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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:46:48 PM EDT
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Rock River 16” with a heavy ass quad rail
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:47:32 PM EDT
[#2]
CMMG Bargain Bin -- these were parts guns. My particular one was built on a Doublestar lower with TAPCO furniture (SAW grip, civilianized M4 waffle stock, CAR handguards). Upper was one of their WASP (nitrided) 16" M4 profile barrels. It's still trouble free and allowed me to experiment with bits and bobs before I started assembling others.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:49:51 PM EDT
[#3]
LWRC m6a2 bullet hose with a NF 1-4. Still have the lower
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:52:00 PM EDT
[#4]
2004 AR15.com SEBR.
What do I win? |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:53:46 PM EDT
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Bought maybe 2017? Had no idea what I was buying; just knew I had to have an AR.
Paid $350. Came with the Ebay Reflex and fake Mbus that were so bad, you couldn't move the elevation down far enough to put a round on paper @ 50 yards. Plum Crazy Gen 2. The LGS I bough it from said poly lowers would be the future! Yeah, no. Many AR's later, and after essentially shooing out the phosphate unlined Brownell's upper/barrel out, I replaced the barrel with another cheap barrel and handguard, and switched to at least an Anderson lower.  Attached File Attached FileIt's an OK rifle now; still cheap but it's plenty accurate and the back won't fall off. Also installed some real Magpul Mbus. The only original parts from that gun are the BCG and the upper. Everything else has been swapped. The plastic lower is sitting in a drawer where it will stay. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:56:51 PM EDT
[#6]
My 1st one is the one on top, colt ar15-A2, had a green label box, got it at a gun show, joined ARF shortly thereafter in 2000
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Posted: 1/24/2022 8:58:51 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. But the first I actually paid for: A Compass Lake Engineering A2, 20" NRA High Power. m ETA: That rifle, and my second, a White Oak Precision A2, also a High Power have both been converted to scoped flat tops. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:00:23 PM EDT
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My first, Colt 16 inch sporter lightweight A2. My buddy Dave bought it for me sometime around 1994ish.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:01:02 PM EDT
[#9]
Preban Colt Light Weight Sporter.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:01:05 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Wow ... me too! I got some clothes and boots, did you??? |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:01:07 PM EDT
[#11]
Stag 3G
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:02:18 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow ... me too! I got some clothes and boots, did you??? And some sexy glasses. 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:03:20 PM EDT
[#13]
My first AR was an Olympic Arms Matchmaster chambered in 6mm PPC.
Tony Rumore Tromix |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:04:44 PM EDT
[#14]
Olympic Arms with non removable handle and gross Glacier guard forearm . Lived like that for a couple years till the makeover . Flattop upper , heavy ass quad rail , 20" heavy barrel . You know the early 2000s
 . Still have the Lower although it's now a SBR .
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:07:16 PM EDT
[#15]
Bought my first AR when I was in the Army stationed in Hawaii, right alongside my first Glock. The AR was an A2 HBAR Colt and I loved that thing. Accurate as hell.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:09:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Except 3 round burst A2.First civilian AR was a Bushie XM15-E2S |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:10:37 PM EDT
[#17]
2011 from a retired cop. Double star ar15. Said he got it when his dept made a purchase. Was never shot. Paid $550 for it.
Still have it. Built an SPR and an AR10 since then. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:17:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow ... me too! I got some clothes and boots, did you??? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Wow ... me too! I got some clothes and boots, did you??? Edit Bushmaster post-ban lower, A2 Upper 1/9, and Colt A2 butt stock. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:18:08 PM EDT
[#19]
Windham Weaponry 16” carbine with a railed front gas block
 I paid Sandy Hook panic prices for it, so I’ll never sell it because I’d take a big loss
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:18:40 PM EDT
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Won it at an essay contest here in GD almost 20 years ago. It was a Frankengun built from donated parts. It was kind of an oddball, but it ran great and a good starter gun for a kid.
Socom mfg billet lower, Kurt's Kustom side charging upper (left side reciprocating). Detachable carry handle and standard fsb (as was common at the time). 16 "Olympic (back when they were good) Hbar, carbine gas. Knights RIS and vfg . A2 stock, which was great for me as I was in the process of passing 6 foot at the time. The ban era Oly brake was a real tooth rattler, so I pulled it off, but other than that a decent little rifle. Eta: Haven't thought about that rifle in a long time. It's funny how the vfg was so ubiquitous and freefloats were barely even a thing outside of competition guns. Picatinny was the hotness and the RIS was considered pretty blingy at the time. It was OD and black cerakote and it always turned heads at the range back when ARs were still somewhat of a rarity. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:18:58 PM EDT
[#21]
Colt match target HBAR in 1993. Still have it.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:19:09 PM EDT
[#22]
Colt Match Target Competition HBAR II. Saved up from a summer job back in the mid-90's.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:19:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Same |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:20:02 PM EDT
[#24]
Ban era Bushmaster. Sold it when I enlisted in the Army. It traded hands a few times then got stolen. Turned up in a crime in Texas where somebody died. Never got the details but it was implied the perp was the dead one. AFT agent doing the trace called me, all he wanted to know about was the stock and bayonet lug. Guess the configuration got changed along the way. He didn’t seem amused when I asked if the perp tried to bayonet someone.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:20:25 PM EDT
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Eagle Arms CAR bought in 1989 just outside of FT. Knox. Complete POS that would double every once in a while.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:25:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Eagle Arms CAR bought in 1989 just outside of FT. Knox. Complete POS that would double every once in a while. A guy I knew had an old Olympic Arms AR whose lower wouldn't fit any standard upper. Hammer pin hole was egged out on one side, so every now and then the trigger was binary. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:27:15 PM EDT
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LMT 14.5" from 2010. 100% reliable with any ammo. The upper has been used on an M16 lower. A shit load of rounds have been fired through it. It's still my main 5.56 rifle.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:27:39 PM EDT
[#28]
Bushmaster 20" HBAR, post ban with the nekkid target crown muzzle and a 10 round mag. I paid a little over a grand for that rifle around 2002 or '03 I think.
My friends and I beat that rifle like it owed us money. This was back in the glory days, buying 500 round cans of Georgia Arms XM193 at the gun show for like $80 or something ridiculous like that. That thing ran like a house afire too, it didn't miss a beat, it was a really good upper. I sold the upper when I decided I wanted to mess around shooting high power. I still have the lower. I want to do something special with it but I haven't decided what yet. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:31:09 PM EDT
[#29]
Mine was a 16” M4gery kit build from Delton that I bought for $375 back in 2006 and which I still have. Has about 10,000 rounds through it trouble free. Just now replaced the extractor spring finally.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:34:27 PM EDT
[#30]
Built my first lower in the front seat of my buddies Chevy pickup 2 days after I got back from Iraq. I was a little nervous the first time I took it to the range, but it worked.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:34:58 PM EDT
[#31]
First: Daniel Defense 18" pro
Second: Kac Sr15 |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:35:11 PM EDT
[#32]
SR15
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:37:56 PM EDT
[#33]
Colt SP-1 Carbine, bought new in 1982. Converted to full-auto on a Form 1, in 1983. Sold the SP-1 upper and replaced it with a 603 upper w/Bushy 11.5" barrel with 1/7 twist, in the early 1990's.
Still own it and no plans to ever sell it. Have owned and built many AR's since then, four in the last year alone.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:41:26 PM EDT
[#34]
 Attached File1978 Colt SP1, bought it when I got back from my second deployment in 2007 paid $800 for it One of my dad's friends who was a retired Maryland Army Guard Master Sergeant hooked me up with a bunch of 20rd GI mags and a few 30rd mags.. black follower Sanchez and Okays That rifle and Jim's mags started the obsession with the 20in AR |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:44:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. I took the Army up on that bargain bundle myself. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:46:03 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Colt SP-1 Carbine, bought new in 1982. Converted to full-auto on a Form 1, in 1983. Sold the SP-1 upper and replaced it with a 603 upper w/Bushy 11.5" barrel with 1/7 twist, in the early 1990's. Still own it and no plans to ever sell it. Have owned and built many AR's since then, four in the last year alone. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/52988/ColtSP1_JPG-2253441.JPG Badass. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:46:13 PM EDT
[#37]
PWA Commando. Overpaid early in the ban years. Still have the lower somewhere.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:51:11 PM EDT
[#38]
A Bushmaster carbine (pronoun: it) in the mid-nineties. I never did bond with it, sold it around 2010.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:52:17 PM EDT
[#39]
Colt sp1
YUGE Mistake in selling it YUGE |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:53:35 PM EDT
[#40]
A ruger ar556 in gray cerakote. Bought it just before the 2016 election when I was 18, and it was almost every cent I owned. Now I’m up to six completes, but lots of lowers too.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:56:21 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bushmaster 16" ban model, purchased around 1999 or 2000. Same as me. I was the first of my shooting buddies to have an AR. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:58:21 PM EDT
[#42]
I built this in 2007 using a BCM assembled upper
 It's evolved over the years as I figured out what I did and didn't like, this is the current configuration 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 9:59:33 PM EDT
[#43]
Bushmaster XM15 E2S.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:00:23 PM EDT
[#44]
Bushmaster 24 inch Varminter, with 1:9 twist barrel.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:01:22 PM EDT
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I still have it, it is still probably my most accurate AR - but it was back in the ban days - so no flash suppressor, muzzle break or carry handle. Rock River Varmint rifle. With the shitty optics I have on it, it is still 13lbs.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:02:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 2007 RRA Entry Tactical Was a great gun but heavy. (Snip). Same gun, same year, and same impression. I put a RRA Midlength on it and shot it for a bit. Then had the barrel reprofiled and cut and pinned to 16". That one stayed that way for awhile while building several other Ars in different configs. Sold it during a panick for a crazy amount. I hadn't shot it over 2yrs. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:04:38 PM EDT
[#47]
Around 1999 Bushmaster M4 Carry handle Carbine 14.5 pin and weld, has that purplish hue anodizing.
Light weight and easy to handle, run like a top too. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:05:41 PM EDT
[#48]
My first ar was a bushmaster xm15 patrolman that my mom bought me just before I graduated high school I still have it in it’s original set up. The first one that I bought for myself was a colt 6920 that I still wish I kept.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:06:28 PM EDT
[#49]
Ugly ass 16" Bushmaster flat top. With a fixed front sight. The fore grip was basically an aluminum pipe that was checkered. It wasn't really a bad rifle it was just kinda heavy. 2nd was a Bushmaster Predator with a fluted barrel. Now that is one gun I regret sell. Maybe I got lucky but that rifle was incredibly accurate.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:06:33 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A Bushmaster carbine (pronoun: it) in the mid-nineties. I never did bond with it, sold it around 2010. Do you still have an AR, @PlaneJane ? |
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