AR-15

[CastleRocker]

Whatever you do...DO NOT GET AN AR-15!!! 

If you liked Lego's when you were young, and ended up with a lot of them when you grew out of them, this AR thing will become just like that.  At least it has for me. 

This is my story.  Like a lot of folks, I bought my first one right after our last presidential election.  Then I started to change components on it.  Then I started putting them together myself.  Right after that, Remington came out with their R-15 in full camo!  Had to have one of those.  Oh!  What do you mean, they make it in .204?  Had to build one of those too.  But wait, I really love my .17 Remington for predator hunting when the pelts are prime, and what's that?  I can build one of those in an AR?  Man, I lost a lot of 17 Remington brass with that one.  Hmmm, what if I just neck down a 223 to 17?  Oh, that's been done?  Cool, I don't have to have a reamer built, and I had another project.  (Great rifle by the way!)  Go to thinking...it sure would be great to have an upper in a larger caliber.  A guy named Mike Milli, http://www.dtechsuperstore.com/ is a fastastic builder.  Sooo, I have one in 25 WSSM.  It's my favorite (at least for now).  I know antelope hate it.  I have a Black Hole Weaponry barrel in 6.5 Grendel that I'm building an upper on for my wife for Montana antelope right now.  Which reminds me, I better get out to the shop instead of reading and typing.

I just wanted to warn you before you start down this road.  If I had to do it all over....I'd do it all again!

[tides56]

Bushmaster. Instead of paying 1 to 2 grand for an AR. You should look into AR kits. Around 600 dollars and a lot of fun putting them together. Shoots like its straight from the shelves.

[Wazzu]

Colt Sporter 

[grundy53]

Get a bigbore AR-15 that you can hunt with!  I love my .450 Bushmater! 

I'm building one of these right now. Can't wait for the parts to get here. This is my first build.

[Biggerhammer]

The 6.5 Grendel is a exellent cartridge, to convert a standard AR all you need is a barrel, Grendel bolt and magazine. I helped my brother build his first AR in 6.5 Grendel, he built it from the ground up. The first year he hunted with it. He took this Mulie clean at 493 yards using a Vortex 2-7 with the BDC, the scopes BDC matched the 120gr Nosler Ballistic Tip load perfectly. As you can see in the photos I only overlooked one thing, I forgot the Alexander 16" M4 barrel has a mid length gas system. We had ordered a carbine length hand guard and didn't have time to ordered another hand hard and change it out before he took it hunting, It  worked just the same but you can see the gas tube hanging out there. His carbine is increadably accurate esspecialy with the factory Hornady 123 A-Max's.

[marlin]

Im about to build an upper in .300 blackout, so I can use the same bolt and magazine as .223, but be able to hunt with it if I want. Maybe sometime Ill be able to get a suppressor, so it will be good for that too.

[dscubame]

Can someone suggest a shop in spokane that has extensive ar15 parts and experience?