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Dont know if anyone else is interested, but I've seen a ton of cool AR pics lately on here.

I'll start it up with a buddies rifle I finally got together.

Kaiser Defense Lower
Magpul CTR Stock
Magpul MIAD grip w/ enhanced trigger guard
Yankee Hill Black Diamond Spectre Upper
Magpul Rail Panel covers and AFG...

3 Knights Dog:




.......................DJ

Spacegun:



.......................DJ

Twins:



....................DJ

Here is one I put together this week.

BCM upper
BCM BCG
Danial Defense 12.0 Lite Rail
BCM 18" 410SS 1 in 8" barrel. SPR contour (A step down from a H-BAR)
Sabre Defence lower
Timney trigger
A.C.E. skeleton stock (I may switch to an A2)
NightForce NSX 2-10X24 W/ Burris PEPR mount.



I haven't shot it yet but I'm hoping for good things here.

Terry

Since SPR's have been popular, here's mine.
Noveske 1/7 SPR barrel, JP VTAC tube, Leupold 3.5-10 w/B&C reticle (good out to 400 yards with 77SMK's), SOPMOD stock, upgraded RRNM trigger.

since black guns are evil...

17" RECCE, Kreiger 1/8 barrel, Troy TRX Battle rail, upgraded RRNM trigger, it now wears a SOPMOD stock again but need updated pics and a Leupold MK4 3.5-10 is on the way with M1 knobs.

My light weights, 16" Colt 1/7 barrels, LaRue rails, Magpul CTR stocks, Leupold 1.5-5 scopes in LaRue mounts, (though the bottom now wears an Aimpoint Micro)
Top one has an upgraded RRNM trigger, bottom one has a stock trigger for now anyway.

Colt light weight with the Aimpoint

My squirrel gun, S&W M&P 22LR, sold both my 10/22's as this one took over. It now wears a Leupold 1.5-5 and is the funnest gun I've bought in a long time.

Well those are nice looking ARs all but I like the hunting configuration much better. PH

you can use em all for hunting! They don't even have to be camo. I've a bolt gun thats orange/purple/yellow and it kills deer etc... perfectly fine...

dj, nice guns and pics. One question, tho....Where are all those votex 'hiders that you are such a big proponent of? Just wonderin'.....

I only have four at the moment and getting ready to build a 6x45 on a left hand Stag with a Black Hole Weaponry Barrel. 1st, 5.56, 2nd, 204 Ruger, 3rd 5.56, 4th 6.8 SPC

Rattle can job? Looks great!

TWR reminded me of my S&W also..


Wow, love this thread already. Although there is some pricey schwag that might make my wallet thinner.

Good ideas for setups and its always nice to see a variety of builds before you decide on what you want...

I build all my AR'S except for the upper on the third one. I have now replaced the A1 Stock with a Mag Pul on this rifle

Nice ARs!

Here's mine. The shorty is a Bushmaster upper on an Oly lower. 16" 1/9 HBAR.

The longer one is a Colt, SP lower and A2 upper with 20" 1/7 govt profile bbl.

I like the shortie

Likes to kill things from afar....

The devil made me do it....

I dig the Reaper. I'm gonna get this lasered on my next lower (minus the text). I have a better example at the office, but that one works.



George

Klugsheisser

I guess Les Baer just plum forgot to thread the muzzles on these barrels............................DJ

Handy Carbine:



6.5 Grendel for reaching out there:

Wow, Jon...for some reason, both of those rifle really turn my crank!!

Specs on the builds? Approximate weights? What mount on the grendel?

Updated family photo

Anyone else?

GSE Match lower w/Chip McCormich twostage trigger. CMMG upper w/ss 24" bull. Nikon 4.5-14x40 Coyote Special in RRA cantilever mount.

Little Red Riding Hood tried the SR-25 in .308; it was too heavy and kicked too hard.

Then she tried the Lightweight Colt Carbine in 5.56; it was too light, and shot a wimpy little .22

But then she picked up the custom Recce 18" in 6.5 Grendel; it was JUST right

But papa bear was waiting on a distant hill and cleaned her clock with his Remington XCR Tactical in 308... grin.

Looks like that stock and fore end match almsot perfectly on the mid left rifle. Going with different manufactureres for their version of FDE always just bugged me a big since its just a touch different here and there, but it looks almost spot on...

This Stag 6L has gone down the road but I'll still throw up a picture. The 'ol girl was a bit too heavy and I had to send her down the road. Need to stick with the lighter, faster handling ladies....

"Looks like that stock and fore end match almsot perfectly on the mid left rifle. Going with different manufactureres for their version of FDE always just bugged me a big since its just a touch different here and there, but it looks almost spot on..."

That's why I like pic threads, you can get an idea of what different cinfigurations are like.

The LMT SOPMOD does match the Troy TRX battle rail. The Magpul and Tango Down stuff is lighter. One reason to paint but I'll never paint another scope. I decided to put the MK4 on the SPR instead of the RECCE and had to strip it off the VX3. Took a can of Chemtool and lots of rubbing but it did come off.

I hear ya on the scope painting. I painted a VX-III 6.5-20x50 scope for a guy and it was kinda nerve wracking. Scopes are easily swapped and I'd hate to spend an evening much like you did

Thanks!

The carbine:

RRA lower
JP Trigger
DD upper
BCM Bolt, etc
PRI Big Latch
JP Modular Handguard
JP Gasblock
Troy folding battlesights
16" Lilja drop in barrel (223 Wylde)
Levang linear compensator
MIAD grip
UBR Stock
SS 3-9 in a 20 MOA AADMOUNT

The Grendel:

RRA lower
JP Trigger
ASA Side Charger Upper
Troy Extreme battle rail
24" LW heavy varmint contour barrel (6.5 CSS)
MIAD grip
PRS Stock
Premier 3-15 in a 20 MOA AADMOUNT

That's an old pic though it's currently wearing a 3.5-18 IOR in an AADMOUNT.

Without optics or the bipods the carbine weighs 8 lbs 5 oz. It "feels" lighter though being short and handy and the barrel balances well with the stock.

The Grendel is 10 lbs 6 oz bare as it isn't meant to be carried much, especially with 3 lbs of optics + bipod! But it's great for cheap, accurate practice 500-1100+ yds. I did thump a meat doe with it at 420 yds a while back, so it'll get the job done on non-steel targets as well.

Please excuse the thread drift but:

JonA, what loads have worked well in your Grendel?.............DJ

DPMS lowpro OD green duracoat upper and Stag lower.

I've had great luck with both the 140 A-Max and 140 Berger VLD on top of 26.5-27.5 TAC. You can get another ~50 fps or so with 27.5-28.5 AA2520 but TAC seems to burn cleaner, give slightly better accuracy, they say it's more temp insensitive (haven't tested myself) and I've got a ton of it and love how it meters (no weighing charges) so that's what I use. Around 27 grains is a nice mild load with either and extremely accurate.

I did mess around with 123 SMK's on 29 grais of TAC and they did OK but the accuracy wasn't quite as good. I didn't try too hard as the 140's did so well it wasn't worth the effort. If I was going to do more hunting with it, I'd probably try 123 A-Max's or 130 Sciroccos for a bit "flatter" close range trajectory. But for what I do the 140's work great.

New Frontier upper w/BHW 5r rifling, 20" SS bbl, RRA lower w/3lb timney trigger, 6x45 cal. Nikon BM 6-18x44 SF mildot scope.
My R15 to my right that I loan to my pals when they go calling w/me.

CMMG 6.8

Here's pics of my goodies..Hoping to add a ARP 6.8 upper to the list soon!

Top: Doublestar lower with RRA A4 6.8spc upper
2nd: Mega Upper/Lower with Bushmaster Predator Barrel Kit
3rd: Stag Lower with Bushmaster varmint special upper(trigger out awaiting a bill springfield trigger job
4th: RRA Predator Pursuit

Armalite with a 4.5 x 14 VX111 and a bean bandit.

My first AR DTI Car 15. Only changes so far are new scope from Sun Optics in Cleburne TX.

How about some M4A1s, M203s, SR25s and a few M24s thrown in for kicks. These were from my "office" not too long ago.:



My personally owned favorites:

The lightweight hunter:





The precision rig:

The bird hunting Colt:

Here's a Few:

family dinner - couple Noveske's, Sabre Defence and an LR308 in there.

Wow I like these a whole whole bunch! If I ever build an AR it'll be similar to these.

Thumbs Up for sure DJ.

PS: Glad to see a fellow Oklahoman

This is a terrible thread. You guys all have the disease.

Must not... be tempted... must resist... the dark side.

Oh, hell, maybe just one for coyote zappin'. Let's hear some recommendations, starting with the best "stock" models.

I'll bump this up with one you've already all seen

Something a bit different...









Peace River Classic.

Powder coated, fluted, laminated, TiN coated, MK trigger, etc, etc.

And, it shoots under 1/2 MOA.

I love the OA-93 have these two on the night stand both with 100 round Beta-Mags ready for the Bad guys



I would still like to get into Mackay's work gun closet

Sweet rigs!

Here's mine--223 AI ISSI upper/old DPMS VLD Magazine allows for good 75 A-Max bullet seating depth to "magazine length."

My Tactical 20 I put together several years ago. Upper by DTECH. The lower was my first build with an ACE stock and Timney trigger. It is like a laser out there on the PD fields.



The is when it was out stretching it's legs last summer in northern Arizona. Best shot of the day was 380 yards.



Greg

Bumping it up...

I've posted this pic elsewhere but it needs to go here also now that I've finished putting the second one together. One is 100% RRA and the other is RRA except for the stripped lower.

That is different.

With the stock set up does it still require the extra high rings?

Terry

AR rifles have reached the point where they all pretty much look alike. Parts is parts, as the old chicken commercial says.

You can chew on an old gizzard if you want to...

Here's mine.

.223 20" Krieger 1 in 7.7" twist SS barrel, Daniel Defense 12.0 Lite Rail, A2 stock, Timney trigger and a US Optics 1.8-10X44 scope. It's a nice accurate rifle.


6.5 Grendel 18" Satern 1 in 8.75" twist SS barrel. Carbon 10" tube, ACE stock, RRA MN trigger and a Leupold MR/T 2-7X35 scope. I only have about 60 rounds down the barrel but it looks VERY promising. On it's last trip out 3 of the 4 groups I shot were sub MOA.


I think this is the ultimate AR fun gun. It's a S&W 5.45X39. It's basicly bone stock except for the Troy rail and ACE stock. It wears a Burris 2-7X?? Fullfield Tactical scope and is just a hoot to play with It's reasonably accurate and cheap to shoot.


I guess they do sorta look the same but they never seem to get old

Terry

A bone stock AR10A4, 16" stainless barrel

Some great looking rigs in here!

Here's mine: It's a SPIKES 5.56. Upgrades: Muzzle Break is a PWFSC 5.56, SPIKES Free Float, R-Guns Nickel Boron BCG, CMC trigger, and that is the SPARC red dot. I already had the flashlight.. so why not? I'm probably going to swap it and the foregrip out for a bipod in the coming weeks.

Heres a few pics of mine

Bushy varminter?

yep
it is

How do you like it? Got a buddy who wanted to do a custom build but for the price I can get the 20" upper, I figure it might be good enough for him. I know you aren't going to win high-power matches with it, but what kind of accuracy are you getting from everyday ammo?

HAK, you might be surprised... my cousin has a varminter (24" barrel) that shoots 1/2" groups pretty routinely. Throw away their 2 stage trigger and it ain't a bad gun.

I shoot reloaded ammo in it, mostly SMK 69 with 25.5 varget loaded mag length 2.260 and get dime sized groups at 100 yds.It shoots my reloaded 55 grainers just as well too.The shot cycle on these is so smooth ,it's totally different than a 16"AR,hardly any recoil or muzzle flip.I actually like the 2 stage trigger in this one ,i adjusted it to get it to my liking and it's really nice.I will post up some group pics if i can find them.

Crow sniper, if you got one (trigger) that stays in adjustment then you got a decent trigger but most of them don't, including cuzz's.

My 20 Tactical. Upper done by Dtech with my first lower that I did using a Timney trigger. It is quite the PD shooter. Way out there the trajectory really works for the shooter.






Greg

M&P 15. RRA two stage trigger. She's a killin' little slut.








Travis

Very nice pics. I'd take pics of my kills but I would need a wide angle lens.

Greg

I save the wide angle stuff for when I pose naked.


Travis

I agree,guess i got a good one mine has been trouble free for several years now.

nother space gun. 26" pac-nor, John Holliger built upper, jewell trigger, centra sights, ajustable A1 buttstock. 223 1n7

Newest build for a buddy...

Here's my recent old school purchase. I put a 6.5x20 vari-x III on it for now.





26" Mike Rock Bbl.

'Nother pink one









Here it is pure white after the base coat/reassembly...

Mine:

Both began as 16" mid length guns, but have grown longer barrels since then:



the 10 is the same lower I previously posted, but it just acquired a CMC trigger, Armalite SASS upper, and a Nightforce. The jury is till out on the paint on the scope

The 15 is wearing a Armalite 20" heavy barrel and free float upper, that I installed, aAs well as a CNC trigger. It is scary accurate.

A few of my current configurations...

223 wylde

5.56

308

6.8

Oooohhhh I like the looks of that Mega 308! ...... Dj

Thanks! I need a better scope for it... maybe a 2.5-10 or so

Just with the Mega receiver set, DD rail, and UBR stock that thing is pricey! Dream build thats for sure...congrats man!!

My pof308 Love This thing...

Travis!

My wife and two girls would love that pink one.

NYH1!

Send me one and I'll paint it up!

I guess you could say I've got the AR bug, as back in November of 2011, I had exactly zero ARs. Now I've got three of them complete and a fourth that's just missing a handful of parts.

The 1st one is my daughter's. It's a Palmetto State lower that I assembled myself (1st one) with their lower parts kit. The stock is a Magpul MOE. Upper is a DPMS 1:9", 16", SS, heavy barrel in 223. She and I painted the stock, handguard, grip, and magazine using Krylon Fusion. I had ordered her a pink Hogue handguard and grip, but she wanted red instead, so like most women, she got what she wanted. Scope mount is a JP Enterprises unit with a Leupold VX-R 1.25-4.





The second rifle I put together is a Scorpion Tactical lower, generic lower parts kit with a JP Enterprises triggger spring kit, which makes for a surprisingly nice trigger. Magpul MOE triggerguard and grip with a Magpul ACS stock in Foliage Green. The upper is built by White Oak with the 1:7" twist, 18" SPR contour barrel in 223 Wylde. Topped off with a LaRue mount and a 2.5-10x24 Nightforce NXS.





Numero tres is a Scorpion Tactical lower with generic parts kit and a Timney trigger. It's got a Magpul MOE Plus grip, MOE stock, and MOE triggerguard. The upper is a 264LBC that I picked up second-hand, built by Specialized Dynamics with a 19.5", 1:8" twist, Lilja barrel, threaded 5/8-24, which should work nicely with the Thunder Beast 30P-1 I have on order. It's topped with a LaRue mount and a Mil-Spec Nightforce NXS 3.5-15x50. I plan on launching 100gr TTSXs out of it at piggies.

If they don't spray until they lock open and have smoke roll off the barrel, they just aren't complete...

Here is(was) my AR collection. I recently traded off the one on the left it's a Superior Lower, DPMS Sportical upper, Ace Socom adjustable stock, 20" Model1Sales 5.56 1 in 9 twist fluted barrel,DPMS BCG Daniel Defense LPK, Hogue FFT and Pistol grip, MAGPUL BUIS, EOTECH 512 (I kept that), Bennie Coolie Compensator. Shoots 1 MOA with pretty much every cheap range round I put through it.

The one on the right is my build I just finished a few weeks ago. Dtech lower, Daniel Defense upper, YHM quad rail, DPMS BCG Blackstar 20" .223 NM 1 to 9 Twist stainless barrel, RRA 2 stage LPK, Magpul butt stock, DPMS pistol grip, JP Enterprises Muzzle break, Burris PEPR 30 MM scope mount, Leupold VX-III 4.5-14x40 30MM tube scope. Haven't shot it yet.

Got a .22LR upper in the works as well as a 6.8 complete rifle.


Here is a better pic of the AR I'm never getting rid of.

Just finished this one:

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Here's one I did for a buddy: