Thread: Choosing Your First AR15

Originally Posted by scaggly

My suggestion would be to go buy an 18" NEA ($1999) or similar, spend $300 - $400 on a good match trigger, and put the rest into mounts ($200 or so) and glass (leaving you around $500 for glass).

The NEA barrels are great, they are free floated, and the main drawback really is the single stage mil trigger. Putting a good trigger into an AR makes for a whole different rifle. Standard triggers are ok, good triggers make it very hard to miss.

If you went this way, it should get you in under your $3k budget, depending on how spendy you want to get on the glass.

This is a good course of action.

Me personally, if I was starting out from scratch, it would be and E cat DD carbine, 4x32 ACOG TA01, ODL can, Geiselle trigger. Lookin at $5k+ though