WestKentucky
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I ran across some videos today while messing around on youtube of some AR lowers made out of various types of wood. Some plywood and pine 2x material seemed sketchy as all get out but the YouTube videos showed the guns assembled and firing. Clearly not ideal with such poor materials, but with better materials... hardwoods known you not be prone to splitting... ash? How bad of an idea would this realistically be? If you made a single piece receiver/pistol grip/thumb hole stock you could have a rigid setup for the buffer tube which is the weakest point in a normal AR lower and has been the breaking point for a bunch of plastic lowers. It sounds dumb at first, but thinking through it it sounds less dumb, so realistically... how dumb is it? Certainly not for big bore calibers.