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  1. i really hope my local club allows PCC. not only for matches, but in general. we have a stupid no "pistol round out of a rifle" rule. so an SBR AR with 4" barrel is illegal, too much power, where a S&W 500 revolver is totally allowed. Stupid. But it is saving me from buying an MPX and filing the stamp.
  2. I vote get it tri topped. Cutting moving mass reduces felt recoil and you can keep all that heavy grip stuff and magwell you like.
  3. Yes to all above. I had a 6" 40 2011 done and currently my 4" 9mm carry 1911 has it. Lighter moving mass helps recoil, it feels fast, and for me the giant triangle it makes works like a sight for close or really fast shooting. Draws your eyes up and you can look as a flash sight picture and make hits at close distances without looking at the sights proper
  4. well good news, I bought my wife a lower a while ago that we can build up. I asked what she wanted to build it into and she said whatever it is I want light weight. so looks like I have a reason to expand the budget a bit...
  5. Hey all, I've been wandering the web and happened to find the Ultra light weight pic thread on AR15.com I know these aren't truly all hard use competition guns, but I like the idea. I had never considered weight in a build because at a 3 gun match I would be shooting/holding the rifle maybe 10 minutes all day. Recently though I had reason to hang on to my HD rifle for a good half hour, and man it got to be too heavy to hold! Since then I have been thinking about building up a lighter weight (but not militant) rifle that I could play with for close bay matches and take new shooters out as it sits or with a 22 conversion kit. So I guess what I'm wondering is if anybody has built a lighter weight rifle and would recommend it for what I'm thinking. I don't want to go crazy expensive and titanium everything, but I'm hoping I could get in the sub 6 pound range. Didn't weight my SBR, but it has a 1 pound rail, a 2 pound stock, and a 1.5 pound 11" barrel. I'm seeing who rifles come in for a little over twice the old stock weight! This is still better than my 18" bull barrel JP with Lancer lower, full mass BCG, and magpul UBR. That's a monster! I looked through some of the threads here but was hoping for some suggestions.
  6. i think it's a few days late and a few dollars short. It's basically a BCM with worse labeling, for a decent price. But those of us looking for budget entry ARs have already bought them, and many of us on this site now roll our own so to speak. I'm glad they came out with one for new shooters, and I would have bought one if this was 3 years ago. Not sure why people even bother with an A2 front site anymore... If this was $600 I would buy it, but at probably $750 street price, I'll pass.
  7. Maybe I'm weird (ask my wife, I am) and I taught myself to flip off the left side safety with my left trigger finger. Just bring it up, wrap around, push down, problem solved. I do this even though I have an ambi on my game gun because I don't on my carry 1911.
  8. i second the idea of registering a normal AR lower. shorty 9mm AR builds look great, but if you're going to go with that time and expense it makes sense to go with a platform designed for it. if they were shooting PCC near me, I would build an SBR scorpion or MPX. Otherwise get a normal AR lower, that way you can shoot 223/300 for social work applications and bay matches, use a 22 upper for practice, and a 9 upper to run and gun. a short barrel once you're used to it can be really handy. My game gun is about 20" with the comp, and the light 10.5 I have is the one I grab for a bump in the night. much faster pointing, much faster swinging corners and stuff, just not as great at 200+ yards.
  9. I'm trying to build my SBR in 300 suppressed for a CQ kind of house gun. I know the limitations there and I'm OK with it. I've heard long range can be super addictive. that's why I'm thinking getting something cheap enough to start. If it turns out I like it, I can go crazy and get something really designed for it, cost be dammed. I guess I'm trying to decide what a good starter would be but still maintain it's usefulness.
  10. thanks for the input so far everyone. since I'm going to be very new to it, and shooting distances under 800 yards (probably 400 more than not)is it worth it to look to exotic calibers? I'm nervous for weird stuff. I know in rural PA you can still grab 308 at the hardware stores, not sure if that's true about 6.5 or anything. It's another reason I'm not sold on 300 BO for ARs. Looks great for in close, but not if I have to search everywhere to find it.
  11. Hey all, I've been shooting much more slowly recently, and enjoying some bolt 22 at the range rather than 3 gun at the moment. I also took my in-laws shooting and they had a blast (no pun intended). They happen to know a guy that builds precision bolt guns back home, and they are thinking about picking one up for me. So I'm thinking what caliber would be a good option. I currently only shoot 223, but if I get a really BA bolt gun, I'm thinking I would want a caliber with more oomph and I could hunt with as well. Up to deer size, but I know this isn't a hunting forum, but that's the largest I would go after. Maybe groundhogs at distance as well, but more paper than anything. I'm also in process of buying some more cans, and I'm leaning towards a SilencerCo Hybrid or Liberty Mystic. Either way, it would be good for anything up to 338 lapua or 45-70. I know the best option would be dedicated, but I don't think this will be a high volume gun. I'm leaning towards 308 since I could get surplus ammo cheap enough to practice with. Not sure I want get into hand loading, at least not right off the bat. Any thoughts on what to pick up? Any good beginner stuff to read and get an idea about? I will have to start reading about real glass, coming from a 1-4 on my game gun and a Vortex on my 22. I think this might be an expensive way to send lead down range
  12. I've never done either, and I have some torches but no experience drilling barrels or anything for the pin.
  13. hey all, I've been building ARs for years now, but my focus has been mostly 3 gun. That for me has lead to some heavy 18" barreled, comped, heavy stocked rifles. I'm thinking I may want to build something lighter and shorter for all non-competition (not hunting either) uses. What is everyone using for this kind of build? I have an SBR lower I can utilize, but it has an NEA PDW stock and it's a bit on the heavy side. I have an Aimpoint Comp M2 but may end up going iron sights for this one. And if I get a 14.5" barrel do I have to pin and weld it or can I just use a high temp solder?
  14. wait wait wait... how did you get down to a 4 pound rifle?
  15. 300 is a great caliber if you understand what it's trying to do and that fits what you need. It's not a magic, do all wonder round I don't think. It has been designed to run in a regular AR minus the barrel, so if you have an SBR lower already it's an easy upgrade. In 220 or so grain sub sonics, it's a pretty easy to suppress, thumper of a round. Like a 30-30 or 45 ACP it's heavy and slow, but you can use bullets from a 308 so better ballistic co-efficient. It's also really quiet since it's more like a big pistol round than a small rifle round. It has some drop, but inside 150 or so yards it's great. You can double that with a supersonic round, more if you're feeling squirrelly. If you reload, it's easy to make fancy loads, if you don't you can still get some decent rounds for under $1 each. It's designed to run in a short barrel, so you don't need to hang a can off a 16-20 barrel. it's a low pressure round, so not as sharp sounding even not suppressed, and an 8" 223 is terrible as far as blast, fire, and lack of punch. if you're building totally from scratch and like 9mm, the AR isn't the best platform for it. You could go sig, CZ scorpion, or other, and do an SBR off that. If i was totally starting from scratch, I probably would do an MPX. But I'm not, I have the AR lower. So a 300 upper is a couple hundred, not several thousand dollars. If you want a fun caliber to plink with, build a second upper in 22lr, like 5" barrel and a can. total hoot, cheap to shoot, fun for steel challenge, etc. Then throw the good upper on there when you get home. My goal was short as possible and still shoot, using an existing AR lower, mags, and port of arms, for under a grand. So for me, that was shorty 300 upper and a NEA stock. see the attached pic for how it looks with a 6" 22lr barrel. With the 8" upper I'm building in 300, it should be under 20" long but still pack rifle punch as needed.
  16. I've owned eotechs and don't anymore. I've owned aim points and still do. I currently have a Comp m3 on my 11" HD/Work gun. I like that it's dead nuts reliable, easy to dial in, and runs for 5 or so years on the same battery. I would like one of the tiny H/T1 but don't see the need to spend more. I may actually sell it to buy 2-3 of the primary arms smaller dots, since I'm changing my home gun to an 8" 300 BO and want light and small, and building an AR pistol for the truck as well. I hear great things about the primary arms, heard they are made by holosite but can't find that reference currently. you can pick up a used comp usually for the price of a new pro. I got mine here with a LaRue mount for a good price. PM me for details if you'd like.
  17. as the faculty mentor with of a fledgeling scholastic shooting team (also in Texas!) I would say you can ask a solid used value. Most of the time we shoot at my personal expense rather than at the schools, so I don't have as much money to spend on team gear as I would like. I run our stuff with an M&P (but would love to with a 2011) since it's good for beginners/novice shooters. We also shoot a couple of ARs I've built with and without 22 conversion kits, since one mag of 223 covers a whole day's worth of 22 ammo. My thought is if you're in the spirit of giving and able to not ask top dollar, you can consider anything below about 80% or retail as a donation to the club. So if it cost 2k new, you could get 1800 used, selling it for 1500 to the team saves them a bunch of money for ammo. it's up to you to do, but I couldn't have gotten the team started without generous benefactors helping me buy a press, some ammo, some gear, etc. we got 2 of the team up to the prize table at the school's first ever 3 gun match, so totally worth it in my mind.
  18. I've actually been working towards this goal of reducing. I'm having a hard time consolidating pistols, but I think I can get down to like 5. small 1911, full size, walther p99 (first pistol) M&P, maybe something else small to carry. I keep finding stuff I don't "need" though. Since this, I ended up checking out and enjoying 300 BO, so I have a 16" built and I'm thinking about doing an 8". Not that it fills one of those needs better than anything else. Damn, just when I thought I was going to save some money... Has anyone done this kind of consolidation? I took a 22 1911, bolt 22 and my SBR with 22 to the range on Friday, and blasted away for over an hour. Just had fun and relaxed. I'm starting to get the chance to shoot and enjoying when I do again.
  19. hey just saw your post. wondering what you wanted for it and what forend it has. Also, any interest in trades? 

     

    Thanks, 

    Steve

  20. Second that. People collect and love older 1911s, and it might not hold up as well as a newer model to heavy use. If you don't like it, sell it and play with a modern pistol
  21. Lancer 20, 30 singles, 30 doubles, a couple of the 48 round lancers, and a couple of 60 round Surefires. with that combo I've been good for any situation or stage I've seen thus far.
  22. full auto is fun but only when you're expecting it :-/
  23. Hey all, I'm looking at getting a PDW stock for my SBR to make transportation and stuff easier (and I want one, bottom line). I want to use it with an 8" 300 BO upper, 11" 223 upper, and maybe most importantly, 22LR. that's all I'm able to shoot at the club just down from the house. So it would be mostly run in 22, occasionally 223 and 300 BO. I know I can't use the existing BCG, but I want to run it with a regular 22LR conversion kit. anybody know if there's a stock set up like that? Thanks!
  24. Oh I have an SBR lower but I don't want to bring the NFA into this if anything were to happen. That's set up for HD anyway
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