Good advise too. When ordered my one (ASI Ultra-match) I ''up sized my combo'' to include the best of everything i could buy at the time. I ended up with titanium bits and bobs and match BCG, Douglas match barrel, tight true .223 chamber and a match trigger etc etc.... and at the time it was only about $500 more than getting a bog standard AR. Much cheaper to just buy it right first time rather than pay for every part twice.
kj
Edit: Oh - one maistake I did make was to get a varmint profiled barrel (0.92'' straight barrel). Even with the flutes, it still put the overall weight (rifle,scope,suppressor) above 10lb!!!! So I sent it to Robbie Tiffan who cut 4'' off the barrel and machined it down to shed about 3lb's off its weight. It did loose a little accuracy (from a stunning 0.25MOA to 0.60MOA) but who cares, as it is now very useable.
Last edited by kimjon; 02-10-2012 at 09:25 AM.
My tip would be to work out what the purpose of the AR will be and build it to suit. Remember you can have 1 AR15 lower and heaps of uppers to suit whatever you are up to.
My AR's
Tactical/general purpose AR - 223 Wylde, 16" Heavy barrel, free floated quad rail, 1-4x scope, Mid length gas
Light Weight Deer hunting AR - 6.8SPC, 16" recon weight barrel, 2-10x scope, Mid length gas
Light weight Plinker/hunter AR - 5.56 NATO, 14.5" Light weight barrel, Mid length gas
Suppressed Piston AR - 5.56 NATO, 14.5" Heavy barrel, carbine Length Adam Arms Piston system, Hardy AR suppressor
Just having a look around lots of choices, still lots of questions , thoughts on this one ?
DPMS Panther RFA2-LPC AR15 223 Remington
Bottom of the barrel DPMS model. DPMS is generally considered a low end brand, but as I have said like 1000000000000000000000 times, a bottom of the barrel US made AR will do what 99% of Kiwi shooters want to do. It's also way over priced for what it is.
Thanks Beavis, that low flat looking config is what I had in mind, I will keep me peepers open for others
Grouchy Smurf had it right all along...
Mossberg bolt action will do whatever any nz hunter wants, plenty of people with Sakos, Wby MKVs, etc though. I don't understand why people are so against the idea of buying a premium quality AR. I guess it's harder to see the differences and less people 'know' things about them
While I might not be as good as I once was, Im as good once as I ever was!
Rule 4: Identify your target beyond all doubt
You can fire just one shot from a semi auto, too.
So can anyone point an off the shelf ar15 to start off with ? Would use it for goaties. Any links on nz websites ?
Highest quality you can find Spanners posted a list of good to bad ARs it's on here go find it. I purchased a used STI and it Awsome. IE shoots heads off myna birds at 70 + mtrs all the time so accurate as has aftermarket trigger + suppreesor Since then I'd say I have not seen a used one of any brand that looks as good. Maybe ask one of the guys to bring you one in I'd PM Spanners and ask him if I was looking now ..
"This is my Flag... Ill only have the one ..
I'm not against premium quality AR's but they are rare as rocking horse shit
Yeah in Nz. Hah everywhere at the moment, I guess
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