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Probably The Best Budget AR-15

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The PSA PA-15 11.5″ is less than $500. How does it perform?

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45 COMMENTS

  1. Holy smokes, you rate this thing's shooting experience on par with your BCM?! Wow. Thanks for this review.

    Hey, since you're having so much fun with it and have come so far in terms of round count, 2K-round review with mud and torture test, please!

    And Merry Christmas to the whole Outlaw crew.

  2. I definitely want to see PSA at 2k rounds. I get that they used to have problems but they seem to have course corrected, and the best way to find the truth, whatever it is, is through testing.

  3. Happy Holidays Everyone. I have had 2 PSA uppers. One in 300 Blackout and one in 5.56. There is no way I would ever recommend them. Both had issues right out of the box. Failures to feed, failures to eject, etc. PSA quality control is trash. I work at a gun shop, and we had Radical AR15s on sale for 399 bucks. A customer came in and bought all 5 that we had, along with Vortex Strikefire red dots. For that money he could have had a Daniel Defense rifle, or even a Sugar Weasel with adjustable gas…….and put an ACOG on top of it for a pretty much bombproof rifle. For a range toy, sure buy the cheap stuff……If you are looking for home defense/ SHTF, buy something better. Buy once cry once

  4. PSA offered good stuff a while back. They used to sell what could be considered over run military contract major assemblies. They used to offer complete uppers, with FN machine gun steel barrels. I know, because the premium barrels on my PSA sold ARs have lightly struck FN marks and what looks like lightly painted on and nearly stripped off foreign military markings. I don't know if PSA sells "the good stuff" like this anymore, because I haven't purchased an AR in years.

  5. I wanna see a 20k review on this rifle at least shoot the barrel out and replace the gas rings a couple times take it to the end of its lifespan and use the fuck out of it I want you to show everyone just how good a 400$ ar15 from psa can be… plus their warranty is unmatched

  6. I'd like to see a direct comparison video between this PSA PA-15 vs Radical Firearms RF-15 vs one or two mid-price AR-15s (Maybe the Ruger 5.56 and similar) vs one or two higher budget AR-15s. The best of all 3 price points, pros and cons to justify the price, and all in one video. That would be awesome!

  7. I've lost count of how many PSA uppers I have bought over the last 15 years and have had no issues with any of them.
    Also have tried a few from Bear Creek Arsenal and Delta Team Tactical,, so far they have been good too

  8. Yuck you should have kept the har15 brace its so much more sexy and with the brace plug its a wayyy better brace than that POS rubber flimsy garbage on you put on. PSA is my favorite gun company right now because everything they offer they are killing it I have a psa 300blk and its never ever let me down I run it hard too and 300blk supers will push any ar15 to the limit but its been flawless

  9. Its not a spikes tactical brace its called the Harrington and Richardson H&R HAR-15 pistol brace and devoid makes a plug that makes it 100% usable and comfortable its a 3d printed part works like a charm

  10. These budget ARs like this one are usually done after 5000 rounds in gun tests that I have saw , If your going for a budget AR if you can find one is a S&W Sport 1 used or Sport 2 which are rugged as hell or maybe the Ruger entry level AR rifle. Concerning the Sport 1 S&W the lack forward assist is BS you don't need one and can really jam up your rifle.

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