New AR

[JDGray]

My new toy showed up today, finally After sending my MO to the wrong address and a 2 1/2 week wait, my new RRA 9mm, is home. Now I gotta go zero the eotech

 

[retrieverman]

looks great.

 

[yosarian]

Good job she looks great.

 

[possum]

very nice congrats, i can't wait to hear about how she runs!

 

[JDGray]

Just ran 100rds through it, and I'm very pleased It ran perfect on the factory mag, but neither of the C-Products mags I bought work. FTF and stovepipe jams galore. I read somewhere that the feed lips need some material removed to function. The factory mag will not lock the bolt open, but the C-P mags did, go figure. I zeroed the eotech at 25 yrds, and it stayed the same out to 50. Shot a bunch of 3 holes touching, groups off the rest, at 25yrds. I gotta admit, the recoil is plenty noticeable, and that supprised me. I figured a 7# rifle would eat it up, and feel like a 22. Now I need to modify some mags

 

[Winston_Smith]

Nice tool, does it just take Uzi mags?

 

[no_problem]

Lookin good

 

[Sylvan-Forge]

"If they get outta line, hose 'em down with 9!"

Nice!

.

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

That's pretty cool.

 

[JDGray]

Thanks guys! C Products has a disclaimer on their web site, to lower the mag block in RRA rifles, .015-.020, for the mags to work. Well see how that goes. My 11yr old son can't get enough of this gun, He shot it almost as well as I did yesterday

 

[ForneyRider]

Does anyone make a 45ACP upper?

 

[Walkalong]

Hey JD. That looks and sounds great. I hope mine shows up this week. I intend to put an old Aimpoint 5000 I have on it. Thanks for the tip in your other thread and answering my PM. I dropped my MO in the mail last Tuesday AM.

I have read on arfcom the Pmags have some issues, but it seems they can be made to work.

 

[JDGray]

Walkalong,
Bet your serial# is very close to mine Talk to RRA this morning, said none of their converted uzi mags hold the bolt open, good thing with this lower is just remove the mag block, and get a .223 upper, and your good to go for a true rifle caliber. The newer 9mm only lower, is just that, no long cartridges

Forney,
Olympic offers a 45 upper assembly

 

[JDGray]

Update

After moving the mag block down .015, all mags now run 100%

Winston_Smith Nice tool, does it just take Uzi mags?

The gun is supplied with one, 25rd modified uzi mag

 

[vikz]

Nice rifle!!.I have a bushmaster carbon15 in 9mm too and they are a lot of fun to shoot, mine only has a regular red dot on it ..my bolt opens on the last round though and i really want to get one more mags but not sure which one to get..

 

[vikz]

jd so i can remove the magblock and i can get another 223 upper for it??

 

[JDGray]

If your Bushmaster is set up like my RRA, I dont see why not. I'd give them a call to be safe

 

[Walkalong]

I picked mine up today JDGray.

I the Aimpoint 5000 on it with a mount that came with a S.P.O.T. red dot that I put on my .223 AR using a Burris mount and will try it out this weekend, if not sooner.

 

[sundance43.5]

This may end up being an incredibly retarded question, but I haven't even looked at my RRA 9mm yet. How do I lower the block .15"?

Thanks

 

[JDGray]

This may end up being an incredibly retarded question, but I haven't even looked at my RRA 9mm yet. How do I lower the block .15"?

There's an allan screw on the frt of the mag block, just loosen it, and slide the mag block down a sliver,tighten the allan. I found a point on the block, to take a referance measurement with my calipers, and just do the math

.015-.020 is the amount to drop

 

[JDGray]

Walkalong,
Looks great! And you got a newer rifle by a hundred or so

My trigger group is enroute to Bill Springfield for a 4lb smoothy, thanks for the link

Bad thing is, when I get my pieces parts back, I won't be able to get it away from this guy

 

[10MMGary]

JDGray that is a great photo of your son shooting, good job dad . I love seeing young shooters taking to the sport, nice carbine BTW.

 

[f4t9r]

That is nice , I want one

 

[Walkalong]

Bad thing is, when I get my pieces parts back, I won't be able to get it away from this guy

That is what my Kel-Tec is for. At least that way I'll get to shoot it some while they shoot the Kel-Tec. I sold a CX-4 Storm to help finance the RRA. It was a good little carbine, but it just did not flip my switch.

Your boy looks like a natural. Must be his teacher, huh.

 

[JDGray]

Thanks for the comments! We were shooting at 100yrds, a streatch for the 9mm, without magnification. We still managed to keep everything in a 8" group.