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Thread: New Daniel Defense upper, well sort of... What would you guys/gals do?

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    Have you actually ever sued anyone in small claims? I did once, I won by default judgement, I have yet to ever see a penny.

    That said, I came out OK! I ended up coming out $75.00 ahead and I got to keep the stripped Daniel Defense upper for my build. My friend was happy as hell to get the upper and thinks DPMS is quality. He kept saying the SEAL's use them blah blah, who knows?!

    OHH!!! and I also got to keep the DD A1.5 rear BUIS. That was another $60.00 retail.

    Anyway I do have a couple other pictures and a little more to the store about the new gun.

    As I said, I bought the upper because it had the FSP setup that uses the A2 front sight. From the side, that setup is badass. I tried adding optics though and hated it. The irons were in the way so I bought a different Aimpoint riser mount so the irons were in the lower 1/3rd and still didn't like it. Then I bought a MATECH rear sight thinking if I went flip, it would help. No, having the A2 in the way of my Red-dot annoyed me so I sold the rail which took like 5 minutes to do (very popular and hard to get right now) and bought the non-FSP version. Here are some of the original build pictures step by step.







    Only picture you can see my front sight in:



    And then what you saw above.



    Never actually used that MIAD grip though. I went back to the black A2 trying to make it look more Block II. Now I'm trying to get a B5 or LMT SOPMOD stock. Looks like I just found a SOPMOD too!
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    I think it's funny that they'd spend the extra on a DD receiver and rail and then throw a dpms barrel in there

    Also I have a DD along with their sights, and my logos are MUCH more subdued than the ones on yours. Mine look more like the text on the adm mount
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    I like the looks and feel of the Block II guns, but the obsession some of the guys on TOS have with trying to match a gun from a pic gets ridiculous to me. You could see some pics of my DD Block II in my threads if my Photobucket bandwidth hadn't been exceeded (guess people like my pics).

    Anyway, beautiful rifle you have and glad you got the deal sorted out. Can you tell me how you reach that light switch?

    Edit, I was able to save and attach 2 pics before Photobucket locked me out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kittens View Post
    I think it's funny that they'd spend the extra on a DD receiver and rail and then throw a dpms barrel in there

    Also I have a DD along with their sights, and my logos are MUCH more subdued than the ones on yours. Mine look more like the text on the adm mount
    Maybe you have a little oil over your DD markings? I've noticed when they get a little wet with oil, they fade and are hard to see. That was right after I cleaned up some excess oil with some rubbing alcohol so they really popped then.

    Quote Originally Posted by ASH556 View Post
    I like the looks and feel of the Block II guns, but the obsession some of the guys on TOS have with trying to match a gun from a pic gets ridiculous to me. You could see some pics of my DD Block II in my threads if my Photobucket bandwidth hadn't been exceeded (guess people like my pics).

    Anyway, beautiful rifle you have and glad you got the deal sorted out. Can you tell me how you reach that light switch?
    I would like to see your pictures! =)

    Also, the pressure switch... I use the Magpul style of shooting. The TD grip is more of a very large hand stop for me then a vert grip. When want the light, I just grab the rifle behind the TD grip and twist my wrist a little to adjust my grip, my fingers wrap under and up the side of the rail and land on the buttons.

    I do not actually USE that light. It's just eye candy for the photo's. It's normally off the rifle 90% of the time.

    I have a black SOPMOD stock on the way now and I'm working on getting a real ELCAN or maybe a 553 and a replica PEQ-15 next. Considering when it comes right down to it, we are building replica Block II guns to begin with, I have no problems using a replica PEQ-15 to fill out the looks as I really wouldn't need it anyway. Would rather spend that $1000~1500.00 on ammo or another build!

    Going to finish this one first though. At some point I need to get my barrel cut down to 14.5 and pinned and welded or buy another 14.5 barrel. I actually already have the KAC flash hider, a spare DD barrel nut and a spare DD low profile gas block. If I just buy a 14.5, I can send those parts out and have ADCO pin and weld and the RIS II will slip over the gas block and into place just fine.

    Then I can just take the 16 inch DD and put the A2 back on, the delta pack back on and mount it to an upper receiver, maybe another DD upper and I also have a spare set of MOE hand guards. Could sell it at a complete DD MOE upper and re-coup a good chunk of change.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roadblock View Post

    Anyway I do have a couple other pictures and a little more to the store about the new gun.

    As I said, I bought the upper because it had the FSP setup that uses the A2 front sight. From the side, that setup is badass. I tried adding optics though and hated it. The irons were in the way so I bought a different Aimpoint riser mount so the irons were in the lower 1/3rd and still didn't like it. Then I bought a MATECH rear sight thinking if I went flip, it would help. No, having the A2 in the way of my Red-dot annoyed me so I sold the rail which took like 5 minutes to do (very popular and hard to get right now) and bought the non-FSP version. Here are some of the original build pictures step by step.







    Only picture you can see my front sight in:



    And then what you saw above.



    Never actually used that MIAD grip though. I went back to the black A2 trying to make it look more Block II. Now I'm trying to get a B5 or LMT SOPMOD stock. Looks like I just found a SOPMOD too!
    I thought the look was bad ass as well. Unfortunately, looking bad ass did NOT make ME shoot better. Out of curiosity did you try the setup with any other optics? I wanted to sort of re-create the LAV signature series DDm4 for myself. And, yours is damn near it. Glad you got somewhat of the satisfaction you wanted.

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    Glad to hear you got it sorted out Roadblock.

    So now you have a Dan Wesson, right? At least that's what I call my DD upper on a S&W lower (that also has a DD LPK).
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