Being a guy
I tend to like toys. I like to get them, take them home, and play with them.
The day I finally got my double rifle, I was engrossed for nearly ten solid hours. I had been expecting it for three weeks so I already had snapcaps etc.
When I got my K-31, I spent the better part of an evening just balancing it.
hell, when I bought my Winchester 94, lo these thirty-odd years ago, I spent a whole goddamned week thinking i was the Duke.
Now I have an AR-15 The lower half of an AR-15 A piece of a rifle.
I can’t cycle the action because, well, it doesn’t have one. I can’t test the trigger pull, because it has none. I can’t hold it up to the Willow in the backyard (My favorite inanimate target) and sight along the barrel, because… you guessed it, it has none. Shit I can’t even grip it because it doesn’t even have a grip!
I know this is just the beginning and I will have lots of time to watch it grow, but it’s a bit like deciding you want an erector set and just getting one of the long pieces. You can envision the bridge that you’re going to eventually build with it, but it’s just a piece, for now.
Soon.
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It was interesting that when I bought a stripped lower at a Calif. gun shop I had to put a lock on it before taking it out the door. Because it’s the only part with a serial nr., it is the rifle. Also I had to wait 10 days after purchasing it to pick it up (so I could “cool down” before I went out and killed someone with it). All the rest of the parts I ordered by mail. That’s one of the reasons I’m soon moving to America (Arizona).
I still hold my stripped lower up now and again and sight in the imaginary barrel, nestle the imaginary stock into my shoulder.
One of these days, Ima gonna build that thing…
One day, I will have to do this.
Well, I can at least pull the trigger on mine…
I’m doing my AR build the same way Johnny Cash built that Cadillac, one piece at a time. (It did cost me a dime, however)
So far I’ve got the lower parts kit & grip installed and the stock attached.
I’m still debating to go with a pre-built upper, or to keep buying each component separately. I’m running into a lot of “SOLD OUT” or “ON BACKORDER” problems, though.
“…just getting one of the long pieces.”
I Lol’d at that.
When I was a yute (~50 years ago, now), I became aware of the Erector Set. I hinted REAL hard about the big one with which you could build an entire city, kinda.
One of my aunts got me the little one that would build a tiny bridge.
Bummer.
The best part is, you now have the only piece of the gun you had to buy in person.
The rest of it can be sitting in boxes on your porch, waiting for you to get home.
I assume that, like here at Roseholme, there’s a dog-eared Brownells catalog in the reading room?
I have two women in the house. I dare not tarry in the rain room.
On the other hand, brownells, cabelas, numrich, ctd, and even some old herters are on the nightstand.
once complete you will find it was well worth the wait.
Plz 2 4giving my iggerance but, you have a rifle with no “action” (?), no trigger, no barrel and no grip (stock?).
Just what do you have?
An AR-15 lower, stripped
…a piece of metal with a serial number stamped on it. To our government, this is a “firearm”. 9_9
I’ve seen where you can buy a stamping which, when you bend it appropriately, can be used as an AK lower, speaking of “…a piece of metal with a serial number stamped on it.”
Dammit Og, now you’ve started it.
My wife will not be happy…if she finds out.