Can you help a noob pick some parts? Please

[englertracing]

Hello,

ill first introduce myself,  Im aaron, im 26 years old, Ive been milling and lathing stuff since i was 13 years old,  I was taught to machine things the right way by a retired mold maker who was a major player in the manual era.  i'm into designing and building all kinds of things, but most often race car, motorcycle and bike parts.  (Really guns would be like hobby number 307) I have a Bridgeport and a lathe with plenty of tooling and i know how to use them! I have never built a gun of any type before, but i have machined some pretty intricate stuff, finishing a lower looks like cake. my normal forums are thumpertalk.com and speedtalk.com i am on there about ever other hour.

now that that is out of the way,

 

I'm here for a little help

I would like to do a 308 since everyone and their sister have at least two ar15's 

and everyone can appreciate a bigger bang! 

I would like to do an 308AR this style

carry handle wood stock and hand guard.....

because everyone has a tactical stuff these days, i find this calssy, just my style

I think i have sorted through the types ar10a ar10b, dpms, sr25 which on the net is pretty annoying, wish i could pick the stuff up and hold it!!!!!

I think i understand the differences

now ill get to the questions

I think i would like to use a genesis CNC upper and lower set

at least I think I do anyways??? DO I

1. Is there any reason not to use the genesis CNC set?

2. so for my toy (i like nice toys) can you recommend a trigger for me? I dont need to spend $$$$$ but i like nice stuff

I see they say it can use any dpms or ar barrels, this is confusing to me as i though they were incompatible

I would really like an 18" or even 16" barrel

3. would an armalite  part no B10A4C be a good choice?

3.5 should I look elsewhere for a barrel? If so Where?

4. will i be able to find wood furniture for this rifle?

5. how about freefloating wood handguard? Should i forget about that since I like the look of a traditional hand guard? or are the benefits enough that i should find a free floating wood hand guard if one exists

6. what about the carry handle and sights?

 

sorry for all the noob questions

any help appreciated

thanks,

AARON ENGLERT

 

 

 

 

[jtallen83]

Welcome from Iowa, via Pensacola!

For a trigger I would suggest you look at the LaRue MBT-2. Top quality for half the money of a Geissele. No experience with 80%'s so I'll let others chime in there.

[shepp]

Welcome to the forum from southern wi

[EngrBob]

For 80% .308 lowers I like both Daytona Tactical and M1 Machining.  Haven't tried the LaRue trigger but I do have a couple of Geissele G2S two stage triggers that are about the same price when on sale and like them very much.

[98Z5V]

11 hours ago, englertracing said:

4. will i be able to find wood furniture for this rifle?

5. how about freefloating wood handguard? Should i forget about that since I like the look of a traditional hand guard? or are the benefits enough that i should find a free floating wood hand guard if one exists

That looks alot like my Woody 5.56 NM build. 

I purchased my furniture from Precision Firearms, but I'm not sure if they are making it anymore - you should definitely contact them to find out. 

http://www.precisionfirearms.com/

Here's a link to a thread on the topic:

 

Here are more potential sources, if you can find the source of the pics:

http://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2016/02/03/pictures-great-looking-wooden-furniture-ars/

Freefloating it will be coming up soon - I've had an Armalite NM freefloat tube for several years, and the details of machining out the wood handguards to fit it will be happening sometime this year. 

[98Z5V]

Found the build thread on it:

 

[englertracing]

thanks for the replies so far,

i have seen the Precision firearms wood

i just found this last night 

http://woodforar.com/wood-grades/standard-grade-aa-walnut/aa-walnut-carbine-2/aa-carbine-inventory/

i like it, alot....

http://woodforar.com/wood-grades/standard-grade-aa-walnut/aa-walnut-rifle/aa-rifle-inventory/

aaa is to fancy a is plain

aa is juuuuuusssttt right

[SNKEBIT]

OHHHH  MMYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! 

[englertracing]

so far its looking like.....

genesis cnc lower

which takes a dpms style trigger and pmags, but armalite uppers

 LaRue MBT-2  trigger

and for the style i want, an ARMALITE AR10A2 CARBINE UPPER

but i cant find one!

i would imagine all the cool kids with armalite ar10a2s want the a4 upper recievers!

and the wood for ars walnut stock and hand guard

and id be set!!!

 

[englertracing]

i need a few more posts before i can post a wtb in the classifieds

[englertracing]

does anyone know of any a2 uppers sitting around?

[Rsquared]

Nope. Armalite stopped making the A2 upper for the AR-10's a couple years back.