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    What caliber are you looking at for your $1000 rifle? Do you handload? I see Walther Lothar barrels pop on Gunbroker from time to time with matching bolts with "sub-MOA or your money back" guarantees:

    http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=243188306
    Last edited by digitalpaladin; 07-24-11 at 13:48.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hunt_ak View Post
    Reasons for your distaste toward POF?
    I'm sure he's got his, but here's mine:

    Objective: Because they're heavy as balls, expensive as hell, their chambers are cut tight as shit, they don't have the manufacturing capability to support a decent production rate (they've ALWAYS operated at post-Obama-election-market lead times), and over the entire population of guns they've ever built, the only thing reliable about them it are the heavy/expensive factors.

    Anecdotal: I've literally never seen one last past TD1 of any class I've ever taken where somebody shows up with one of those boat-anchors. I mean completely tits-up, thank-god-i-brought-a-backup, down hard.

    They make a decent billet lower, though.

    Besides which, it's a completely moot point. You can barely get a POF lower for under $1000 (yes, I'm exaggerating...), so ya can f**king forget getting an upper or complete rifle in that price range...thereby negating ANY relationship POF has to this thread except as a casual mention.
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    Please listen

    Ive been down this rabbit hole on my own. Take my advice or leave it :

    1. Research. Absolutely the most important thing. Turn you bs filter on high, and glean what you can whe on the internet. The guys on this forum are very helpful and there is a wealth of knowledge in the stickies. Read them. Books on the subject are good. Learn your weapon, then thin about building.

    2. Research more

    3. How tight of a group you want? Buy parts accordingly. This might be where you have a problem with $1000 ceiling.

    4. There is nothing wrong with buying a company job. There are quality people out there. Again, Research!

    5. I built a 16 in frankenstein that keeps sub 1 inch groups. Parts are varied, and I just took my time. 700 dollars. Sold it like and idiot to fund another project.

    So if you thinkyou can, hell try! You will prove yourself right or wrong, but if you do it right you will still have a great weapon

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    $729 BCM 18in SS with TRX

    $22.95 Charging handle

    $140 BCM Bolt Carrier Assembly

    $51 LPK less Trigger

    $19.95 Receiver Ext.

    $14.95 Buffer Rifle

    $4.95 Rifle Spring

    $142 LMT 2-Stage

    $100 for lower

    $1224

    I figure $100 for a lower- and I would consider the set-up the cheapest you could go for a 'tack driver'.

    Maybe you could get lucky with a MIL trigger and save $100, another $100 if you go with a 1x7 CL barrel. I think a $1000 tack driver would depend more on being lucky and finding a cheaper barrel that shoots well. FF Barrel is a must and I can't think of a cheaper, solid one than the TRX.
    Last edited by FromMyColdDeadHand; 07-24-11 at 16:10.
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    Actually, if all you're after is accuracy you can do it. Spend your money on a good trigger. Years ago I used to like the little groups with an AR thing and as far as accuracy goes had pretty good luck with DPMS SS barrels. .223 only, no 5.56. Heck if you want accuracy just buy a complete free floated heavy S.S. barreled DPMS and add a trigger and you have a pretty good chance of getting a very accurate rifle. I won't comment on any other factors that many consider more important than accuracy.
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    I have over 200 rifles, and make detailed range reports.
    I cut a chamber ~ 4 times per year for my own consumption.
    There are lots of accuracy rituals out there in the literature and on the internet.
    Errors do not simply add up, but cancel each other out part of the time.
    Different people have different standards for accuracy, and one man's key is another man's waste of time.

    This will get sub moa:
    no wind
    concentric ammo
    clean bore
    good bullets
    light bullets relative to the mass of the rifle
    bullets inter rifling concentric

    None of that had to do with which rifle, except the bullets entering the bore concentricly. Not easy to do with a Nato cut chamber.

    If you cut a SAAMI .223 chamber with a .250" neck and the throat .050" short, it might jam in semi auto mode. You would have to make sure the ammo fits, and load it single shot.

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    I'm a stickler for what my rifle look like. Yes I'm one of those guys. Which is why I want to build my own rifle. I don't want to buy a complete then buy a trigger. Then a FF. Then a take of the butt ugly front sight. Then buy a new stock. Which mean I just spent 2400 on a 1200 dollar rifle. Then be stuck with all that stuff in a cabinet never to be used again. Unless I give it all to a cheap friend who just bought an Olympic. hahaha

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    My rifle is also going to see a lot of camping, and bushwhacking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smokie86 View Post
    I'm a stickler for what my rifle look like. Yes I'm one of those guys. Which is why I want to build my own rifle. I don't want to buy a complete then buy a trigger. Then a FF. Then a take of the butt ugly front sight. Then buy a new stock. Which mean I just spent 2400 on a 1200 dollar rifle. Then be stuck with all that stuff in a cabinet never to be used again. Unless I give it all to a cheap friend who just bought an Olympic. hahaha

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    It is far more exactly about what ClarkM said above, than anything else you might read.

    ClarkM has it figured out, and it exactly mirrors what I have found through a very large number of firearms and AR's myself.

    Paul

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