Hello everyone

[pnutty]

Hi everyone, new to the 308ar world. A bit of backstory on myself is that I bought a m5 lower right before covid and then life happened, years later going through the safe I found it in the original box and figured it was time to finish it.
I start researching for parts and come to find out that Aero no longer makes parts or the company is shut down, so here I am thinking I have nothing more than a paperweight now. Luckily a friend turned me onto a local shop I never heard of but I give it a shot, low and behold he actually has a m5 upper hiding away somewhere in the shop and even though it's a different color than the lower, I am still ecstatic to at least have a matching receiver set. After getting that sorted, I set out to actually finish this build but had many questions as their is no milspec/standardization compared to the ar15. I happened across this site while researching and realized and their is a TON of knowledge here, with very helpful members so I joined. Hopefully after a few years of sticking around and learning I can start helping other members as well. 

[Armed Eye Doc]

Welcome to the forum.

37 minutes ago, pnutty said:

Hopefully after a few years of sticking around and learning I can start helping other members as well.

That is how most of us have developed.

[98Z5V]

Welcome aboard, man!  If you're sitting on Aero M5 receivers,  we can make everything else work.  Not a problem. 

Fire off questions anytime you have them - someone will answer.  

[shooterrex]

Welcome from Ky

[Magwa]

Yes welcome here you will find the cure to what ails your gun....

[Cunuckgaucho]

Welcome from BC

As @Magwa pointed out someone here will have the cure for your rifle, your wallet on the other hand is a whole other story.

[pnutty]

10 hours ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

Welcome from BC

As @Magwa pointed out someone here will have the cure for your rifle, your wallet on the other hand is a whole other story.

The more I visit this site, the lighter my wallet gets🤣

[shooterrex]

yep seems to happen to everyone. 

[Rsquared]

Welcome aboard from the peoples republic of Marylandstan. The light wallet is a by-product of the enablers around here.

Thank god I've never been one of them. 

[pnutty]

23 hours ago, Rsquared said:

Welcome aboard from the peoples republic of Marylandstan. The light wallet is a by-product of the enablers around here.

Thank god I've never been one of them. 

Hello from another ban state dweller as well ,as I am in the peoples republic of NY. Just curious how you made yours "compliant" as in Ny, the most common thing to do is pin the mag which is what I did.

[98Z5V]

5 hours ago, pnutty said:

as I am in the peoples republic of NY.

Oh, Shiit!  That sucks, man, but we can work through it.

[Rsquared]

10 hours ago, pnutty said:

Just curious how you made yours "compliant" as in Ny, the most common thing to do is pin the mag which is what I did.

All of my stuff, at least what wasn't lost in the great boating accident, was built prior to a lot of the state nonsense that resides around here these days. But a lot of it was also done using the ATF 'Form 1' NFA method.