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crap, I typed out a long response on my phone, but apparently it didn't post. You can, particularly if you are patient, and don't mind blemishes. I mean a blem lower, upper + bcg can end up as little as $175 all together, and most blems I've seen I can't spot the blemish. get one of the crappy plain M4 stocks with buffer tube/buffer/spring for as low as $30 on some sales, a LPK for $50 puts you at 255. all that's left is barrel for 110, barrel nut, delta rings and plain handguard for around $50 altogether and you have a basic AR15 for just a little over $400. But its a plain jane, nothing exciting rifle. What makes these fun is they are the lego sets of rifles :D

that's the new York/California/CT/MD version?

so far my only fail is $ wise, until/unless I get a Christmas bonus I don't have anything to spend on the kids, and they are a rotten bunch of spoiled brats from prior years. They'll survive. Worst comes to worse, i'll just get them Bush Gardens annual passes, that Bush will let you pay $13 a month on each

I'd try and do some cold weather training, but its 81 here today. >:D

they are pretty, its the first ones I've liked since 1972. Do they still allow those high output cars with large capacity engines in CT ?

I would surrender to that north korean

In a totally not homo way, I love you. I was hunting for these on weapons guild this weekend, and couldn't find them!

Welcome from central Florida here too.

and that pretty much is what I'd expect :) but run it dry in an anodized upper? I wouldn't.

DPMS

if all surfaces were coated with them, you can get by with virtually no lubricant after break in. The 2 major problems are break in, and that the other surfaces of the upper and lower receivers aren't usually coated. The thing is, you can give these a light wipedown with lubricant instead of the soaking wet deal and be fine. Just totally dry doesn't work out that well. Now if I could find a steel upper and lower receiver, I'd get them both black nitrided and then i'd be confident throwing a black nitride BCG in with no lube, and not be concerned. actually if the upper and lower was done with NiB too it might be ok, but I haven't seen uppers or lowers coated with it either.

its probably an armalite thing ;) I've got the solution though. Max out all your credit cards and stay so broke you can't afford anything. That will teach the gun store a lesson.

So here's the deal, some idiot bought this, installed it with 0 lube, had failure to feed/eject over a couple of bullets and sent it back since we have a 100% money back guarantee. The blemishes are ONLY from him firing it dry, not manufacturing blemishes. I took pictures, but honestly its very hard to see at all. $200 shipped, our normal price is $236 plus shipping. I was keeping this one to build a separate 338 federal rifle, but i'm so tapped out financially that's not happening till at least july I figure, and I could use the $ for Christmas shopping.

I really really really want one, but I probably should get the eotech first instead of my crappy Chinese knockoff. What I've always wondered is if the center dot is 3-4 MOA to begin with, doesn't it become a 9-12MOA dot with 3x magnification? seems to me to partially defeat the purpose. That in no way reduces its cool factor though.

agreed, that one is perfect as it is, anything changed is just going downhill on it.

I know a few guys building 22 caliber gatling guns. that would be fun with tracers mixed in

you know, i'd honestly be more interested in one that was exactly like this, but did the cam bit and limited it to 3 shot bursts. that would rock in the 308 :)

oh geez, that reminds me of the cigarette loads you could stuff into someone's cigarette while they weren't looking and it was just enough to blow the cigarette apart. that and flash paper. fun stuff

we built ours so it was the right inside diameter to use tennis balls with too, doused in lighter fluid

nothing gun related. a new laptop backpack that was free for attending a microsoft/Nokia programming event, and a set of 30,000k xenon HID lights plus dodge specific ballasts for my Nitro

Nice!

I'm sure nowadays you'd get arrested as a terrorist for having WMDs. Weapons of Mashed Destruction.

in the early 80s, our potato guns were PVC, with gas grill spark lighters installed as the firing mechanism, and moms hair spray for propellant :)

damn, that's not bad, but unless my Christmas bonus comes today, I don't have the $$

you know, I still see the plastic cap rings for sale, but never see the actual pistol for sale anymore. I want to buy one for my 5 year old :D