AR-15 BS Thread

Pretty new to the whole AR thing but I'm building one right now.

All I'm waiting on is my gas block and gas tube from spike tactical

 

Better not get caught with anything more than a 10 round mag in Commiefornia.

 

To me, "all purpose" means you don't want a heavy ass bench gun, so it needs to be a little lighter yet you want precision.

I'd recommend going down to a 16" recon style barrel with a mid gas system. 2" less than an 18" barrel equals about half a pound out front. If it will be your only rifle, I'd splurge a little on quality. I normally prefer 1:7 barrels, however in this instance a 1:8 twist would fall in the "all purpose" category. M4 ramps, Wylde chamber.
http://www.compasslake.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4_31&products_id=223

 

Yes they are. 2 10/20's and 1 10/30

 

Why buy 20 rd mags, that only hold 10 rds?

 

I live in Gay California haha. I personally don't like the look of the 10 round mags. So I bought the larger ones with the limiter inside

 

Plus the 10 rounders don't fit in most mag holders and tacti-cool gear very well and are more cumbersom to handle when doing mag exchanges..

 

I like these a lot. I also have one of their 18" stainless bbl's that's tits, but they don't last as long as this one. http://www.spikestactical.com/st-co...0.html?zenid=ddea1b8160d6d737bb0f2a3a070d66c8

 

Yeah, because speed is a concern, when your mags have to be fixed to be CA compliant.

 

Not true, neutered rifles can have removable mags. It was my experience that Californians largely ignore all of the laws anyway, and just go way out in the desert to shoot. I know I did when I lived there.

 

Not that I don't believe you, but I've just never heard that. Yeah, I miss Stoddard wells

 

Easy way around the bullet button?

 

So I want to buy a pistol upper to go with the pistol lower I'm building, I know I'm gonna end up with a 12.5" 6.8 SPC upper eventually, and a 5.56 (unknown lengthy barrel) upper, which should I do first?

I already have a 16" 6.8 upper that I use for hunting, and a 16" 5.56 that's my plinking/GD upper.

 

Brett is who I got my 16" 6.8 barrel from (along with a few other parts), great service.

From everything I read 12.5" is the way to go for the 6.8 in a SBR form, but I don't know anything about the 556 SBR barrels, doing research on them now and it seems that 11.5-12.5 is a good compromise of velocity, parts wear, length, and suppressor wear (When I get one).

 

Or just, you know....live in a free state

 

10 round mags for .458 socom?

 

Well when the shopping was all done this evening I ended up with everything but and optic and a lower (both of which I have).
7" pistol upper with a M-lock rail
Pistol buffer kit
LPK with MOE grip (may change the grip out for a BCM mod1 or similar straight angle grip
BCG and CH
Put it all together around my stripped lower and slap my cheap red dot on it and I think I'll have my latest "truck gun"

Edit: Keymod rail, not M-lok

 

Having a 10 round 458 socom mag is perfectly fine in CA. However, you have to have purchased it as a 458 socom mag. So buying a regular pmag marked 556 will not work. Has to be a 458 socom marked magazine basically.

It was a ruling in CA that basically if you owned a magazine in a caliber that was legal, the fact it could hold more than the legal amount of a sub caliber doesnt matter. The original ruling i believe was a 40S&W mag that could hold 11-12 9mm or something like that.



one another note...i got my Geissele DMR trigger installed. Not totally sure how i feel about it quite yet. Im comparing it to a SSA-E mind you. But without playing with the settings so far all it seems difference wise is a shorter trigger pull. Both stages feel about the same pull weight right now. Ill play around with it a bit more settings wise though.