My new AR-15!

[Todd_ID]

After a couple of weeks of collecting parts from all over I finally have it all together!  The upper and lower are from Bravo Company and appear to be of excellent quality.  They have an excellent reputation online, and it appears to be well deserved.  The grips, sights and forearm are all Magpul MOE.  Stock is standard M4 from Bravo Company with a little Krylon Camo spray paint (same paint with bipod and scope mounts).  The bipod is from Cheaper Than Dirt 9-13".  Scope is Bushnell 4-12 x 40.  Red dot sight is a Tru-Glo 1x.  Scope mounts/rails are from CTD and are their .83" model that gets the iron sights to be in the lower 1/3 of the red dot scope and invisible in the 4-12 scope.

I got out and shot 200 rounds getting used to it and sighting in the red dot and iron sights.  I had several magazine feeding problems toward the end as it started getting dirty.  I had the cheap 30 rd GI mags with green followers from Bravo Company shooting the cheapest ammo from Cabela's (Herter's steel .223 55 grain FMJ), so I wasn't expecting to do much better than I did.  I bought one Magpul P-Mag and never had a problem with it, so I'll stick with them from now on.  I was shooting about 3" groups at 50 yards with the iron sights and was able to shoot inside a 1" square every shot with the red dot at 50, so I was very happy with that.  I haven't shot with the scope on it yet, so true accuracy tests are not in, but it looks promising.  I put a bunch of holes in a couple different steel targets that were 12x12 1/8" plate, and that was just flat out fun!

[Blacklab]

Lookin good  .

[400out]

Very nice Todd I like it! we will have to get together up in them there hills and chase some dogs 

[Wea300mag]

Great looking set-up Todd, very cool.

[Wenatcheejay]

Pretty EBR 

[Todd_ID]

Very nice Todd I like it! we will have to get together up in them there hills and chase some dogs 

I'm thinking the very same thing!  With any luck I'll be able to thump one at 250 or 4 of them at 50!

[mr.ktm95]

Thats awesome

[PacificNWhunter]

Sweet set up.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Very nice!  Hate to be a wet blanket, but a tip that might save you some grief:  DON'T SHOOT STEEL CASE AMMO!

[Scott]

Very nice!  Hate to be a wet blanket, but a tip that might save you some grief:  DON'T SHOOT STEEL CASE AMMO!

 

[Todd_ID]

Very nice!  Hate to be a wet blanket, but a tip that might save you some grief:  DON'T SHOOT STEEL CASE AMMO!

 

All I can find about steel case ammo is that it might score the chamber.  If that's the only problem, then I'll accept it.  I plan to try and shoot out the barrel if I can, but I don't think it'll happen, even with cheap ammo.  I will buy a 24" stainless bull barrel in the next couple of months to put on it for pure accuracy.  Pretty please tell why steel ammo is no good!  I want to feed this thing what it needs!

[FC]

Very nice!  Hate to be a wet blanket, but a tip that might save you some grief:  DON'T SHOOT STEEL CASE AMMO!

I guess my guns will be doomed someday then and I've only fired thousands of rounds of steel cased ammo through most of my guns  

Steel cased ammo doesn't hurt your gun, if you have a malfunction when using it there is something wrong with your firearm.

Check a steel case against a brass one to see which one deforms easier, it will be the steel case.

[Heredoggydoggy]

The steel case isn't the problem--it's the coating that keeps the case from rusting.  As the chamber heats up, the coating sticks to the surfaces of the chamber and builds up.  Eventually you get a case stuck in the chamber, or prevents a round from chambering.  Guns like Russian AK's, and the H&Ks with fluted chambers are made to work with steel cased ammo.  Guns with smooth chambers are not.  One of the local gun shops has a Glock that blew up in its owner's hand because of steel case ammo.  The slide is locked so hard that efforts to open it with a hammer failed.  The shooter wasn't injured, but an expensive gun was destroyed because the owner was too cheap to buy good ammo.  Also several rifles have been taken in to the gun shop with steel cases stuck in the chambers.  Shoot steel cased ammo at your own risk.  The only gun I own that I'll shoot steel case ammo in is my HK-94, that has a fluted chamber, and even then I only shot 1 box of the stuff because it was given to me to get rid of.

[hoyt2002]

very nice AR todd

[FC]

The steel case isn't the problem--it's the coating that keeps the case from rusting.  As the chamber heats up, the coating sticks to the surfaces of the chamber and builds up.  Eventually you get a case stuck in the chamber, or prevents a round from chambering. 

I've heard this same old story many times, if you look around you will find a few tests people have done to try and make their rifle fail in this manner and they were unable to do so. I've tried it in mine and was unable to get it to do this and I've never discovered anything other than carbon in any of the guns that I fire steel cased ammo through.

It's carbon that hangs cases in chambers, clean your gun properly and it won't be a problem. Buy a chamber brush and use it after every outing with an AR.

A Glock blew up due to steel case stuff huh? I guess that's good enough proof for me that an XD(m) is a better gun I've fired thousands of steel cased rounds through it although never more than 300-400 in any given day I don't think.