Anderson Manufacturing Lower Receiver Review and Comparison | Budget or Junk?!

Anderson makes their own lowers and have been making fire arms the military for over 150 years

I build two lower one Anderson the other is dpms. They both function equally the same. I prefer the Anderson over the dpms. Why I don't know, maybe. I have a double set trigger in the Anderson. I can't answer why. It works just as good. The lower and upper is both anderson.also has Anderson gas block, Anderson gas tube Anderson bolt, has rock river double set trigger, sure fire muzzle break. Dpms has Anderson barrel, Anderson hand guard, Anderson bolt Nicole boron, Anderson low profile gas block, Anderson gas tube. Between the two. Like I said they both works just fine, both give me 1" groups are less at 100 yards. I can say bad things about anderson .

Anderson=Cheap junk.You can buy Matrix lowers same price but a million times better quality,with safe/fire/auto on both sides

In spikes defense, they did take the time to color in the selector markings with a red paint pen.😐
If you get an anderson with a dimensional defect…..send it back.

This ‘visual comparison’ is juvenile. Both the Anderson and Aero Stripped Lower Receiver With Integrated Trigger Guard are some of the most robust lowers in the market. They are priced sharp and targeted toward the end user. Talk to folks that know, ask questions and purchase with confidence.

Here is the skinny on Anderson there good and all mil spc they make uppers and lowers for many other companies that you pay more for just to get a name stamped on it and yet Anderson made it for them . The money I save on a quality Anderson upper and lower I can buy a better trigger . The fancy bling don't get the job done when SHTF .

That cut on the Spikes, where the trigger drops in, is a full auto lower!! You can drop an auto sear in and it will work given an M16 style auto selector. You can not do that in the Anderson lower

Anyone notice that the Anderson seems to have a nicer looking bevel to the magazine well than the spikes did? Ive used Anderson lowers with zero issues at all and always got a good upper to lower fit.

Anderson is 20 min from my house, I took a tour of their facility a couple years back, that day they were machining spikes branded lowers. Yep, spikes contracts out their lowers, and Anderson makes at least some of their parts.

I will preface by saying I have never built my own. I am a veteran, [US Army, 85/89] and a civilian contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005/2010.. I purchased an Anderson Arms M4 last year here in Texas at a pawn shop of all places. Great deal, 450.00.. I used to be on a "M4" FB page after I bought it trying to gain information, almost everyone talked shit when one would post a picture of their "desired" weapon. Whether it be DPMS,Colt,Orion, Anderson, etc.. This sucks, that sucks, etc.. I UNFRIENDED that page. This/My rifle is an Anderson Arms, afterwards, I purchased a Spitfire 3X Green/Red reticle scope. I also purchased a vertical fore grip. I/daughter/son has put at least a 1,000 rounds through it with no stoppages. My observation is…. as long as it is clean,properly maintained, My or another "starter rifle" 223 will kill you just as well as a "high dollar" M4.

It does shat it’s meant to do. It’s just plain Jane with none of the flashy carvings. I’ve got several of them and they all work so do you really need to spend more? Not really.

The Anderson looks sweet. When he put the upper and lower together, why didnt he mention the fit? I would be rubbing my fingers across those surfaces like she was my girlfriend. Then brag about it at the jobsite.

Unlike ar10s/lr308s, milspec is milspec for ar15s. I wouldn't spend any extra cash on an upper or lower if its milspec. They are built nearly the same with the same quality. You're just paying for the name. I spent nearly a grand building my lr308 from aero precision, for my ar15 build I'll definitely be using Anderson lower and reciever. Spend the extra cash on a good nitride bcg and a quality barrel

I’m just starting to do my research on building an AR so I can do it, if I buy an Anderson lower, will the rest of the functional parts have to be Anderson or are they somewhat universal?

Mil Spec is Mil Spec. As long as it is to Military Specification then everything is going to line up. (I built 2 using Anderson lower receivers ) Matter of fact, I’d rather have no logo, or the horse instead of skulls,spiders, crossed baseball bats over a colostomy bag… if you ever must use it for self defense the lawyers will have a heyday making you look like a monster and painting you in a bad light

You can buy the lowers for 49.99 now.. I got one with a store coupon for 25 bucks the other day

Anderson manufacturing makes many , many , many products for many other companies including spikes and I believe noveski . branding does not mean a thing . if it works it works

Anderson makes uppers and lowers for Spikes…lol

The only lower I’ve ever had issues with is a billet lower. Mil spec lowers, regardless of name brand just work.

Amdersogets thier lowers from Cerro Forge. So do some of the big names, they only mill, and stamp them

Never any problems with my Anderson lowers

Any updates of this Anderson build?

Wanted to see the end product 👌🏽😎

I’ve built several ARs with Anderson uppers and lowers as well as Anderson barrels and lpk. The only issue I ever had was with their triggers. They had some defective triggers that didn’t reset properly. They quickly sent out replacement trigger parts to fix the issue.

LMAO you cant seee the stamp on the anderson reciever? its on the the rear of the trigger guard,its a keyhole stamp which is cerrule forging which makes uppers and lowers for RUGER also,what dont you understand about MIL SPEC? one company forges the reciever and some even finish it,if another company finishes it it will have a extra stamp on it, most companys dont stamp the lowers but all stamp the uppers which are found behind the brass deflector. yes one may be better finished but all will do the same work. save your money and invest in a better BCG,BARREL,TRIGGER thats where the money makes the differance

Anderson doesn't pay for extreme advertising like S&W, Spider, and Colt. That's why they can sell them for cheaper. They're not in advertisment debt..

Can I use one of those for a ar pistol?

Can anyone tell me a good upper to put on the Anderson forged lower?

Anderson probably manufactures half of the lowers made in the United States. The customers' names and logos are stamped on them, shipped out, and sold under those names. You bought the expensive Spikes and then failed to stake the castle nut in place. You can't build that receiver into a pistol unless it was registered as a pistol when you bought it.

At 9:11, you can see that your receiver end plate is installed backwards. The dimple below the buffer tube goes into the receiver. You might want to fix that.

The spikes upper is manufactured by aero.

Anderson is the best. Period.

How do The Anderson's or Spike's compare to actual Colt or Armalite?

Mil spec is mil spec I will never pay more than 80 for a stripped lower

My PSA upper was made by the same company as the spikes upper… It has the same A over H forge logo on it. Seems like you buy for the cool factor on lowers

Lmao you think the price on nice receivers is bc laser engraving? You know nothing about ARs lol

I live a few miles from where Anderson lowers are made, so they're all over the local gun shops. They're had to beat for the price. I didn't have any issues with the two I've purchased.

If ANYBODY! Said ANYTHING! bad about the Anderson lowers or uppers do not know anything about building AR's or about part quality. It is like the 2nd what part of shall not infringe do people not understand! What part of MIL-SPEC do people not understand?

I cannot speak to his particular lower. However, I have compared Anderson to Spikes, LMT, and a couple of others using calipers, etc. to measure all critical areas. Bottom line, if you purchase a Spikes (for example) at triple the cost of an Anderson, congratulations, you’ve just paid everything above and beyond the cost of that Anderson for a name, nothing more.

Hard to see on the upper if it had M4 or Rifle feed ramps.  Didn't see the M4 mark above the front/gas tube hole either.  I've built nearly a dozen ARs using Anderson lowers without issues.  Save the money for a trigger, couple more mags or ammo.

Some dimentional measurements compared to actual blueprint tolerences would be interesting.

NONE OF YOU KNOW ANYTHING there are 40,000 gun manufacturers and 3 or 4 forgers in the usa my armalight has a keyhole stamp made by cerro forge colt also uses them….when you pay high for a particular receiver name your a ditz…look for the forging mark

people just dont get that just about all the upper and lower receiver are forged somewhere else and the manufactures do the milling and finishing on the receivers, So if you look at the marking on the right side of the lower it has a forged marking where it originally was forged, same as for the upper. SO next time someone says PSA or anderson are cheap tell they are dumb, just like colts, Armalite and other high ends get their upper and lower from someone else.

I have an early 1990s Colt Match HBAR Sporter and a 2018 Ruger AR556. The inside cutout of the AR556 receiver is similar to the Spike receiver, but the inside cutout of the Sporter is similar to the Anderson receiver in that it has that extra chunk of metal (shown in scene 9:20 – 13:40) that goes all the way down to the bottom. I believe that extra chunk of metal has something to do with the installation of an auto sear block to prevent the rifle from being converted into a full-auto select rifle. My Sporter came with an auto sear block installed and that extra block of metal was needed in order for the auto sear block to be held in place.