Cheap AR?

[piston10]

What did my rifles cost? Heck, let's see...

I've got a RRA carbine, has a Vortex Sparc on it and a rifle-length YHM rail, a foregrip... Initially, I think I had about $850 in it a couple years ago. So now, figure something like $1100-1200.

Got a trio of Spikes carbines in pink, FDE and OD. The former two have Troy Alpha rails, Magpul BUIS, the OD I bought a Todd Jarrett rail for and FARGING LOST IT! UGH! And one has a Bushnell-branded Eotech, another couple hundred. MOE stuff on all of 'em. So, those... mmm... some of the parts were during the craze, prolly around $1200 in each of them total - averaged.

My varmint rifle is a Spike's with a Samson rail and a 24" Wilson bull barrel and a Vortex Crossfire II, NiB BCG, nicer stock and such. Maybe $1300-1400?

My 6.8 is an all Rock River I purchased complete for a good deal. Shipping, transfer fees AND 7 boxes of ammo - well under a grand. So that one is my "budget build" lol.

I wouldn't sell a single one for even what I have in them... prolly take another crazy craze to get me to sell, and if I did, I'd sell the cheapies I'm building now, not the ones above that I love.

You are doing what I'm talking about. You are buying better parts for a little more money. Looks like you are building nice rifles on a budget, not just building crap because it's cheap.

 

[tRidiot]

You are doing what I'm talking about. You are buying better parts for a little more money. Looks like you are building nice rifles on a budget, not just building crap because it's cheap.

True... even the new "bulk" rifles I am building I like to think have quality parts. Maybe inexpensive, but I'm not shooting 10k rounds per year, OR trying to get sub-MOA accuracy out of them. They'll all have free-float handguards, more than likely, but not going to be top-of-the-line stuff, either. FA carriers and Carpenter bolts are a must, but beyond that, I'm not super picky as long as it's quality stuff. I think the barrels on my 3 pretty guns are all 1:9 by Mossberg... I may swap those onto the bulk guns and get some nicer 1:7s on them. But mostly MOE stocks and grips for those, I'd assume. Oh, and trigger guards... I have a thing for trigger guards, lol. I don't know why. I put the Magpul winter trigger guards on most of them, but now I'm switching them out to the Seekins billet ones, because they look sweet as hell. All the new rifles have built-in trigger guards, so that helps save me $20 per.

Anyways... God I love to talk about guns... I gotta run, gotta get some ink injected!

 

[Nighthawk]

True... even the new "bulk" rifles I am building I like to think have quality parts. Maybe inexpensive, but I'm not shooting 10k rounds per year, OR trying to get sub-MOA accuracy out of them. They'll all have free-float handguards, more than likely, but not going to be top-of-the-line stuff, either. FA carriers and Carpenter bolts are a must, but beyond that, I'm not super picky as long as it's quality stuff. I think the barrels on my 3 pretty guns are all 1:9 by Mossberg... I may swap those onto the bulk guns and get some nicer 1:7s on them. But mostly MOE stocks and grips for those, I'd assume. Oh, and trigger guards... I have a thing for trigger guards, lol. I don't know why. I put the Magpul winter trigger guards on most of them, but now I'm switching them out to the Seekins billet ones, because they look sweet as hell. All the new rifles have built-in trigger guards, so that helps save me $20 per.

Anyways... God I love to talk about guns... I gotta run, gotta get some ink injected!

I am just wondering, How many rifles do you build a year, I could be reading this wrong, but it sounds like a lot.

 

[Hump66]

What's wrong with building a lot of rifles?

 

[Nighthawk]

Hump66, Did someone say it was wrong to build a lot of rifles? I did not see it anywhere.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

I am just wondering, How many rifles do you build a year, I could be reading this wrong, but it sounds like a lot.

He has his own keys to FBT....lol

 

[93 FOX]

X2 BCM exceeds milspec on their parts.

Fixed it for ya.

 

[Nighthawk]

He has his own keys to FBT....lol

Keys to the candy store, thats cool.

 

[underpar]

No disrespect to BCM, I have a couple of their BCG's in my weapons. Just saying that you can get an equivalent barrel, their BCG, a comparable upper & lower, and a crisp trigger for a couple hundred bucks cheaper that buying a complete BCM rifle. Sure, a "franken gun" but an equivalent rifle just missing a rollmark!

For those of you out their who don't know this, you can actually build a better rifle by using the best of multiple manufacturers than you can by buying a rifle from one manufacturer.

 

[93 FOX]

No disrespect to BCM, I have a couple of their BCG's in my weapons. Just saying that you can get an equivalent barrel, their BCG, a comparable upper & lower, and a crisp trigger for a couple hundred bucks cheaper that buying a complete BCM rifle. Sure, a "franken gun" but an equivalent rifle just missing a rollmark!

For those of you out their who don't know this, you can actually build a better rifle by using the best of multiple manufacturers than you can by buying a rifle from one manufacturer.

And build exactly what you want.