DoubleStar AR rifles

[stateguy]

Any reviews of DoubleStar AR rifles (or parts)? Primary arms has a chrome lined upper for $200 without charging handle or bolt. Trying to find one on the cheaper side for my brother.

 

[Jack]

Tell him to save a little more and buy a complete colt.

 

[spec50trout]

I've got one. Non chrome lined, though. Darn accurate rifle. But it's a gassy biatch! Mine's a heavy barrel.

 

[Poorboy504]

I'll try to be as helpful and truthful as possible. I ordered a rifle kit from JT distributing (sister company of doublestar) way back when I first assembled my first rifle. Everything went together fine and looked great. When I brought it to the range the 10-15 times before I sold it, it gave me no problems whatsoever.
Now, here are some things I didn't like about it: the bolt carrier was semi, the front sight gas block pins were straight (not tapered), and it came with a commercial buffer tube.

Now, this was years ago, so they may have changed their product since. But in all honesty, if you need a cheap upper to get a rifle going, I would get the doublestar based on my experience with it. For that price, it is much much better quality than the ptac uppers from palmetto.

 

[themcfarland]

with that being said, I can comment on the lowers..
When there was a group buy a few years ago, I saw a sampling of 100. not one was coated well, the fit and finish was and still is the worst I have ever seen.. ever..
the holes were out of square and some did not even align well enough to make them work.. I would steer clear of any of their work..

 

[gunz4me]

I owned two Doublestar rifles purchased as complete guns from Tactical Innovations between 2005 and 2007. My first one was a little finicky, and I gave it to one of my family members as a graduation gift. Depending on the ammo used, it still has some cycling issues.

My second one was finicky too, but that turned out to be a burr in the gas port. I was given a replacement upper and it worked flawlessly. I ended up giving that rifle to another family member as a gift and he is still shooting it till this very day. He commented on how it was nice to be given a rifle that was sighted in perfectly versus trying to get it dialed in himself.

Both rifles were 20", heavy barrel, chrome moly variants.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

You can buy a complete Colt 6920 for around a grand.

 

[WEL]

Upper kit from J&T purchased during the first obama scare. Fit and finish is fine no issues. Shoots darn good. They make a lot of parts for govt,military and other companies to rebrand.