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    What components make an ar accurate?

    What parts of an ar contribute to making it acccurate?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jh1 View Post
    What parts of an ar contribute to making it acccurate?
    Here is my take....

    If you're talking tack driving accuracy, it's pretty much the same as any rife. A properly fitted bolt to the barrel chamber, a high end 20" stainless steel barrel that is free floated (touches nothing from the chamber to the end) , and a very light, and crisp trigger. You also have to have enough optic power to see the size of group you want to shoot. Meaning...you can't shoot sub MOA at 300 yds. if you can't see that small of a target area. Without the proper optic, you will have a gun which will "outshoot you" which is pretty much always the case.

    Now for practical accuracy in a CQB for CQB applications...

    Again, a free floated barrel that is 16" or shorter helps with accuracy, and cooling. The barrel and chamber should be Chrome lined which is pretty standard these days, and a properly fitted bolt to the chamber, which is standard with the quality manufacturers like LMT, Colt etc., and a CQB Optic that will shoot head shots all day long at 100 yds.

    This all being said, you could have a 16" CQB with high end barrel, chrome lined, and custom fitted to the bolt, that is free floated, and a Geiselle 2 stage trigger with a rail platform that you could swap optics on, and have pretty much a CQB and Target rifle all in one. This rifle should shoot sub MOA if everything is installed correctly and the shooter does their job.

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    +1.

    And you need good ammo. That's the last variable to wring out all potential accuracy available.

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    The skill of the person fireing it!

    Most ARs are capable of far more accuracy than the shooter can bring.

    That being said ammo goes a long way then barrels

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    1. Quality barrel
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    Ok i'm still building this ar.So who makes the most accurate barrels? Thinking of wilson combat or les baer for the bolt.As far as the barrel,16" or18" .

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    What do you want to do with it? If you want to zap varmints, you are going to want to get a 12" twist barrel to shoot light bullets. If you want an SPR-type clone for shooting heavy match projectiles in socila situations, I know a lot of folks who are quite happy with Noveske offerings or the new Larue Stealth Sniper 16" set-ups. I suck at shooting, so a standard LMT and XM-193 works for my purposes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jh1 View Post
    Ok i'm still building this ar.So who makes the most accurate barrels? Thinking of wilson combat or les baer for the bolt.As far as the barrel,16" or18" .

    Are you a shooter of "National Match" caliber? Can you/are you going to make a run for the top spot at Nationals? If not, save your money. Most current production barrels are capable of 1MOA. Find the ammo your barrel "likes", and the group shrinks. Spend time fixing the idiosyncracies that are holding you back, and the group shrinks. Get it? All you need is a decent barrel, some good ammo, and some quality trigger time. Most folks can't outshoot the barrel of your basic of the rack AR.

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    And here's your winner.. Jonny.. tell him what's he's won....

    It really is a simple formula .. Ain't it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jh1 View Post
    Ok i'm still building this ar.So who makes the most accurate barrels? Thinking of wilson combat or les baer for the bolt.As far as the barrel,16" or18" .

    Those are most likely good barrels, but think that you should also look at Noveske.



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