My Aero FDE M4E1 6.5 Grendel build

[AeroFDE6.5]

I finally got all of my parts gathered and assembled. Of course I still have to do a headspace check, get optics/mount, ammo, and mags, but it feels good to have all the parts together. The handguard is off the cerakoater at the time of this post.

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Geno

[A5BLASTER]

Looks good.

I'm going to changing out a lower on one of my 18 inch grendel to that lower.

Got a line on one new in pack for 50 bucks.

[AeroFDE6.5]

Nice deal. You definitely pay a premium for the M4E1 for the FDE lowers- but we all have our character flaws. We want what we want.

Geno

[A5BLASTER]

Nice deal. You definitely pay a premium for the M4E1 for the FDE lowers- but we all have our character flaws. We want what we want.

Geno

Yea couldnt pass it up local shop, guy only has one got it and a fde on a trade told him 50 bucks next check he said deal and locked it up till I get payed.

[Kswhitetails]

Thumbs up on the fde. I’m partial to it as well. What are your plans for the optic?

[AeroFDE6.5]

Thumbs up on the fde. I’m partial to it as well. What are your plans for the optic?

I'm budgeting for a Nikon Black x1000 6-24x50. I did see Vortex has a 5-24x50 Strike Eagle for about $15 less, but I want to try Nikon this time (I have a Vortex Viper HS 4-16x44 on my M5E1 .308 build- needs more scope too).

Geno

[bman940]

Aero, You may have picked the right time to step into a Nikon BLACK FX1000 scope. Right now Nikon is giving away with the purchase of the BLACK FX1000 a BLACK Series mount. That alone is worth $150. I have been using them on my BLACK X1000 scopes for over a year now and love it. Solid lock up, no lapping needed and it looks great too. I believe the promo goes until the end of Aug. but my guess is they will run out of mounts and they will end up backordered . Just a hunch. I just bought a BLACK FX1000, before the promo came into effect. Going to put it on my 6.5 CM, should be a great pairing.

[Shadow Knows]

Nice build. I tire of black and yet I built my Grendel on a black platform, soon to change colors. I like it.

[AeroFDE6.5]

Aero, You may have picked the right time to step into a Nikon BLACK FX1000 scope. Right now Nikon is giving away with the purchase of the BLACK FX1000 a BLACK Series mount. That alone is worth $150. I have been using them on my BLACK X1000 scopes for over a year now and love it. Solid lock up, no lapping needed and it looks great too. I believe the promo goes until the end of Aug. but my guess is they will run out of mounts and they will end up backordered . Just a hunch. I just bought a BLACK FX1000, before the promo came into effect. Going to put it on my 6.5 CM, should be a great pairing.

Bman,
I did notice that the other day- I was planning to use an Aero precision FDE 30mm Ultralight scope mount, but a freebie is a freebie.

Geno

[AeroFDE6.5]

Nice build. I tire of black and yet I built my Grendel on a black platform, soon to change colors. I like it.

Thanks for the kind words. I know the difficulty cerakoaters have in matching Aero's "FDE"- I'm fully expecting it to not match the receivers at all. I was tempted to pull it all apart, send the receivers in too, but I went through that order with my Aero M5E1 build- very frustrating. At this point I really don't care- I just want to get the handguard back on the rifle, optics on it and shoot it!

Geno

[bman940]

Agree, free is my favorite price. I'm sure you could sell that BLACK Series mount if you decided not to use it but I promise you it is well made and you will have zero regrets mounting it on your build. Looking forward to a range reprt when the time is right.

Here's a pic of one of my Nikon BLACK Series mounts on a AR

[AeroFDE6.5]

Bart, Nice AR, dude.

Geno

[flatland1]

I've bought a lot of Aero Precision uppers/lowers/handguard-rails with FDE finish already applied. It took me a bit to realize that they use Magpul FDE instead of plain old CeraKote FDE, but it said so right there on their website. I've used a lot of H-265 FDE over the past several years, but feel the H-267 Magpul version is much more attractive. And yes, I can see a slight difference in tint when using parts supplied already coated with those I've coated myself. As long as the texture of the finish is the same, I can live with the slight difference in tint. If I were putting an AR together for a customer, and had the time to order in parts for his build, I'd go with their coated upper/lower/handguard, but wouldn't hesitate to do the bbl, buffer tube, & etc parts myself.

I really like their new M4E1 lowers, and have also used a goodly number of M4E1 uppers with their handguards. Same goes for the M5E1/AR10 parts.

[AeroFDE6.5]

My handguard finally came back from the cerakoaters- thanks to Jacob England at KAE Custom Coatings for another beautiful job.

Geno
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[Kswhitetails]

Beautiful rifle Geno, congratulations. Well done.