Build or Buy?

[whitewolf001]

We got in some Magnesium lowers that are STUPID light, it literally feels like you're holding nothing, lol. I think they're 30 or 35% lighter than the Alum..

[McGarrett]

Right before all the panic started last Nov me and my son put together a budget AR. I got a polymer ATI complete lower from  local FFL up the road from me, last one in stock, and my son ordered a complete 16" M4 flat top upper with BCG & charging handle from Rguns. We didn't learn much about the actual assembly since all we had to do was pin it together. I think we had about $550 total in the build with tax, fee, shipping, etc included. At $550 that left me some cash to put into an optic and mags & ammo to feed it. 

 

I know I may hear some flak about the polymer lower but it has performed great and the quality is very good. Seemed like just what I was looking for on a budget build, and It fit the bill for what we expect from the rifle.

 

If you look in the firearm classifieds on here you will note a few complete ARs in the $680 range.

 

I think areo precision had cosmetic blemished stripped lowers cheap when I was looking last week. Don't quote me but I think they were $75 with free shipping to an FFL. Rguns is still stocked up on the complete uppers in the range of $420 plus shipping, last year they were $409 so they have not went up that much.

 

New Frontier complete polymer lowers are around $140, you might check them out

 

Hope that helps you out UncleJak, if I get a chance I will try to get a pic of this budget build we did.

[Spurholder]

OP, buy one of these in order to save yourself from any headaches:

 

http://dsgarms.com/ProductInfo/COLE6920MP-B.aspx

 

$1,095 isn't a whole lot of coin for what you're getting in return. 

[UncleJak]

Thanks for all the great responses! I'm still planning so no definitive plans yet.

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee