/k/ - Weapons

>>533870

colt is the apple of the firearms industry. go with a ruger ar556 or S&W MP15.

>chest rig

gear is a harder one to answer. that has a lot to do with personal preference.go check out garandthumb's video and get a feel for whats out there or look at condor shit and buy cheap so you can figure out what you want, THEN look for high end versions of the same thing.

>>533872

So by apple you mean standard or just plain shit?

>>533874

overpriced for what it is.

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Pantac makes pretty decent value-for-shekels stuff gear-wise, but Condor isn't the worst thing ever if you're an absolute poorfag.

>>533897

oh yall finally got done witht he pic. about time i save that

>>533870

I'm assuming you want a good price without investing $100 or so for tools to build. Just buy a prebuilt lower, any will work but you may want to keep it in the back of your head that you may want a trigger upgrade at some point. Buy from a reputable company like ruger or even BCM if you have an extra bill to spare, should be around the low 300s without deals and sales.

From there buy a complete upper, check on primary arms or PSA for deals on good quality uppers all year long. Prices should be around 3-400 for a nice one of course the price will change depending on how much shit is on there like wheather or not it comes with the bolt carrier and charging handle or even the iron sights. Last I checked primary arms had a troy upper with bolt carrier, charging handle, and a pair of flip up sights for $400. For budget stuff check bear creek arsenal and radical firearms. don't take my word as I'm not totally sure but I believe the regular military style uppers (triangular front sight and two piece plastic hand guards) are about $100 more expensive than a free float rail upper in many cases so just get the tacticool one it'll let you slap on a light or bipod with way less hassle

>>533927

>100

I've done plenty of lowers with just punches and masking tape. A vice is nice to have but it's perfectly doable without one.

>>533870

>le6920

Don't. It's crazy expensive, for that same amount of money you could build a much better AR, which you should do anyway because it's fun and you'll learn your way around the thing. I would recommend getting high quality parts the first time so you don't need to replace anything. First step should be to head to your local gun shop and pick up an Anderson stripped lower receiver, blemished is fine. That's the part that's considered the firearm and the only one that you'll have to go through an FFL and potentially wait some period of time; the rest of the parts you can order to your doorstep.

>>534073

I've done it with channel locks, tape, and harbor freight punches too but I'm including average costs for upper tools like a magpul bev block and armorer's wrench and torque wrench and shipping costs assuming your gun shops are as kike as mine and purposefully don't stock tools because they want money from gun smithing services but at the same time want out of the AR market.

>>534098

> I would recommend getting high quality parts the first time so you don't need to replace anything

>pick up an Anderson stripped lower receiver

You contradicted yourself, anon.

>>534135

You can't fuck up a lower if it's aluminum.

>>534135

Arguably the only parts you should really splurge on (rifle internals only not optics) are the bolt itself, the fire control group, and the barrel. Even then if you just want a range blaster/home defense/chimpout gun you're just fine with a cheaper barrel (made by a company with good QC of course) seeing as you'll be burning through thousands of round of cheap brass and likely even steel shit for much cheaper practice ammo. No point spending $300+ for some pencil weight carbon fiber reinforced barrel to blast away for something that isn't competition.

>>534135

Lowers are the least important and least differentiated part of an AR15. A company has to try very hard to fuck them up. As long as it's actually milspec, a $20 aluminum lower is going to do the same thing for your gun as a $120 lower. Same thing with an upper and buffer tube, and the various lower parts.

What matters are barrel, bolt, trigger. Everything is just ergonomics (which do matter).

>>534184

Pretty much the only possible improvement you can make to a bog standard aluminum lower is embed related.

>What matters are barrel, bolt, trigger. Everything is just ergonomics (which do matter).

Assuming you're not counting magazines and optics/sights as part of the rifle your handguard does matter. It's primarily the boolean "is it freefloated", but durability, heat absorption from sunlight, and weight (possibly zero repeat on front sight but there's little reason to remove the handguard) can vary wildly depending on which one. Of course this variance is primarily because this is the only part that doesn't have a "milspec".