Don't disagree at all. If you want to spend the least amount of money on an upper then knock yourself out. I won't. I just wonder how many have this mentality with everything else they purchase. Do they buy the cheapest cars? The cheapest appliances? The cheapest groceries? The cheapest tools they can find? The cheapest clothing? The cheapest electronics?What are 90% of people going to do with an AR, other than zero it (maybe) and throw it in a safe until BLM burns another downtown, at which point it might come out of the safe and lean against a wall or get thrown in a pickup. Very few will see the kind of hard use that people think they will be putting one through in their SHTF EOTW fantasies. Most "operators" here should worry more about where they are going to get their insulin and Lipitor than what rollmark they have on their lower.