I've seen a few guys mention Delta Team since they had some good deals on side charging uppers. Below is a review that I wrote about them (as a company) and posted on another forum. I thought that I would re-post it here since there is still some questions about them.
Omega Mfg - https://www.omegamanufacturinginc.com/
Delta Team Tactical - https://www.deltateamtactical.com/
Davidson Defense - https://davidsondefense.com/
All three are the same company out of Utah. Don't ask me why they have three different names and web sties
They have some (apparent) really good deals which leaves a lot of people asking, Are they any good? and Who are they anyways?
I have placed a number of orders with them now and would like to help people who may have come across one of their sales and are wondering if they should take a chance and place that order.
When they first started out, the customer service was pretty bad which was probably due to under-staffing. They also had a lot of parts mis-labeled. This could have been them trying to be deceptive or it may have just been ignorance on the part of a new employee at a young company. More on this below.
Their customer service is actually getting pretty good now. I left a message with one of their customer service reps recently when their lines were busy. She called back within ten minutes. That never happens with any company I call so I was pretty impressed. The parts mix-ups are getting less frequent as well. Their selection is getting better and their shipping times are getting faster. It looks like they are getting their feet underneath them and are stepping up.
Here are some things that you should know though.
First: They buy surplus, blems and overstock then sell it cheap.
This can be good or bad.
The good
I have gotten some great deals on quality parts from them.
The bad
Some of the horror stories that I or my friends have had include:
They were selling stripped uppers at a really good price. My buddy bought a bunch. When they came in, they didn't quite look right. Upon closer inspection, he thinks they were air-soft uppers. Needless to say that they were enough off that you couldn't assemble them. It was a bit of a hassle to get them returned. Again, this may have been them trying to be deceptive, or they honestly may not have known the difference.
Another time they were selling name brand drop in triggers at a great price. While these were the actual name brand trigger, they were blems. Functionally they were fine, but the fact that they were blems wasn't made known to us. You could tell by looking at them though. A phone call to the trigger manufacture confirmed it. Delta Team was supposed sell them without using the manufactures name on the trigger or in the advertising.
I bought a bunch of their pistol kits at a steal of price. The kits included everything but the lower. All of them functioned flawlessly. However one of them had some pretty bad scratches on the finish of the handguard and you could see where they tried to hide them with a Sharpie. Another one had the handguard misaligned with the upper. The picatinny rails were about 3/32 of an inch off (not clocked correctly) from the upper to the hand-guard. It functioned well, but looked kind of bad.
Second: Their "kits" are just a bunch of overstock parts that they are trying to clear out.
What I mean is that they don't package a kit based on which parts work well together. After all, AR-15s are as interchangeable as LEGO's right
Those that build enough ARs know that not all parts work well together. I purchased one kit from them where the BUIS would physically not work with the hand guard. They were polymer sights and so they were a little thicker than aluminum ones. The hand guard was a wide diameter free float style and hit the bottom of the BUS mount. You simply could not use them together. I switched to a set of aluminum BUIS and they worked great, but obviously no one at their company tried to assemble one of those kits before selling them. That being said, most of the parts in the kit were obviously from Anderson and it was a great price for it.
Third They have their own "name brand" parts.
The jury is still out on these. I don't know who makes them, but would like to find out if anybody knows.
Conclusion You can build a good AR15 with their parts for well under $400. You just have to be willing to put up with some potential hassles and do a bit of quality control on your end. This may be enough to keep you from using them altogether (as some of my friends now), but I still use them. Like I said, you can build a good gun for under $400 and not everyone can afford $800+ for a rifle.
Omega Mfg - https://www.omegamanufacturinginc.com/
Delta Team Tactical - https://www.deltateamtactical.com/
Davidson Defense - https://davidsondefense.com/
All three are the same company out of Utah. Don't ask me why they have three different names and web sties
They have some (apparent) really good deals which leaves a lot of people asking, Are they any good? and Who are they anyways?
I have placed a number of orders with them now and would like to help people who may have come across one of their sales and are wondering if they should take a chance and place that order.
When they first started out, the customer service was pretty bad which was probably due to under-staffing. They also had a lot of parts mis-labeled. This could have been them trying to be deceptive or it may have just been ignorance on the part of a new employee at a young company. More on this below.
Their customer service is actually getting pretty good now. I left a message with one of their customer service reps recently when their lines were busy. She called back within ten minutes. That never happens with any company I call so I was pretty impressed. The parts mix-ups are getting less frequent as well. Their selection is getting better and their shipping times are getting faster. It looks like they are getting their feet underneath them and are stepping up.
Here are some things that you should know though.
First: They buy surplus, blems and overstock then sell it cheap.
This can be good or bad.
The good
I have gotten some great deals on quality parts from them.
The bad
Some of the horror stories that I or my friends have had include:
They were selling stripped uppers at a really good price. My buddy bought a bunch. When they came in, they didn't quite look right. Upon closer inspection, he thinks they were air-soft uppers. Needless to say that they were enough off that you couldn't assemble them. It was a bit of a hassle to get them returned. Again, this may have been them trying to be deceptive, or they honestly may not have known the difference.
Another time they were selling name brand drop in triggers at a great price. While these were the actual name brand trigger, they were blems. Functionally they were fine, but the fact that they were blems wasn't made known to us. You could tell by looking at them though. A phone call to the trigger manufacture confirmed it. Delta Team was supposed sell them without using the manufactures name on the trigger or in the advertising.
I bought a bunch of their pistol kits at a steal of price. The kits included everything but the lower. All of them functioned flawlessly. However one of them had some pretty bad scratches on the finish of the handguard and you could see where they tried to hide them with a Sharpie. Another one had the handguard misaligned with the upper. The picatinny rails were about 3/32 of an inch off (not clocked correctly) from the upper to the hand-guard. It functioned well, but looked kind of bad.
Second: Their "kits" are just a bunch of overstock parts that they are trying to clear out.
What I mean is that they don't package a kit based on which parts work well together. After all, AR-15s are as interchangeable as LEGO's right
Those that build enough ARs know that not all parts work well together. I purchased one kit from them where the BUIS would physically not work with the hand guard. They were polymer sights and so they were a little thicker than aluminum ones. The hand guard was a wide diameter free float style and hit the bottom of the BUS mount. You simply could not use them together. I switched to a set of aluminum BUIS and they worked great, but obviously no one at their company tried to assemble one of those kits before selling them. That being said, most of the parts in the kit were obviously from Anderson and it was a great price for it.
Third They have their own "name brand" parts.
The jury is still out on these. I don't know who makes them, but would like to find out if anybody knows.
Conclusion You can build a good AR15 with their parts for well under $400. You just have to be willing to put up with some potential hassles and do a bit of quality control on your end. This may be enough to keep you from using them altogether (as some of my friends now), but I still use them. Like I said, you can build a good gun for under $400 and not everyone can afford $800+ for a rifle.
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