pbwalker wrote:Soccerdad1995 wrote:If the price differential isn't huge and you don't love working on guns, I would encourage you to get one that is fully assembled. I have assembled close to 10 lowers, and I am not super handy, so it can be done. But on the first couple, there were several times that I was cursing myself for taking on the endeavor as a small spring launched across the room.
hahaha...this still happens to me every now and then. I'll go up to the gunsmiths counter and I just hear "Need another rear takedown spring sir?"
A tea towel, or similar, is your friend
But I know that feeling well. Every so often I go on a hunt in my shop for some missing piece that left a firearm at escape velocity. Took me 4 months to find an extractor spring pin once.