Stormwolf

Welcome aboard, I just joined myself today too. I have one of the DPMS GEN2 .308's, and I like it a lot, but as mentioned elsewhere here it doesn't have much aftermarket support yet. Mine is a MAGPUL MOE variant so at least for it there are Magpul stocks, handgrips, and front handguards available for them. My biggest disappointment so far, being left handed, is that there are no ambidextrous charging handles available for it. The bolt carrier group is a completely different design as well, specific to the Gen2 family. I will say it does a great job ejecting spent brass with the dual ejector pins on the bolt face. I still may move to the 308 Ruger with the gas piston setup, it seems to have been really well received so far.

Thanks fellas, been reading some trying to get my bearings, lol.

Hello all, glad to be here. I am a Marine Veteran, although for full disclosure I should say that I worked on aviation generators and ground support equipment, and was not a "grunt". I always really enjoyed my time on the range though, and last year I got back into shooting after way too long away. I bought an AR15 a year ago last summer, then early this year we had a new Cabela's store open in Greenville SC, and I saw they had a grand opening sale including the newly redesigned 16" DPMS Gen2 Magpul MOE edition, so I broke down and purchased after reading about the close similarities with the AR15 dimensions. Since then I have realized that a lot of the nice ambidextrous aftermarket parts are not yet available for these, so I may transition to something different. Since then I have acquired reloading equipment, more to gain another set of useful skills than to save money, and hopefully also to tailor ammo to the requirements of a .308 carbine length gas rifle.