Having received the AR kit last night
I obviously didn’t get a good deal of sleep.
Actually that’s not true, I slept like a log, but I was up at five assembling.
sort of surprisingly, the whole deal is easy as hell to assemble, (Though I had to use all five hands to put the damned ejector in, and I shot it across the room twice requiring me to get on my knees and search in semidarkness for a part less than a half inch long and the diameter of a pinhead)
I haven’t wrung in the barrel yet, i’m gonna borrow a wrench and action block this afternoon. Otherwise, it’s together and looks like it will be fun to shoot. I also need to wring in the gas key bolts and stake them, but that’s a simple thing.
All told, it’s an M4gery with a detachable carry handle (I’ll be getting a Fakog to put on it someday) for $485

$485?!
Ditto. For that I might have more that one. Cash, mine was 200, but I traded a traded hand gun for the upper and figure that at 400, so 600 all together.
485 I would definited get another.
…and where are the pics??
Very nice :-)
Who’d ya get the barrel/BCG from? I am trying to put together an upper for that and am having no joy.
I wonder sometimes if I have a genetic abnormality. To me an AR type rifle is just slightly uglier than a pimply baboon’s ass. To me, the acme of gunworthy design and attractiveness is the M1 Carbine. I have one, and love it to death.
I’m right with you on the ugliness of the M16 and the attractiveness of the carbine, Gerry. But the M16/AR platform is hella fun to shoot!