stands for CzRifle because Colt doesn't actually fabricate/manufacture M4s for the civilian market anymore. Or for the military for that matter because they kept losing the contracts for the parts to FNHerstal.

what barrel 16" general purpose would u suggest for a anderson ?

I built a few different clone models of the M-16 using Anderson lowers. All came out excellent and have been to the range for thousands of rounds. Take care of it and it will take care of you.

Thanks Rob- my buddy… let me know how it goes

And PSA!

PSA has stated that their goal isn't to profit on firearms sales, it's to make certain firearms so ubiquitous that no court will ever be able to deem them as "not in common use". They conquered ar15's for us, now they're moving on to AK's. And their AK's are really amazing, even the cheap/entry level versions.

​@@GunsNBudderyea I'm sure they don't make any money 😅

@@jasonshink6589I believe he’s making the point that they have a principle they operate off of. Which is fine.

For this, they are goated. Also I had one FN M4A1 and probably 4-5 different Colts in the army. The FN was the tightest in receiver fitment, the markings were sharper, and it grouped the tightest. Not sure if that is indicative of anything but I think it’s note worthy.

Only in the trigger housing.Colt doesn't finish the trigger housing because the military didn't require it.

I have an Anderson lower and several Colt lowers.The difference is Colt had to maintain strict tolerances and quality control that Anderson doesn't . I've seen far more problems with Anderson than Colt.But I must say Anderson is as good as most and better than some big name lowers.

@@realisrealite5554 like which big name? Please

three months ago i picked up 4 at my LGS 50 each

Thats nuts! I bought two andersons on sale for $35 each a few years ago. I bet prices will never be the same again, on anything gun related, after this plandemic shit.

What? $199 ? I scored two Anderson stripped at Primary Arms before the Pandemic, they had a "special" at $29.95 each, with a limit of two,,, am working on two builds now.

@@Tro1086 This used to be a regular special from time to time...

Awesome brother! Very nice to hear!!! 💥💥💥

I have never seen an impressive Colt barrel tbh.

@@othernamesweretaken1871 Every Colt barrel I have tested with my chamber function gauge has passed, which many other well known brands haven't..A must for me is the barrel has to pass the function and the (go and field) head space gauges..If any of these fails, they get sent back..

No doubt tooling costs can be a part. However there is such a thing as different companies having different profit margins as well… I’ve seen higher end names having sloppier tolerances when pin gauged than a AA or PSA. There are videos out there proving it. The guy that got me into building vs buying off the shelf or complete uppers/lowers takes his tools to the gun shop and checks them out before buying and leaving the store with them. Depending what he is doing the build he doesn’t care what the name on the side is as long as it passes his measurements/tolerances. Often times when companies get big their investors want to bank off the name and want bigger profit margins. Just how business works. And to be totally real, just because a company has military contracts doesn’t mean that level of quality the military contract demands will trickle down to civilian products. Like hypothetically say they check each and every part to fulfill the order for the military contract, they may check every 10 parts of the civilian side. People like to argue just because a different company makes parts for both, in this case producing stripped lowers they can pay more for better quality control from the forging company. This is true. However, they can also have different quality control on their parts they machine themselves to fulfill orders for different clients, like between military contracts and civilian use.. Having worked in machining I can guarantee the parts to fulfill military contracts and civilian use don’t come from the same batch/run.. If they have a military contract they will fulfill it first. A person really can’t even use the argument a high end company won’t cut corners and risk hurting their brand recognition. History is filled with companies that did just that and went under.. Yeah you may have more of a chance getting a bad stripped upper or lower from a company like AA or PSA compared to a high end name. But if you check their machining and everything passes really the stripped upper and lower receiver can have a dollar store logo on it and really be no different than ones with a high end name when it comes to functionality and reliability.. lol

What if you don't though. What if you just pay more for the name Colt? I would expect that on a complete rifle for sure, but with a lower? I'm not completely sold

Scale is another way to get to lower costs. Spread fixed costs over a larger production run.

Interesting! I forgot about that when I made my comment. I have to say that mine did the same so technically only 2 issues lol

Good find man! Don’t let go of that thing I got mine about a month ago

I just picked up a palmetto with government M4A1 markings on it. Looks really good

Thanks brother! Man, I would love to have one with Govt markings! Great score!!! 👍🏻

M4's are good, but mine is a government marked M16A3. Safe-Semi- Burst. Just Sayin.

Nice!!! 💪🏻

The engraving (Race horse) is very sharp and crisp on mine ! Thinking of prepping it and painting it Carolina blue !! 😁

?To call your rifle a colt in Bama it better have "C" stamped on the upper and a pony on the lower. RESPECT for your serving our gr8 country sir!!!

Thanks brother! 👊🏻

Yes, it will fit. My Anderson lower was on my Colt upper receiver for a couple of months before I purchased the Colt lower receiver.

Technically all m16/m4-ar15 parts are interchangeable. Granted you may need to shim your lower depending on your upper. This was the 2nd important reason they were designed only 2nd next to the cheaper 5.56 ammo compared to to the 3006 they were using. They were designed so our troops could essentially make a working rifle from parts of broken rifles. In a nut shell without specifics etc. (Someone will comment with those im sure)

Congrats on the score! My lower shipped 3 days after payment, if I remember correctly. Then only took 2 days to get to my FFL. It was fairly quick.

@@HillbillyNitroUSA thanks! I owe it to you for mentioning specialized armament in your colt lower video. I was looking everywhere and they were either out of stock or insane prices

I bought 2 Anderson lowers from Bass Pro shop here in FL for $59 each.

Then your colt is select fire. That was and is the ONLY way to get selector stops on a colt. So....

@@jamesstephenson2346 obviously it's not the only way it's an off the shelf AR15A4. So....

Cmmg parts for every lower I build.

BTW we are talking about Anderson’s stripped lower receiver here. Just saying

​@@sealsrx7252 ya don't say???

Yup, €600+ for an upper and not even a hammer forged, nitrided, or chrome lined bbl. Schmeisser, here in Germany is making better AR's than America. Ironic 😂

@@vonleiningen this is why they file for bankruptcy, its ok CZ is next on the list for Colt to ruin 🤣

Cool story bro, the military (with a sample size in the millions) disagrees. But go on with yo bad self

​@@jamesstephenson2346 you're a moron, colt doesn't make anything for the US military anymore and haven't for years they lost the handgun contract to Beretta, then the rifle contract to FN. when another company makes your gun better than you do, you're doing something wrong

Pretty sure I watched this video and Anderson was outta spec compared to colt almost everywhere. I'll take not shaving off forgings for proper spec. Price and availability however is a different area altogether

And that final machining determines the quality

Common with colt buyers

It's funny that the Anderson lower is also a low shelf and can house a registered Auto Sear, and the Colt cannot.

LOLOLOLOLOL, I own both plus a few others and I'll admit that they shoot the same, IF you have quality inner parts. Now that said; I do like my Colt, based on it's military history of which I've spent my whole life in....

Just build a complete lower out of a Anderson,aero precision,or PSA and swap it out with you polymer lower group…I have a polymer lower and haven’t had any problems with it ..just up to you

Buy, a back up stripped lower ....any brand. While you run the polymer one to the ground; then just swap the parts over to the back up.

If you have to omni-hybrid gen 2, or whatever the newest one is. They're good to go. Kinda useless when a full aluminum lower weights less. If you want a polymer lower thats reliable get a KE arms lower.

No, its not. Anderson has a LONG history of out of spec lowers.

@@jamesstephenson2346 Yeah, the last time I saw my gunsmith (almost a year ago) he told me he was having a hell of a time assembling Anderson lowers and mentioned the machining was off. Buffer tubes would not attach and the captive pins were not aligned. What a mess. I’ve been lucky with a few Aeroprecision and PSA lowers.

They are both forged 7075 aluminum then anodized.

Welcome aboard brother! 👍🏻💪🏻

Yep, they are no longer stamped. They laser everything now. ☹️

Or get an aero. Very affordable and high quality.

@@docholiday1806 I have several aero M4E1 Lowers, they are very high quality. Plus the look is really awesome as well. I usually run a radian ADAC cause I shoot from both sides, so I like the ambidextrous features, but they're expensive as hell. The aero lowers are the way to go. It ballistic advantage, they own aero now, so they have the same lowers as well

@@Usmc0341 awesome. I’ve only heard good things about aero precision

Lmao, absolutely not. Colt literally OWNS "the spec". It absolutely IS more mil spec. If you like anderson, cool. So do i. But get outta here with that dumb shit

Must've not just watched the video

@@jasonshink6589 I did watch it.

@@Zestypanda my bad bro. Not sure what video I thought I was responding too. Apparently I didn't watch the video hahah.

I really appreciate you taking the time to drop a comment. Sounds like you have a nice collection going on there! 👍🏻👊🏻💥

I don't believe you. Aero is a much better qc company than Anderson ever was

They make blank sided ones.

Calipers are not a proper measuring device for measuring an AR lower? Duh…

You mean pin gauges,not just gauges.. Anderson has had their machining dialed in for quite awhile and make excellent lowers. If your hammer and trigger pins are walking out, the springs are out of spec or were installed incorrectly. I have never seen an Anderson hammer and trigger pin hole over sized..A .1550 to .1575 pin gauge must pass through both holes to pass spec on any newly made receiver. The military won't reject worn pin holes until they will pass a .170 tapper pin or a .163 pin gauge .

@@hairydogstail 👍 That's what I meant. Pin gauges.

True that, only the Anderson will never fail!

My colt stripped lowers cost 99 dollars. Where are you getting Andersons for 9.99? Ill buy a pallet.

​@artillerybuff2000 this is probably true

​@@jamesstephenson2346wtf are you smoking. Please tell us what Crack dungeon you buy costs for 99. They aren't in stock anywhere . Only thing that is is complete lowers for 500 plus dollars. Usually like 750 plus. Psa complete is 130. Once again I'll buy as many Crack coslts as you can sell me though

Thanks brother! 👍🏻💪🏻👊🏻

What did they do to disappoint you?

@@HillbillyNitroUSA just constantly had malfunctions out of the only 2 colt ar platforms I ever bought. Never had the issues with any other manufacturers.

@@whywouldyoucareaboutmyname6610 im a colt fanboy, but my experiences have been complete opposite. All mine are "restricted" and preban with the exception of my 2013-2014 m4 sporter. What models did you have problems with and were the factory built or cloned? just curious so i can steer clear in future

He's just making it all up...!

Hide the serial number

honest opinion on the 6945 upper? i have the restricted/leo 6940 and only need the 6943 to complete trio. ive had the 10.3 for a while, so in your expert opinion which will be worth me in 20yrs, the 43 or 45. as far as my lowers go they are all clinton ban or preban with exception of the m4 sporter. id love to find a us property lower or m4a1 like your 2017 -18 models. we should exchange emails cause i have a decent stash of NOS ar crap. all colt or kac and bcm. if online sales are banned we all need resources

@@Jason.123rson Colt LE6940 , LE6940P , Le6943 , LE6944 , and LE6945 are IMO the best Colts period . I own 6943 and 6945 . As for which one will be worth more 20 years from now . I can't really answer that . I'd say get both. The 6945 is more rare for sure but the 6943 is more practical if that makes sense. Only the 2018 M4A1 had the US GOV Markings . The 2017 did not . The 2017 had M4A1 LE and 2018 was M4A1 CR Prefix with US GOV Markings

@@Jason.123rson IMO the last actually Colt Carbine to leave their facility was the 2017 M4A1 SOCOM. The 2018 M4A1 has those awesome Gov Markings but it's also missing all those LEGANDARY Colt Markings and quality . Like CMP On Bolt , C Keyhole on Receiver , C stamped on BCG , C Extractor , LE Prefix and 13629 Charging Handle . 2018 M4A1 only had some of those markings . Co worker bought the 2018 just for the lower . The upper did not have C on BCG or CMP bolt . It did have Cage Code Receiver which is cool . It also had W marking on the barrel which means it was subed out to Wilson Manufacturing. The Unicorn of the Colt Carbines is the LE6940P. Colt stopped making the monolithic 556 Uppers in 2015 . Or at least I haven't seen barrel date stamp after 2015 . The LE694× Series are kinda rare . They didn't make a whole bunch of them for the commercial Market . That design is from the SCAR PROGRAM in 2005 . They never released the Monolithics to commercial Market until 2010ish. They only made 1 run of the 6940p in 2012 . Leas than 100 of them for sure . They probably made less than 500 Monolithics in total because if the patent infringement to LMT. SO COLT and Diemaco/ Colt Canada have to pay royalty to LMT. That's why they took them off commercial Market. They are only for Gov or Military sales only now . What cool about Colt is there a so many older Colts still on the market so you can still get those TDP Uppers and Parts pretty regularly due to the shear volume Colt was producing during the GWOT.

@@seanwhite304 im currently having traders remorse! traded the m4 sporter for an early 80's, "T" series, browning hi-pwr with tangent sights.......i dont think i make this trade 7days a wk but ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

The big difference is who machines the aluminum.

@@Jscot1001 you mean 80%...its not worth is to go that route in california

@@Jscot1001 ic...would be nice if they will send some to california so i could buy it from stores here...to transfer a lower here would cost about $100 LOL

@@Jscot1001 here the regular andersons are $79...very seldom they put them on sale for $59 :D

I believe their logo is identical to the horse logo the state of Kentucky uses

Good. I think Colt is a great piece of old American history but they werent keeping up in todays market and selling things way over priced just because the logo. CZ is an amazing country thats been around for a while and will likely turn things around and make colt great again

@@EliteManMonkey indubitably

@@jthouston44 I'm glad you could spell that. LOL

I’m amazed how well they are able to hold back the info on who they have variances with.

I use no logo Andersons for builds but I have factory guns from Colt too.Both function as good as any.

I have a few Aero precision lowers and they always look great and perform flawless.

Appreciate the support, after you woke up... 😉

@@HillbillyNitroUSA positive vibes my friend. You have a great response...... I'm going to subscribe to ur channel!!!

@@Blackkj2056 appreciate it brother! 👍🏻 welcome aboard!!! 👊🏻

Mil spec is mil spec, period. The Anderson is just as strong as the Colt. You pay more for the brand.

@@bargeman100 My question was more rhetorical sarcasm. Yes. Mil-Spec is Mil-Spec regarding materials and processes, if adhered to through the forging process, and there are perhaps a half-dozen forges max that make the M16/AR15 blanks (presuming it's 7075-T6). The difference would be the precision of the machining and magazine well broaching done by the lower manufacturer on the forging. Billet lowers are another matter. I don't believe Uncle Sam has ever procured a billet receiver M16/AR15 rifle (whether 7075-T6 or 6061-T6). One can argue endlessly about forged vs billet 7075-T6. Each has their own metallurgy with forgings being a bit more brittle from that process. Either is sufficiently strong enough, especially for civilian use. What I've seen break on lowers is end user or rifle builder abuse, such as dry firing the lower without the upper attached and breaking the thin wall between the fire control group pocket and bolt catch slot. The other is breaking the trigger guard ear off by not properly supporting the ears when installing the trigger guard roll pin. Some of the builder videos on KZfaq are quite cringeworthy. (Was taught how to completely disassemble and reassemble an M16A1/A2 by one of my unit armorers decades ago - at my behest.) I'm certain there are other abuses, but those are the two I've seen. Saw the dry firing damage a few times during 20 years in the U.S. Army. That was a Royal PITA as it destroyed a serial numbered weapon as accounted for on Unit Property Books (and that's an understatement). Aside from paying for the hood ornament, especially with the Gucci Brands, it's down to the machining precision. One need not spend Big Bucks on a forged lower. Regarding brands, I've been using Aero Precision for some time now for many parts, especially upper and lower receivers. Best Wishes.