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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyLate View Post
    Thanks for the offer, Spooky. I am pretty sure I have a PSA carbine stock floating around, unless I gave it away.

    You guys make a good point about folks who may not need or want a "good" AR.

    Andy
    Cool, if ya do go that route and need some extra parts shoot me a PM and I will se what I have squirreled away.

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    Andy, PM me and we can trade email addresses. Id like you to email me a picture of the upper. I could use an A2 receiver.

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    Do you know how it shoots?

    If it could be cut to between 13.7 and 14.5 getting rid of the integral brake, I'd likely go that route and pin/weld.

    If you have an SBR lower, less than 13.7 wouldn't be an issue.

    Be fun to play with.
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    Heavy barrel? Sounds like you need to make light machine gun with all legally acquired parts.

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    Its weird - no markings besides a number on the FSB and Cardinal forge mark on the receiver. Maybe I should put a sign on it in a gunshow stating it is a sanitized upper issued to the CIA operators during the Russian-Afgan war...

    I sent GH41 some pics to see what he thinks.

    Andy
    Last edited by AndyLate; 06-07-21 at 22:40.

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    If I was you.....

    Make a game outa how cheap you can make a complete/functional AR. I actually did this same thing with spare parts. I think I got an AR running with a CHF barrel none the less for like $350. Ended up trading it for work on a trailer to a guy with no AR. He was super happy.

    As long as it can shoot a mag or two without a stoppage and it can be zero'd it's a lot more gun than no gun.


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    So it’s garbage because of the lack of markings, the time period in which it was made, and the fact that you don’t know much about it?

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    My question: is it garbage because you don’t know what it is, or is it garbage because it doesn’t work?

    If it works, build it into a budget rifle and keep it as a second or third rifle... or tenth rifle. Sure, don’t take it to Afghanistan or carry it for warrant service but I wouldn’t be selling anything that works at this point.

    If it doesn’t work, sell it.
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    Thumbs up

    - List it for DOUBLE what you paid for it
    - Be SURE to note, "LESS than a hundred rounds down the pipe; sat in my safe after ultrasonic cleaning since!"
    - Post to "Armslist (or TOS)."

    - PROFIT!!!
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    We had a saying in my old unit- if it’s stupid but it works it isn’t stupid.

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