DMK
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In this thread Here, ya'll helped me out with deciding what to buy. Midway down the thread, I decided to put one together myself and I thought you nice folks might like to see what ended up with.
I bought a pre-assembled Rock River 16" midlength, Flattop carbine upper, with a detachable carry handle from Adco Firearms. It's not a chrome plated barrel, but the only thing I don't like about it is it has a heavy barrel. It's not that bad though. Fully assembled, the rifle weighs about the same as my SAR1. I still might get it turned down to a thinner profile at some point though.
The stripped Eagle Arms lower came from Quantico Arms. It's stuffed with Rock River parts from Adco. The Falcon Ergo grip came from Brownells.
Using from these instructions from www.ar15.com, the lower was super easy to build. All the parts fit perfectly, there were no surprises. Even with taking my time and being exceptionally carefull, I put it together in about two hours last night. The lower and upper fit together very tightly and even the finishes look very close after oiling them both with FP-10.
I'm extremely pleased with it. I took it to the range this morning to function test and sight in, shooting 60 rounds of Federal XM193. Even though it was snowing, windy and very cold, the carbine functioned perfectly with USGI, UK-SA80 and Israeli Orlite magazines. There were zero failures, glitches or unexpected issues. Using the Improved Battlesight Zero method, all I needed to do to get it sighted in was give it one click down on the front sight and one click to the right on the rear. Although I was shivering pretty bad, I was able to get it down to a 1" 5 shot group @50 yards just resting elbows on the bench and did a couple 2-3" 5 shot groups standing.
I guess now I need to build a 20" barrelled rifle.
I bought a pre-assembled Rock River 16" midlength, Flattop carbine upper, with a detachable carry handle from Adco Firearms. It's not a chrome plated barrel, but the only thing I don't like about it is it has a heavy barrel. It's not that bad though. Fully assembled, the rifle weighs about the same as my SAR1. I still might get it turned down to a thinner profile at some point though.
The stripped Eagle Arms lower came from Quantico Arms. It's stuffed with Rock River parts from Adco. The Falcon Ergo grip came from Brownells.
Using from these instructions from www.ar15.com, the lower was super easy to build. All the parts fit perfectly, there were no surprises. Even with taking my time and being exceptionally carefull, I put it together in about two hours last night. The lower and upper fit together very tightly and even the finishes look very close after oiling them both with FP-10.
I'm extremely pleased with it. I took it to the range this morning to function test and sight in, shooting 60 rounds of Federal XM193. Even though it was snowing, windy and very cold, the carbine functioned perfectly with USGI, UK-SA80 and Israeli Orlite magazines. There were zero failures, glitches or unexpected issues. Using the Improved Battlesight Zero method, all I needed to do to get it sighted in was give it one click down on the front sight and one click to the right on the rear. Although I was shivering pretty bad, I was able to get it down to a 1" 5 shot group @50 yards just resting elbows on the bench and did a couple 2-3" 5 shot groups standing.
I guess now I need to build a 20" barrelled rifle.