>>58623042Found it. This was written up in September 2022. I dont know if anything has changed since then. Im sure an anon has bought one more recently.
>pastaPre-2010 PTRs were all made with a mix of imported / surplus parts.
JLD PTR (Farmington, CT stamped, 2002-2005) rifles are exceptionally nice and almost identical to the HK-91, but up until 2004 these were AWB compliant.
Early PTR rifles (2005-2010) are solidly OK, but the shake up in the company from Jose Diaz (company founder) stepping out of the CEO role resulted in some QC issues. Overall quality is hit and miss, due to the grade of surplus at this time being kind of all over the place. Generally these are GTG as well though.
End of 2010 into 2011 and through 2013 PTR got a massive cash influx and tooled up to produce nearly all their parts in house. Early new-tooling rifles had some quirks but it's widely accepted that this era has the best quality of any PTR branded rifles. These will have Bristol, CT stamps.
In 2014 PTR packed up and moved shop to Aynor, SC. Late 2014-2015 rifles had QC issues due in part to the move and losing many of the original staff, these rifles are not the best, and probably the origin of the shitty barrel life memes.
By 2017 PTR had fixed most of the issues associated with the move, but the overall quality was still (arguably) not as good as what was coming out of their Connecticut location, the rifles continued to improve until 2020.
2020-2021 PTRs are either completely fine or entirely worse than even 2014 rifles. The QC slipped a lot, and it's regularly debated as to whether or not the rifles are getting better.
Long story short:
2005 JLD=PTR(Bristol CT) > '02-'04 JLD > PTR(Farmington CT) > PTR(Aynor SC) > PTR 2020+
