![]() ![]() Like so many other outfits, Spikes Tactical began as a hobby but became something more. Mike (aka Spike) and Angela Register established their family business at the turn of the millennium, in Maitland, Florida. With this being the case, does Spikes Tactical have something unique to offer customers of this hugely-popular niche? Spikes Tactical It’s been around for a long time, seen some major wars and conflicts, and has been revamped and redone by every two-bit hustlin’ firearms manufacturer in the country. ![]() military as M16) has been called “America’s Rifle”. Just look at John Browning’s treasure trove of a mind… he’s been dead for almost 100 years, and his designs are still being used as a basis for modern-day weaponry and cartridges! ![]() People like Stoner, or Kalashnikov, or Browning – such gifted craftsmen, who gave us so much. Eugene Stoner came up with the design back in the 1950s, and it remains one of the most popular weapon platforms around. Much like the physical universe which we inhabit, the world of ARs is always expanding. Won’t you join us as we take a closer look? This is our Spike’s Tactical review. with uppers and lowers, complete rifles and pistols, barrels, parts, accessories, and more. They deal exclusively with the AR platform, supplying shooters all over the U.S. The fit and finish might be cleaner on one or the other, but by and large, a lower is a lower is a lower.Florida-based Spike’s Tactical was founded in 2001. Functionally, I couldn't tell you if I honestly thought I could tell the difference in performance between any lower, it's really just a chassis, and they're all the same. The Spike's will be fine for resale value. Spikes might flash a "mall-ninja" warning to me, but to a true mall-ninja, it might scream "high quality mil-spec must-have!" Names don't mean jack, but the perceived importance of names means everything. Thinking of motorcycles, think if you could put harley badging on a honda kit bike and call it a true-blue Harley? Or what if you could buy all of the same HARLEY PARTS for half of the price because they were labeled "Vulkan" to build the same bike? That's where we're at in the AR world. You can throw very cheap parts into a Bushy receiver set, put in a nice trigger, slap on a match barrel, and have a rifle that will hold value like superglue. Build a precision build on del-ton receivers, all you have is a low-rep del-ton rifle. Build a ground up custom from junk parts on Bushmaster receivers, then you have a bushmaster rifle. DPMS, Bushmaster, Remington, which receiver do you think is better than the other? None, they're all made by the same company.īUT, in the AR game, the name on the receiver of a franken-rifle is the "name" on the rifle. Every hunting company makes one, but they ALL (every single one of them in the US) use J.C. I look at it very similar to Closed Reed predator calls. Unfortunately in the AR game, the "paying for name" thing goes even further than most people realize.Īs has been mentioned, there are MANY MANY MANY brands of AR receivers, but actually VERY VERY FEW different manufacturers. ![]() I don't think it'll be the best for resale value, but it definitely won't be the worst. Some guys will build nice rifles around a spike's, some guys will build a rifle that just looks really cool around one. A lot of guys use them for frankenbuild mil-spec mall-ninja rifles, so as a rifle, you'll need to focus your build to avoid that aire of inexperience (don't involve "MOE" anywhere except the trigger guard), and you'd have to market it to highlight the RELEVANT components, rather than focusing on the brand name and model number of your rail covers. Spikes is one of those mid-ground lowers, in my subjective opinion. I put more value on a Bushmaster lower (and spend about 50% more to buy) than I would a DPMS lower, even though I KNOW it's made by the same place, because I know I'll get better resale value out of the Bushy than a DPMS would. Some names are a dead giveaway that it was a low-budget franken-build, some names suggest a guy was just trying to build a mall-ninja "mil-spec" super tacticool rifle, some suggest the rifle was built for high volume competition precision shooting, but by and large, it's mostly suggestive. What a name means to any given consumer is purely subjective. I guess I should have pointed out the subjective value of a stripped lower, maybe that would make a fair review?īy and large, the only difference, and ony difference in resultant value, in MOST stripped lowers is the name stamped on the side. ![]()
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