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Best complete AR for under $1000

Re: Best complete AR for under $1000

I say put one together yourself. You will save money on the long run by doing so if you plan on adding rails and your own sights in the future. Buy a complete upper and lower from a reputable company and add all the features you want or need. Instead of dropping a grand on a rifle then removing and replacing parts.
I bought an LMT upper, added an LMT F/A BCG and shopped around on ebay/gunbroker for a good price on KAC 2-600m sight and RAS.

Complete upper(w/o BCG) -$485
KAC sight-$40
KAC RAS-$130
charging handle-$30
Heavy buffer-$25
Complete lower- $350
= $1060
3000+ rounds downrage in every condition possible with no prob.
zeroed for 300yds accurate to 500yds
 
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Depending on what your going to do with it, you might want to look into Stag Arms. A model 1 will set ya back about $800. 1/9 twist chrome lined barrel.
Just givin ya options.
 
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Sir,

Build your own, it's so easy that I can do it without stabbing myself (most of the time). AR15.com even has a step by step instruction page w/pictures. Remember to spend your money on barrel, trigger and optics...the rest is just eye candy.

Matt
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bozcoyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">RRA or OLY </div></div>

I've never owned one, but I have a good bit of trigger time on a couple RRA Predators. Their fit, finish, & reliability seem to be alot better than u would think for an AR in that price-range, and I've never had a FTT, FTE, or any other failure outta any of the RRA's I've been behind, as long as the ammo I was feeding them, & the mags I was feeding them from were good-2-go. Only had a half-dozen or so malfunctions with them. 2 of those were caused by bad reloads, & the rest were all caused by faulty/damaged magazines. Had an old-style GI-mag w/a follower that went to shit, swapped mags, & had it chewing-up/spitting-out immediately(replaced the GI-mag follower with a new, anti-tilt follower from{I think} Brownell's & it was G2G, too!).

The RRA I've had the most time with was owned since new by my uncle, & bought by my father last Sept/Oct, for $525. Where the Hell am I when those kinda deals come around?? Anyway, my uncle had exclusively used an Aimpoint on it, & I had shot it a good bit, as well as taken several coyotes & a couple deer with it myself. While I knew wherever I put that red dot, is where the bullet was gonna be, I didn't have a clue as to exactly how accurate it really was, & since the Aimpoint optic he mounted to it's rail isn't exactly conducive to shooting those teeny-tiny groups, my uncle never put it on the bench to see. Daddy bought it without the Aimpoint, & was planning to use the BUIS my uncle left on it, being the rifle's primary job was to be a light, handy truck/tractor rifle while he was out on our little farm, just in case. He's pretty much only used iron-sights his entire life(he was damn good with 'em too..."WAS," anyway), but after hearing his bitching 'N griping about not being able to focus on the sights & target at the same time, and after 2 eveings in a row the of him missing deer the last week of November, I decided to be a "good son" & buy him a good, quality scope for Christmas, that'd keep the light, handy feel of the little, truck-gun, but allow him to see over 50ft in low light conditions.

I ran-up on a brand-new, 2.5-8x36 Leupold VX-3 w/ the B&C reticle, at a super-cheap price. It seems the big-shot deer hunters believed 2.5-8x36 was way too small for their .300RUM's(to shoot a deer outta a greenfield at 75-80yds...), & the local "Fudds" weren't gonna spend $400-$500 on glass when their $99 Tasco World-Class was just as good, or better! Ha. He was stuck with it, & I got an awesome deal on it. I picked-up 3-boxes of the Win. Power-Points that were on-sale, & sprung for a set of Larue QD-mounts on the way out the door.

I mounted it for him Christmas morning, & after X-mas dinner(lunch to y'all 'Hide-members up-north) we headed out to the backfield to get it zero'd. I figured from the RRA's price-range, & it being a 16.5-18"(can't remember?) lightweight barrel, we'd get somewhere close to average, maybe a little above-average, carbine accuracy. I expected 2-3" groups at 100yds w/ the Win. P-P's anyway, maybe 1.50"-1.75" if we were lucky, & I held my mouth right. I settled her in 1"-high at 100yds, & shot 3, 5-shot groups off my heavy Carhart jacket/truck-hood. I was amazed! All 3-groups were under 1" with 2-groups right-at, maybe just a hair over a 1/2".

I'd like to talk my father outta his RRA & see what the groups would look like with match ammo & a good 2-stage trigger! Idk if the other 2 RRA's I've shot, would shoot as well as this one, but I do know they'll put the holes where u want 'em, & are damn sure plenty accurate for predator hunting of any kind! I wouldn't be scared to "pull the trigger" on a new/slightly-used RRA anytime.


 
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Now as for the Olympic Arms AR's mentioned above, if a rank-stranger came-up to me & asked me what I thought about buying one, my advice to that fella would be, unless u can buy it for $350-$400, I'd leave that sum bitch alone, & save my money for something more reliable..., like a Ford Pinto or something! I've seen too many Oly Arms AR's that were jam-a-matics, and/or were so out-of-spec that neither the upper nor the lower would fit/line-up with a different receiver than the original receiver it came with! I damn sure would want to buy an Oly Arms upper/lower for a build, then have to hope & pray I could find the 1-in-1,000/1,000,000 upper/lower out there that's holes would lime-up with! They may have been greatly improved over the last couple years, but me personally, when I see Olympic Arms stamped on something, I break-out in a cold sweat, my @$$hole draws-up, & I run like Wild-Billy HELL!!!