Show your AR15s.

[ONE-TEN]

I’ll get this started. This is another rifle near & dear to me. As much as a part of my firearms hobby as my Savage rifles have been, are my AR15s. Over the years I have owned quite a few; and built (assembled), 10x that amount! I’ve never been big on the “fan club” cartridges that keep coming out. Not that there’s anything wrong with having those. I just prefer my ARs in 223/5.56. Or, as I now use, the 223 Wylde chambered barrels. (Better precision than a 5.56 chamber, while being much more forgiving than a .223 chamber.) Truth be told, I’ve never purchased a single factory AR. Not one! Every one, over the last 20+ years of building firearms, I built myself. I prefer choosing each part to use. And since roughly 2017, I’ve only used 7075 80% Billet Lowers. Finish machine them for my personal use.

Here is my latest piece I built a few years ago. Although I like using 7075 Billet Lowers, I prefer the standard MilSpec, forged Upper. Along with that a Ballistic Advantage 16” SS barrel with1-8 twist. It’s also been Black-Nitride treated. From there, it’s a shopping cart of custom parts.



The best thing is this AR is MINE! I don’t just mean the obvious ownership. I mean, I’m the producer of every AR I build. Because I machine 80% Lowers, and assembled using a hodgepodge of custom parts, makes ME the producer. I like that.

 

[Fjold]

I have 5.56, 6mm ARC and 350 Legend rifles:

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

 

[IndianHead]

A few of my favorites

 

[Fjold]

I have a left handed STAG AR also.

 

[CFJunkie]

Les Baer Super Varmint .223 1:8 twist 18-in 416R SS Bull barrel with Mag-Pull adjustable stock that replaced the A2 stock that was too short for me.
The targets are the factory test targets with this rifle - 5 round groups of Federal Gold Medal Match factory 77 grain SMK ammo using fixtures.
The rifle was guaranteed to shoot under 0.5 inches at 100 yards with factory ammo. I guess they proved that.
I could never match the accuracy on the bench compared to a fixture.
My best 50 loads averaged 0.284 primarily with 69 gr SMKs and TMKs and 1 load of Nosler CCs, and 77 gr SMKs and TMKs with a few Nosler CCs and Bergers thrown in, but with about 4 loads of 52 gr Hornady and 52 and 53 gr SMKs just to see how the lighter bullets would do.
The Les Baer really liked N133 with the light bullets.