Left over AR parts

Of course another rifle comes together out of parts laying around. That’s the sickness of the AR owner... they are like rabbits, but they cost a lot more when they multiply.

A nice looking rifle for leftover parts.

Waterboy3313 said:

It's kind of weird. It's like I have new gun but I really don't want to go out and shoot it.

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That’s the bad part about fungal AR’s which arise out of spare parts - they just kind of happen out of parts you likely did NOT use in the other rifle(s) for justified reason(s), so when a box of misfit parts yield a complete rifle, it’s inevitably a rifle you didn’t really want.

I’ve rarely struggled to keep myself from letting unwanted parts becoming complete rifles, unless I felt I could better resell the parts as a complete rifle. Which is rare, as typically parts are worth more than their contribution to a complete, used home brew rifle.

and it's amazing how few parts it takes to decide to build a new gun around. I hav e a spare handguard and am trying to keep from building a whole upper to use it. Maybe 6.8spc. so lets see, I have a handguard, all I need is an upper, a barrel, ooh, I have a gas system, but wait, it's not adjustable for my can, and a bolt, lets toss in a charging handle too, and make it a raptor, I like them better. Now I need optics, and a magazine, and oh I forgot, a taper brake for my can, and reloading dies and brass. And I've got this upper, you know, you can get a complete lower for only a few bucks more and have a whole gun...............

So I have a handguard, I'm almost all the way to a new upper..............

If I had a $300-$500 rifle I didn’t want, I wouldn’t hesitate to sell it off, and I wouldn’t assume it was worthless to anyone else. Not every one is a touchdown but it could be a field goal rather than a punt. Sell it, recoup some money, and celebrate your freedom with a fine single malt. Even better, a contribution to a ROTH now, with which to buy a nice rifle down the road a ways.

You can grow AR's with sufficient money watering.... they are like weeds... tiny sprouts, grow from the tiniest spec of a part.

greyling22 said:

it's amazing how few parts it takes to decide to build a new gun around. I have a spare handguard and am trying to keep from building a whole upper to use it.

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It’s rumored @GunnyUSMC once found a spare thing that goes up and built an A2.

Thinking through this, and given the other responses, I’d suggest a training rifle for new shooters. Better than a Christmas gift if it informs others that nothing is inherently evil in a rifle and what better way than hands-on.

Extra Parts!!?? No such thing. They are parts waiting to become rifles.

I had a M16A1 grip sitting around my shop a while back. I had picked it up years ago from a Gunsmith that was cleaning out his shop. I got to thinking about used and junk parts. So I started a post about wanting to do a Junkyard build. I got a lot of help from members here on the forum and another with collecting used and unwanted parts.
The buffer tube came from my junk box. I had to use a break cylinder hone to clean up the inside of the tube so that the buffer would not get stuck.
The only new parts on the rifle are the lower, buffer, buffer spring, detentes and detente springs.
The rifle turned out very nice and is a great shooter, and is one of my favorite guns to shoot.




I have enough parts sitting around my shop to build six or seven AR's, with many parts to spare.
I have also sent some parts to other members to help them with their builds. There is no cure for the AR Bug so, all we can do is help to infect others.

What has helped me is leaving the last two Anderson lowers purchased in the blister packs. The blister packs has slowed them down from becoming complete pistols/rifles. Also burying all other spare parts in totes in the very back of a closet helped too.

The last rifle I put together started out with an old M7 bayonet and a DPMS A2 stripped upper tha I had laying around.

Dang Ye Eyes!

So after reading the comments I went to the mancave and did a search for loose AR parts. The results are grim and my situation is hopeless.
Some of the parts I justify as saving money by having it on hand in case of breakage or losing one at the range. However my situation became hopeless when I found spare three bolt latches (I wondered where one had disappeared to)

-In the words of Daffy Duck, "Hey mister! You need a house to go with this doorknob!"

Just curious, why the red muzzle device?

IndianaBoy said:

Just curious, why the red muzzle device?

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Because it's PRETTY!
Or it was just what he had sitting around.

Your FrankenBuild looks like it uses a lot of parts that are nicer than some of my planned builds. Oh, and your front sight is on backwards

looks like i have enough parts to build another. Minus the the upper, barrel and gas tube. and the small parts for the upper.

There should be a support group for this kind of thing! I’ve made a couple of rifles out of spare parts myself.