Finally decided to cross the Rubicon. I'm building an AR15. I just can't get away from it. The conjunction between ubiquity, performance, known unknowns and cost has finally made it such that, for what I do shooting-wise, an AR just makes sense.
So, this month I am getting a stripped lower receiver from , and with it all the bits and pieces. Actually, ordering with two other guys at the same time so it gets shipped together. After that, we go after the upper receiver group. I may cheat and buy a complete upper- not sure I want to mess with staking gas tubes and whatnot. But that, a bolt carrier group and some lube, and we're done. All tolled, building in the configuration I want and doing the work myself, I can save about $250-300.
This is what it will look like when finished.
The basic black one, not the sand-colored faggotry. What am I, in Iraq or something?
The "male Barbie" aspect has kept me away from it for a long, long time. But I was just reading a story about a guy that had to defend himself from charges of being a hipster because he was smoking a pipe. Never mind that he had been smoking one for years. I've been smoking a pipe since the first Bush administration( as long as we expand our understanding of what "pipes" means in this context). Fuck hipsters, and fuck Barbie, too. Bitch never drove me to Malibu...
Don't know what it is, but I'm agin'it.