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95% finished.
Noreen Firearms Billet with 15" Matrix Arms Keymod.
BCA 20" barrel & BCG.
Wheeler Engineerings FDE Ceramic-Coat.
Seekins K20 AFG & Survival Syndicate comp.
E-Lander mags on hand, C-Product mags on back order from Brownells.
Ran outta funds for the PRS stock & optics I want so the 3-12x40 & Magpuls FCS will reside until I get a couple overtime pays in the fun account.
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Nice looking rifle! How does it shoot?
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I have no idea .
Sadly the weather here is not playing nice.
I assembled it Jan 19th.
So it's just sitting here taunting me !!!
About all I can do until the weather breaks & the range road clears is take photos.
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Well, I for one think it looks great. I'm kinda partial to FDE rifles though...
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This is my first true FDE AR.
I swapped all the furniture on my three 300blk ARs to FDE.
But it didn't have the visual effect I'd really wanted and since I spend more time looking at them than shooting them.....
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They do look good in the evening sun...
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Sent back the 3-12x & found a 4.5-18x & a taller mount for it !
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Now, enough fiddling around with this.
It's time to start stocking up on ammunition so I'm ready when the weather finally breaks !!!
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That looks pretty sick.
Did you lap the receiver face or bed the barrel into the upper?
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LRRPF52 Wrote:That looks pretty sick.
Did you lap the receiver face or bed the barrel into the upper?
Is that something you always do? I've never done that with my guns.
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ClutchAutomatic Wrote:Is that something you always do? I've never done that with my guns.
I've been inside the guts of ARs now since the 1980s. Haven't bought a factory AR15 since no later than 1998, and I lost count of how many I've built since I started panic-buying after the CA AWB, even before the Clinton AWB. (My LaRue Stealth 2.0 is the first factory AR15 I've owned in 20 years.)
When I put one together now, it doesn't even feel like working on an AR15 anymore, not like I used to do anyway.
Parts selection is a totally different process as I've become more informed, and parts preparation and build approach might as well be another gun.
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Beautiful rifle! Love that dark earth color on black.
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Nice looking rifle! In for the range report.
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