you got lucky with that blackthorne then. Alot of their stuff is out of spec
I was just gonna say - I've seen a couple of Blackthorn products malfunction. It happens to the best of them on some occasions, but that doesn't make the exception the rule.
My philosophy is if your AR does what you need it to do then great - there's nothing wrong with it and its a tool that does its job just like everything else.
But the "just as good" stuff gets old. Don't be a hater to someone who happened to get a different brand just because they paid more for theirs (by the same token, I hate hearing folks dog one brand due to the fact that "its not as good as theirs" when 9 times out of 10, they don't even use their AR to any degree that would test its limits).
Lets all just appreciate each other's rigs and leave it at that. No "Just as good", and no "I'm better than you".