Review: Palmetto State Armory

This is a review of Palmetto State Armory, a web site that sells ammo and AR-15 parts among other things.  

Some background -

In preparing for disaster, our opinion is you should always hope your fellow man is going to treat you like you'd treat them but prepare for there to be some... potential issues.

As a result one of the things we're going to be preparing for are those who feel they have the right to take, rather than ask in a disaster scenario. 

I've been around guns all my life, while they terrify me for what they can do, I understand them, I enjoy them and I derive no small amount of pleasure from my skill with them.  But my fear of them ensures I do everything I can to make sure that they don't go off when I don't want them to.

When asking around on the Zombie Hunter forums for recommendations the name, rather the initials PSA kept getting bandied about.  Now the ZH forums are populated by a level of professionlism and technical knowledge that I found surprising given the 'purpose' of the site, that of dealing with a zombie apocalypse.   As a result, we took a hard look at those recommendations and went with PSA, primarily to be brtually honest because they had stock where BCM aka Bravo Company USA and RRA aka Rock River Arms did not.  

The review -

To wit, I've placed four orders with PSA, two for ammunition, they're simply cheaper on the cheap stuff than others and two for parts.  When you're breaking in a weapon, you don't want to burn money on ammo that's good when all you want to do is get the machinery running smoothly. 

I've also ordered an upper kit, lower parts kit and stripped reciever from them for the purposes of building my own AR-15.

They've done a servicable job so far, shpping while not instant was within reasonable expectations.  Quality of parts so far appears to be good.   They've even gone so far as to call me about an ammo order where they were out of a specific type of ammo that I ordered that was marked as in stock when it was atually out of stock.  Not only did they call me but when we got disconnected during a phone transfer they called me back.  To make up for 'my troubles' they swapped out my ammo of choice with a better grade and on top of that gave me an additional box for no extra charge.

As a result we're going to have have to side with all the other Zombie Squad folks who said to put them on the short list of vendors when considering AR-15's.