The High Road AR15 Picture Thread

[geo57]

My totally stock S&W M&P 15 Sport with the factory supplied Magpul 30 round Pmag.

I think it might be the best $525 that I've ever spent on a firearm spanning 45 years of buying. It sure makes the corners of my mouth curl in an upward arc.

So far, knock on wood 7 times, it has exhibited no negative issues of any sort and seems to hit where these old eyes of mine are aiming. All it has been fed is Federal XM193.

The steel 10" x 8" by 7/16" plate was fired at just today from 55 yards sitting offhand ( 21 hits from 22 shots fired ).

 

[jakk280rem]

Same rifle as in post 230. No changes. Range was a pinch under 100yds set at 9x. Ammo was Fiocchi 77gr SMK. The smaller 5 shot group at the upper right was the first one. I made a 2 click correction to the left and shot the larger group. The 5th shot can be seen at the bottom edge of the first group. Maybe I should have left it alone.

 

[badkarmamib]

His and hers

After I finished building mine, I started on a pistol build. I asked my wife if she had any input. Oops. She spec'd out this rifle, and said if it was not exactly this way, we wouldn't even start on it. Both are completed, exactly the way we wanted them. Sorry for the crappy phone pic.

 

[Numeric]

My kit-bashed AR:

• Anderson stripped lower
• Palmetto State lower parts kit
• Magpul CTR buttstock, MOE-K grip, and BUIS
• Spike's Tactical blemished upper receiver w/forward assist and dust cover and gas tube
• Toolcraft M16 BCG
• Bravo Company charging handle
• Faxon 16" mid-length pencil barrel and pinned low-profile gas block
• ALG Defense 13" EMR-V2 M-LOK handguard
• Smith Enterprises G6A2 Vortex flash hider

It came out all right; almost everything went together on the first go. So far it has fed, fired, and extracted 280 rounds of 1973-vintage Twin Cities AAP M193 without any issue. It weighs about 6# loaded like this. Just need a sling, red dot, and a flashlight; it's my go-to for home defense.

 

[Reloadron]

Numeric, I have to hand it to you. Very, very creative with the rifle support scheme. Never saw that done before.

Ron

 

[WardenWolf]

Radical Firearms FGS-12
Miculek compensator
Ultimate Arms Gear flip-up iron sights
Belomo PK-06 1 MOA red dot (from Kalinka Optics)
Stag Arms left-handed safety
Stag Arms A2 stock
Magpul PMag Gen3




100% reliable despite its very low base price. The rifle looks and feels like a million bucks. Superb handling.

 

[Reloadron]

Nice looking rifle for my taste which in the AR world is plain and simple.

Ron

 

[WardenWolf]

Thanks, Reloadron. I'm very happy with how it turned out. The whole setup cost less than $900. I plan to put a magnifier on it, but that's the only major thing I plan to change. I may put the iron sights on .5" risers, though, to get a more comfortable sight picture and better co-witness. Fortunately, a good riser is only around $10.

Radical Firearms makes the forearm in-house, and they also sell additional rail sections for it cheaply. I kind of wish they'd sell it separately, though. It really does everything well.

 

[Hondo 60]

Maybe not very tacticool, but it's like the one I carried.
I didn't have a scope - would've been nice.

 

[ColoradoMinuteMan]

Maybe not very tacticool, but it's like the one I carried.
I didn't have a scope - would've been nice.

Simple yet sharp. I like it!

 

[Pyzik]

Newest "build". Really I just replaced the forged receivers with CMT Billet.



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[bannockburn]

Hondo60

Very old school cool! Reminds me a lot of my Colt AR15 SP1 (always liked the round hand guards better than the original triangular ones).

 

[WardenWolf]

Nice guns, CMM and Bannockburn. I've always loved the classic M-16 look, and the feel of the A2 stock, although for practicality I prefer a flat-top. I compromised by putting an A2 stock on a flat-top.

 

[WestKentucky]

I never would have thought "man that jack lower looks good" kimberkid your making me eat my thoughts with that belt fed beast.

 

[Reloadron]

Plain and basic nostalgia.

Ron

 

[bannockburn]

reloadron

Now that's definitely some old school AR15 coolness! Liked the vintage stuff so much I even made my own version of the XM177E2:

 

[Jackal]

Here's a pic of my lightweight, 5.75lbs. Light and accurate.

Larue PredatAR barrel
Larue MBT2 trigger
Midwest rail
DD sights
DSA lightweight upper
PSA HPT/MPI bcg
BCM CH

 

[R.Ph. 380]

I gave all mine away to that homeless person in downtown Dallas who needed to pawn them for food. He was really smiling as I drove by him on the corner under the overpass................................................

 

[OilyPablo]

I gave all mine away to that homeless person in downtown Dallas who needed to pawn them for food. He was really smiling as I drove by him on the corner under the overpass................................................

Same guy! He was in Seattle year before last , right before 594. He sure did go through the proceeds rapidly.

 

[Creature]

Paint 'em and use 'em!

(Aervoe Olive Drab Green)

 

[Pyzik]

Paint 'em and use 'em!

(Aervoe Olive Drab Green)

Nice!

My latest


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[Reloadron]

bannockburn, thanks and I just gravitate to simple. One of the SP1 rifles was my brothers who needed money on a "short" term loan. Been over a year so I guess I now have two Colt SP1 rifles.

Ron

 

[kimberkid]

I'm pretty sure we all have parts left over from up-grades, parts bought on impulse, maybe because it was on sale, too good to pass up or to have an extra "just-in-case" or maybe for some project that just didn't happen ...

That's what this is ... just a collection of used, left overs and take-off's, most of which I've had for so long I don't remember what they were from, with the exception of the blue receiver ... It's a pre-ban PWA that was so cheap I couldn't say no ... and I thought it was paint I could take off ... Nope, it's been anodized blue..

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The stock is a CMMG that came off something, buffer is standard that was replaced for an H or H2, trigger is standard replaced probably for a RRA 2-stage, the rest of the LPK were mostly parts replaced by laser engraved parts; the barrel is a used 1-7 middi that was part of a trade/cash for a HK Model 4 I had; it's had a few rounds through it, the handguards & BCG are from a Osprey Defense piston conversion I did on a different AR; the piston grip & railed gas block from a AR pistol that I upgraded with a bunch of new MagPul furniture, flash hider that was removed when I replaced it with a YHM QD mount ... BSA red-dot ... who knows, but it still works, I've also got detachable front & rear sights that came off an AR57 upper I might end up using.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to see if it was worth the effort then, who knows ... I might put it up on Gunbroker just to see if it's worth selling ... The Preban receiver should be worth a bit of something to those that still live in Ban states ... On the other hand, it's a good reminder of what things used to be like during the last Clinton reign of terror on the 2nd Amendment.

 

[bannockburn]

Reloadron

My brother and I use to go in together on various gun purchases back in the day. Neither of us had enough cash to buy the gun outright so we would have shared custody for quite a number of years.

 

[bangswitch]

My home-built M4:
Mega upper and lower receiver
Rainier Special Match 16" barrel, polygonal rifling in 300 BLK
Wilson Combat adjustable gas block
Geissele DMR trigger group
Geissele Mark I rail
AAC flash suppressor
AIM NiB BCG
Magpul ACS buttstock
Magpul B.A.D. lever
Hogue pistol grip
Redfield Counterstrike 3 MOA red/green dot with centerline laser
Offset BUIS (don't remember brand)
BCM Gunfighter charging handle
Orion 500 lumen light