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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:07:58 PM EDT
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Colt 6520. Bought it 1990ish for $200. Still remember the hardware store had stainless folding Ruger mini 14’s for $179.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:08:32 PM EDT
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Bushmaster Varminter, 2003. Still have it. Still pretty damn accurate. But being so long and heavy, doesn't see much use aside from bench shooting.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:09:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. My first ar was an M4 Carbine but the haircut was not free. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:09:36 PM EDT
[#4]
Colt SP1 no assist.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:12:09 PM EDT
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Brand new M16A2 with haircut, clothes, and training.
Ah, 17 in the summer of '92 at Ft. Knox... Not really mine, though. Bought a S&W stripped lower that I never built about '08 then sold to a friend. '13 I went to work at an 07/02 and all hell broke loose. Have more than I can remember and have built or customized more than I can count. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:12:42 PM EDT
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Bought this in 2009
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:13:09 PM EDT
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Bushy post ban 16” hbar
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:14:33 PM EDT
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American Spirit Arms A1 with fixed stock..............Still have it, will die before I get rid of it
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:16:45 PM EDT
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Del-Ton 20" kit on a cheap lower. I remember upgrading to a YHM quad rail thinking it was the greatest thing in the world.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:17:20 PM EDT
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My first AR was a Colt Sporter HBar 20 inch back in 1991. Shot a couple of Colt Cup matches with it and got fed up with the whole high power scene. Soon found action shooting at a local club and bought a 14.5 inch Bushy with the AK74 style brake. Still have both although tempted to sell the Colt since it's a pre ban. Wife won't let me!
 I've built all my ARs since. At least 25! I've run out of ideas for builds.... |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:21:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Fuck I think I had to pay $2.00 for that first haircut. I know for the next 12 weeks I paid $2.00. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:24:31 PM EDT
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Maine-era Bushmaster Dissipator late 90s, factory build. Back when you could go through the Bushmaster catalog and submit an order for an AR built to your specs.
Submitted the order, Bushmaster kept contacting me to advise that one or another feature I'd included in the order would put the rifle months down the completion date where I could expect delivery. I needed the rifle for a class I was scheduled to attend so I told the sales rep to cut the order down to include whatever parts they actually had in stock and push the order out the door to me. Still have the rifle. Carried it as my duty rifle for my village PD jobs for about fifteen years before I replaced it with a Colt. Was going to sell it to offset the cost of the Colt but ultimately chose to keep it as a backup rifle for classes or the village jobs. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:25:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you still have an AR, @PlaneJane ? Yes, I got a 6940 four or five years ago. Love it. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:30:25 PM EDT
[#14]
Sendra XM177 clone, circa 1985. I think it was around $400. It was a jam-o-matic and soured me on ARs for many years. Even though I carried mostly trouble-free M16s after owning that Sendra, it was many years before I bought another AR.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:35:13 PM EDT
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Mine was a DPMS Sweet 16 that my brother had given me. My daughter took a bad fall and I was hard up for money to pay medical bills so I sold it and have regretted it to this day. Wasn't fancy by any means and I have much nicer rifles today, but I still wish I'd have found other ways and kept it.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:38:25 PM EDT
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Figured this would be a good first post.
I waited way too long but my first was built by me from a: Stripped Anderson Lower PSA Lower Parts Kit w/ buffer tube and Toolcraft Nickel Boron BCG PSA Ambi CH PSA upper w/ FN Cold Hammer Forged 10.5" barrel w/ Geissele Mlok rail Topped it off with a Sightmark Holographic Honestly, this was and has been a great first AR. I've definitely moved on since. Once I get around to uploading some pictures I'll try to remember to post an OG of it. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:39:36 PM EDT
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Superior arms lower with a model one sales pencil barrel flat top 16” kit. Got my uncle to assemble it for me while I was deployed, around 2007-08. Like a lot of others mentioned in this thread the gov gave me an M16A2 and haircut. Sold the franken AR during a panic and got a 6920 still have that one.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:39:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. #metoo  BTW, A1 config is best config. 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:41:24 PM EDT
[#19]
Larue stealth. Hence the username.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:42:59 PM EDT
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Windham Weaponry. Website says they didn't start until 2011, but I could have sworn I opened this account the same year I bought it...2007
It was black when I brought it home, then FDE magpul furniture, then several coats later. Probably about time for another touch up and new barrel. 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:45:01 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Full auto M16A1. Came with a free haircut. Same, first one I bought personally was a Springfield xm177 clone w tritium sights. Still have the upper w teardrop FA just laying around. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:45:17 PM EDT
[#22]
Olympic HBAR 16 inch A2 carbine upper on a Stag lower with a commercial tube! Right after the sunset.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:49:35 PM EDT
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A Colt SP1 AR-15 pre ban sporter. I paid $350 for it. I wish I would have kept it.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:04:41 PM EDT
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Colt
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:16:11 PM EDT
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Mid 80's Colt HBAR. Still have it.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:22:00 PM EDT
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My first two guns were both Colts bought a few months apart in 1993 -- a blue box R6700 Sporter HBAR and a stainless 1911 Gold Cup. Still have both but have never felt the need to buy another Colt since.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:25:30 PM EDT
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LMT Defender, SOPMOD stock and tactical rear sight.
I still have the lower and upper, but rebarreled it to become my first SBR. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:32:45 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: LMT Defender, SOPMOD stock and tactical rear sight. I still have the lower and upper, but rebarreled it to become my first SBR. Rebarreled implies you shot it out. 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:33:06 PM EDT
[#29]
My first “AR” was issued to me but my first purchased AR was a Bushmaster.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:39:39 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck I think I had to pay $2.00 for that first haircut. I know for the next 12 weeks I paid $2.00. Truth be told, only my first one was free...and they left about half an inch on top. I think that was at reception. They then took our pics. One ended up on my ID and they mailed the other one home. My mother later told me she cried when she saw it. After getting to our actual Basic Tng Bn, our DIs marched us to an AAFES barber shop and told us we only needed to say two words to the barber - mighty fine. And yeah, we then needed to pay him. I think it was around $2.50 at the time. The birth control glasses were 100% free though. But back on topic, first AR I paid for was an LE6920...that has been a Timex since the day I bought her. Not my sexiest, but probably the one I am the most fond of. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:40:30 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: #metoo BTW, A1 config is best config. 
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:42:03 PM EDT
[#32]
RRA 16”, mid-length rail/gas system. Bought it in college right before o-bummer got elected.
Form 1’d the lower to make a MK18 at some point. Then replace that with a Full auto M16 lower Currently sits in it’s original configuration at the back of my safe. No plans to ever sell it. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:42:24 PM EDT
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I bought a Bushmaster XM15 at Wallyworld just before Sandy Hook. As soon as I heard the news, I figured the 30 rd mag it came with was the only one I'd get.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:45:00 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Windham Weaponry. Website says they didn't start until 2011, but I could have sworn I opened this account the same year I bought it...2007 It was black when I brought it home, then FDE magpul furniture, then several coats later. Probably about time for another touch up and new barrel. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51606618292_355db5ae6c_k.jpg |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:46:29 PM EDT
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A Rock River that I special ordered from some company in Shotgun News. DD rail stainless barrel Socom stock, and aaa Eotech. Still have it.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:48:19 PM EDT
[#36]
Colt R6500 since '87. I still have it, but it's a little different.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:51:45 PM EDT
[#37]
18" 6.5 grendel was my first ar I built and my first ar. I think I have 20 now and only 2 factory uppers in the group, the rest are home brew.
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:54:21 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Colt R6500 since '87. I still have it, but it's a little different. https://i.postimg.cc/zGPVWJvw/PXL-20201231-210030767-2.jpg |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:55:44 PM EDT
[#39]
XM177 clone, purchased face to face in a deal on my eighteenth birthday. Didn't know squat about AR's other than shooting a buddies. Long story short, it was an illegal full auto conversion and I had the ATF in my house a couple days later. I lost the gun, went through a giant federal goat rope and was never compensated. In the end the dude that sold it to me, a stranger, had multiple other off the books F/A conversions in his home and went to club fed for a while.
 Licensed dealers etc. deal with ATF shenanigans regularly. As a normal citizen that winds up in their cross hairs, trust me when I say that the BATFE does not fuck around. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:56:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:56:47 PM EDT
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Bushmaster Shorty AK, it was a little on the loud side. A2 stock with a 14.5 barrel and a AK74 brake attached to it. I guessed it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:05:57 AM EDT
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My first was built off a M&P lower with a PSA lower parts kit and a CMMG upper (the chart!) and it had a YHM quad rail. I never had a malfunction even mag dumping lots of shitty brown bear ammo and not cleaning it properly. It's got a better track record than my DD build.
 Poor thing is sitting in the back of the safe neglected for many years. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:08:00 AM EDT
[#43]
Daniel Defense A11.
It's alright. By far my most shot rifle. Coming up on 15k rounds.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:16:17 AM EDT
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Mine was different. Colt Sporter in 7.62 x 39. Never one problem with it and I bought it used. Sold it to some guy who just wanted the barrel.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:17:21 AM EDT
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1992
Colt Delta Hbar with 5 20rnd Colt mags and 5 Adventure Line 30rnd mags. I still have it. It has maybe 1200 rinds through it and is in pristine condition. Safe Queen and will be buried with me. 
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:26:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/31/2022 10:59:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/31/2022 11:13:30 PM EDT
[#48]
Eagle Arms M4A1C bought in 1994
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Posted: 1/31/2022 11:21:37 PM EDT
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July 4th 1992 I was 18 and bought a Colt Sporter H-bar 20" barrel
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Posted: 1/31/2022 11:32:48 PM EDT
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m16a4 with burst, also came with a haircut.
first purchase was a bushmaster m4a3 everything I own now is a mixture of home build and factory lowers/uppers. |
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