Expain Your Spare Parts Strategy

[chazthebiker]

Sounds like you have a few extra rifles in parts? Why not just build them so if the proverbial shit does indeed hit the equally proverbial fan and one of your rifles breaks, you can just grab another one ready to go, then swap parts (although I don't know why you'd do this) when you have extra time?

Funny! Actually I don't have all that. Not even close. Wish I did. I would not build them into rifles for the same reason the NAPA or O'Reily's doesn't build all they have into engines. Just like for my cars: I keep and extra starter, and extra water pump, extra belts, spark plugs, extra antifreeze, etc. Like I said, we all do what we do for our own reasons. The purpose of my post was to spur conversation about what the various schools of thought are around stocking spare parts. If you look at the list closely, I don't think it is that out of line. 10 Magazines per rifle? Sounds practical to me. I'll bet there are folks who would say it isn't near enough. Springs and detents that people lose all the time? For a few dollars you can have five of each of all of them. One extra set of BUIS in case one breaks? It doesn't have to be Troy, it can be MBUS... doesn't matter really. Spare receivers? I've read all over the place about guys having spares in the safe.

Anyway, glad I could give you a chuckle my friend. So your strategy is zero spare parts? Just asking because you didn't say.