BadBoyBilly

great info so far!

All my rifle builds (AR15's) in the past were built using non magnified red dots. I got tons of experience with Red Dots but little to no experience with rifle scopes. Gun clubs in my area range from 100 yards to 300 yards. Basically what I'm trying to say is I'm not going to be shooting anything over 300 yards. Was hoping you guys could help me narrow down my choices for a scope: 1) Fixed or Variable? I'm leaning towards variable because there are a bunch of ranges around me with varying distance. Like the idea of dialing up/down the magnification for when I need it 2) Magnification power? 100 yards is the most common distance around me. There's one that's 200 and another with a 300 yard range. Taking and educated guess, I'm thinking 10X and below would be appropriate for me. 3) Best bang for your buck scope? I'm not looking to spend $1000 on a scope but at the same time I don't want a cheap $100 rifle scope that is a piece of crap. I've been eyeing the Vortex Optics Viper PST 2.5-10x44mm EBR-1 MOA scope. Basically a $600 scope. Probably could get it a little cheaper using some online codes. Was curious to know if there are other scopes I should check out that are in the $300-400ish price range of similar quality/specs as the Vortex?

Ha. Funny you mention that, my serial # is under 100. I was like woah.

What's funny is a couple hours after I placed my order for the Rainier receiver, I noticed it went out of stock on their website. I think I was the guy who bought the last one! You snooze you lose!!!

Nice choice on the receiver. I went with the same one for my build.

Well it's a start

I look at it this way, buying firearms is an investment. I'd rather dump my money into firearms/ammo than the stock market!!!! When the world ends, all that is going to matter is water, food, shelter, precious metals and guns/ammo!

Heads up, the receiver sets are back in stock and are $288!!!

So I just bought my second .308 AR receiver set! I just so happened to be on Aero Precision's website again just out of curiosity. They had the black M5 receiver set in stock again and on top of it, it was on sale. Instead of $320, it was $288 plus free shipping. Looks like I'm going to be broke building out 2 .308 AR's over the winter!!!!!

I got to say, the machining on the BCG is very impressive. Probably one of the cleanest looking BCG's I've held in my hand.

Just got my Fulton Armory BCG. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I just purchased the Fulton Armory BCG for my build. They are 10% off right now but ends on Halloween.

Cool man! Thanks for the warm welcome.

What's funny is I grew up next to Boston for 25+ years and I used to consider 495 "west" like most Easterners. it wasn't until I started riding that my idea of "Western Mass" shifted out further west. You have to get past Worcester to find the good roads. I do know of some inside 495 but not many. Near 128 and inside I avoid like the plague.

When I say Western Mass I'm referring to the section of the state that is west of the Quabbin Reservoir. Couple weeks ago we did a Mohawk trail run, went up into VT on RT 7 and then went to Mt Greylock.

I do a lot of motorcycle riding out in Western Mass (my other hobby). I have to say, it's a whole other world out there. The closer you get to Boston the more commie it gets! I'm in the Metro West area so there are some towns that are ok and some that are commie. Well I ended up buying the Fulton Armory BCG last night. Was on sale and it was in stock. I said F it, better do it now while it's in stock because once it goes out of stock it will be out of stock for 6 months. What was odd was that there was barely any details on the BCG itself. On the main page of this site under the parts section I did see a description that it was a DPMS based BCG which is what I was trying to confirm.

Mass is up there but we don't have it the worst in the nation....... ^-^

Massachusetts is where Freedom began and also ENDED!!!! I consider it one of the "Commie States". I saw Nemo barrels mentioned in my travels on this forum. I'll take a look.

Google search for .308 AR info. This site was the top response.

Sup guys, Been a long time firearms enthusiast. Built a bunch of AR's but I've always had an itch to someday build a .308 AR (the way that I want it). Seems like this year alone a lot of companies are now selling/offering .308 AR rifles and parts. Because of the ease and availability of .308 AR parts now, I've decided to do something about the itch finally! I ended up finding this site via Google searches when I started researching .308 ARs. My journey started when Aero Precision recently came out with a VERY affordable .308 AR receiver set but what I wanted has been out of stock and god knows when it will be back in stock. I was also a little iffy about going that route since there's no track record yet since it's a new product offered by them. Started looking at the Mega Arms receiver set since they seem to be extremely popular on here but then I caught wind of the Rainier Arms .308 AR receiver set. Something about that receiver set gave me butterflies in my stomach. Couldn't really find anything bad online about the receiver set and I know Rainier Arms is a highly respected company in the firearms industry so I pulled the trigger on the Rainier Arms receiver set. It's on its way to my FFL!!! Been on this forum quite a bit over the past couple weeks learning the ways of the .308 AR. Figured it probably made sense to join the forum and stop being a troll. I pretty much have build list put together with the exception of the barrel. I'm being extremely picky about it....... Here's what I'm trying to find: 18" Rifle Length Gas System 1x10 Medium Contour Nitride Finish (inside and out) Dimpled for proper gas block position (I'm a set screw kind of guy and like having the dimple for proper positioning) Closest I could find that meets all of these picky requirements was a Brownells barrel but the gas system is mid length. Anyone know of any barrels that have all the above requirements? If not I'll probably settle for the Brownells one......