jb2012 wrote:That sounds bad to the bone TAM! What kind of handguard are you going with?
The Annoyed Man wrote:- 11" Samson Evo keymod rail
It has the Rainier Arms name on it, but it is made for them by Samson, and has Samson's name on it too:
AndyC wrote:You have some fancy parts in that thing - wicked!
It's a disease.
It starts when you have a chance to buy a Spikes lower at a reduced price because your son works in a gunstore. At first, you think "I'll just append some
regular parts to this lower, and I'll have a decent little AR for a reasonable amount of money". But pretty soon, your monkey brain takes over, and it says "a Spikes lower deserves a Spikes upper". Of
course you follow the dictum that a nice rifle deserves good optics, and.......well, you know where that takes you. And then there's the barrel. The heart of the beast. Monkey brain says you can't stick any old piece of PVC tube onto that receiver, so you go to Rainier Arms .....because you're dumb enough to remember a friend bought a barrel from them once (price be damned) and it was a
great barrel .......and your new baby Spikes receiver set
deserves a great barrel, right? And then there's the trigger.......because your Spikes lower comes with all the LPK parts
except a trigger (because they already know what's going to happen, the poltroons), and you remember that you loved the Timney trigger you dropped into your Remington 700 so much that you put one into your SCAR 17, so you buy a 3 lb Match trigger for your Spikes receiver set...... and a good rifle deserves a great trigger, right?
Etc., etc., etc. And pretty soon, you have more in a carbine length AR than you have in a SCAR 17......by a considerable amount.
Put another way, this is actually going to be the most expensive firearm I own.
But this one is a keeper and it ought to shoot really well if I do my part. Rainer says it's barrel is "[g]uaranteed to shoot sub-MOA at 100 yards with match ammo." You have to be willing to go out on a limb to make that kind of claim, and Rainier has a great rep. And it makes me realize that when I
do get around to building a 10.5" SBR upper for it, .300 Blackout sounds like a better idea than the original 5.56 SBR I planned to build.
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