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Lightweight AR15 options
I am looking to buy an AR for my wife for her birthday (shhhh!). I want to get the lightest weight rifle possible for her. What options are out there for minimizing the wieght of the rifle and what is the lowest weight that I can practically and affordably achieve?
(This will be a plinking rifle so I am not concerned about mil-spec performance.)
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Just don't buy the carbon 15 junk.
Other than that you could do the cav-15 polymer lower. That plus a pencil barreled upper would be pretty light.
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An out of the box 6520 or something similar should do the trick.
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what do you have against the carbon 15 junk?
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The Bushmaster superlight barrel assembly makes a HUGE difference in overall rifle weight. My dad has a varmint AR that has to be over 20 lbs, so I built him an Colt 653 Clone with a Bushmaster Superlight Barrel that's amazingly light.
http://www.bushmaster.com/catalog_xm...A3F%2016SL.asp
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Remember that as weight decreases, felt recoil and recovery time between shots increases.
With that said, the Colt 6520 is the best compromise of weight vs. quality available.
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under 5 lbs?
Rob S, Good point regarding recoil. I may buy a .22LR kit so that my wife can chew up ammo cheaply and without recoil.
I've seen specs from several manufacturers that say specific models weigh between 5 and 6 lbs. Is it possible/practical to have an AR weigh less than 5 lbs?
Also, in reference to Bushmaster's Carbon 15, anyone have any experience with these? Does anyone other than Bushmaster make polymer receivers?
Thanks!