I just wanted to share, because everybody loves pics. You can scroll past the story if you want. 
I've been playing the AR game for about a year now, and my rifle is FINALLY built up how I want it to be. I probably could have started from parts and came out a lot cheaper, but doing this in the round-about way has been great learning experience for me. This rifle began life as a Stag 2L, a 16" carbine with a LEFTY flat top upper and standard 2-piece handguards.
Over the past year I have been making small changes one or two at a time as I learn more about what I do and don't want. The most use I get out of this rifle is as a range and close-range varmint gun, but I have always wanted it to stand ready as a home defense or social work gun if needed. I decided the importance of the last two roles was great enough that I should get a right-handed upper with some mil-spec, properly built and tested parts. I have other plans for the lefty Stag upper, but my Stag lower is now wearing a Frankenupper of honest-to-goodness, right-handed stuff.
Now for the good stuff! Please forgive my photo skills (or lack thereof).
KISS mode
Heavy mode
The goodies are:
I did not assemble the buffer tube, and I did not install/stake the gas key. Everything else was done by me. I even bought a torque wrench for the barrel nut! There are worse diseases to have than AR fever. . .
I've been playing the AR game for about a year now, and my rifle is FINALLY built up how I want it to be. I probably could have started from parts and came out a lot cheaper, but doing this in the round-about way has been great learning experience for me. This rifle began life as a Stag 2L, a 16" carbine with a LEFTY flat top upper and standard 2-piece handguards.
Over the past year I have been making small changes one or two at a time as I learn more about what I do and don't want. The most use I get out of this rifle is as a range and close-range varmint gun, but I have always wanted it to stand ready as a home defense or social work gun if needed. I decided the importance of the last two roles was great enough that I should get a right-handed upper with some mil-spec, properly built and tested parts. I have other plans for the lefty Stag upper, but my Stag lower is now wearing a Frankenupper of honest-to-goodness, right-handed stuff.
Now for the good stuff! Please forgive my photo skills (or lack thereof).
KISS mode
Heavy mode
The goodies are:
- Stag lower
- Magpul MIAD
- VLTOR clubfoot Modstock
- Ambi safety and Norgon Ambi-Catch (Lefties unite!)
- Homebrew polished the trigger/sear/disconnect to get the grittiness out
- LMT standard upper with 16" M4 profile 1/7" MPI and chrome lined barrel
- "Super Duty" BCG from Denny's Guns (CMT MPI bolt with a chrome lined carrier from somebody big (think ponies))
- Badger tac-latch
- Midwest Industries T10 handguard over a lo-pro gas block
- MI flip up BUIS front and rear
- EOTech 512
- Surefire M962
- Smith Vortex flash hider
- $11 Promag VFG (I'm proud of that one. Probably going to keep it 'til I die!)
- Plain-Jane 2-point sling running from buttstock to receiver end of handguard with QD swivels
I did not assemble the buffer tube, and I did not install/stake the gas key. Everything else was done by me. I even bought a torque wrench for the barrel nut!
There are worse diseases to have than AR fever. . .
