Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Best AR15 for $1,000.00 - $1,200.00?

Our Wally World doesn't carry any guns. I'll check around.

Just order one to your local GS.


Colt 6920 lots of choices

What's the best deal on a good quality AR with a budget of up to about $1,200.00?

the question noone asked is what do you want the gun to do?? home defense, plinking, target shooting, do you want to do some coyote calling with it. before someone says just buy a colt, I don't agree with that it depends on your use for the gun. the colt people are worried about milspec parts because they are going to be a soldier fighting terrorists in afghanistan someday.

I am a rock river fan, unless there is something wrong with the RRA gun its going to shoot circles around the colt in the accuracy department. A chrome lined bore will generally never shoot as good. I don't want a chrome lined bore. some don't care about accuracy if 1.5- 2 MOA is plenty accurate for you then disregard what I am saying. I am sure there are others who will chime in and say their colt is a half minute gun. I also do not want a 1:7 twist barrel. that is too much twist IMO, I prefer to shoot lighter bullets in my AR 15's 1:9 is about ideal but if you get stuck with 1:8 its ok. but this gets back to what you want the gun to do, some people may want to shoot 80 grain bullets if they want.

I also feel the colt is very options limited, you get a crappy trigger that will need something done to it in order for the gun to be half way shootable. for the same money with RRA you get a very shootable 2 stage NM trigger. so again back to what you wanna do with the gun, how important is a decent trigger to you?? for me I like sub MOA accuracy and I like good triggers. I could be called a trigger snob, thats just me though. I say get a rock river you can't go wrong with it.