Maybe a dumb question

[gh1950]

I don’t think anyone here is bashing the option to build one, but for a novice, getting quality from the beginning has value in the fact that it should shoot as it is intended.

Someone needs to address this question.

I have a reasonably good set of hand tools, good collection of power tools, and no experience building an AR-15.

It appears to me that most of the parts can be purchased as assembled sub-assemblies.

So realistically how much actual time would it take for someone who's never owned an AR15 to build one?

 

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Someone needs to address this question.

I have a reasonably good set of hand tools, good collection of power tools, and no experience building an AR-15.

It appears to me that most of the parts can be purchased as assembled sub-assemblies.

So realistically how much actual time would it take for someone who's never owned an AR15 to build one?

I say yes. I am taking the plunge. I decided I wanted the rifle I wanted. cmshoot is a wealth of knowledge. He has helped me before w/AR work. He helps a TON of people build rifles. I am hoping to learn what further tools i need to buy for my bench. The building thing already has all the hallmarks of addiction for me. I know the ammo I load is good to better than good...this is the next logical step to wringing further accuracy out of the platform for me. YMMV.

 

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I say yes. I am taking the plunge. I decided I wanted the rifle I wanted. cmshoot is a wealth of knowledge. He has helped me before w/AR work. He helps a TON of people build rifles. I am hoping to learn what further tools i need to buy for my bench. The building thing already has all the hallmarks of addiction for me. I know the ammo I load is good to better than good...this is the next logical step to wringing further accuracy out of the platform for me. YMMV.

3rded

 

[tas6691]

Cost vs benefit. Can you get a reliable 300 blackout rifle for far less than $1200? Absolutely! If my rifle costs $700, and someone else’s cost $1200, can they shoot $500 better than me? Doubt it. Again, guns are tools, not every job calls for Snap-on, some jobs are just fine with Craftsman, but never buy your tools from the Dollar Store. I’ve been earning a living with a rifle for 20 years, my service rifle and personal rifles are very different. When I’m in the woods, hogs don’t return fire, so I might not demand the same quality out of my hog rifle. If I did, it would be wasting money.

Thats for YOU. I deer hunt with a Cooper rifle, a custom Remington and a Sauer & Sohn. The optics are 2 Swarovski's and a Seiner. My point? Yeah I couls hunt with a Ruger or Mossberg for 1/10th of the cost of what I use now, and have. However, I prefer quality and craftsmanship over cheap and quantity these days. Does that make me right and you wrong?? Hell no. Means we have different wants and needs when it comes to our tools. BTW, I have earned a pretty fair living using Snap On tools the last 30 or so years, so I definitely get the Snap On vs Craftsman comparison.

 

[Rgrbulldog]

Thats for YOU. I deer hunt with a Cooper rifle, a custom Remington and a Sauer & Sohn. The optics are 2 Swarovski's and a Seiner. My point? Yeah I couls hunt with a Ruger or Mossberg for 1/10th of the cost of what I use now, and have. However, I prefer quality and craftsmanship over cheap and quantity these days. Does that make me right and you wrong?? Hell no. Means we have different wants and needs when it comes to our tools. BTW, I have earned a pretty fair living using Snap On tools the last 30 or so years, so I definitely get the Snap On vs Craftsman comparison.

Thank for agreeing with my point.

 

[Rolling_trip]

.......I have a factory built 300 blk 16" Anderson that i bought from Brownells on clearance for $329 shipped years back. It has made an outstanding deer rifle so far, suppressed and running a PA ACSS 1-8 scope on it. I hunt in dense woods and it was a perfect fit for that.

 

[BigMike]

Someone needs to address this question.

I have a reasonably good set of hand tools, good collection of power tools, and no experience building an AR-15.

It appears to me that most of the parts can be purchased as assembled sub-assemblies.

So realistically how much actual time would it take for someone who's never owned an AR15 to build one?

The one and only I ever built, after having swapped a whole bunch of parts around so It was not like a never have I ever worked on one before, took me about 2 hours, start to finish. I test fit everything before finally assembly and oiled every pin and greased every spring etc. I had to rebuild the upper twice before I got it right, but when I finished, it was good to go and it still going today in the hands of a buddy. I wont say Ill never do another, but it'll have to be something I want pretty bad to not just buy it off the shelf from a good manufacturer.

 

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I'd build one right now if I had the parts laying around lol...

 

[ReservoirDawg10]

Someone needs to address this question.

I have a reasonably good set of hand tools, good collection of power tools, and no experience building an AR-15.

It appears to me that most of the parts can be purchased as assembled sub-assemblies.

So realistically how much actual time would it take for someone who's never owned an AR15 to build one?

If buying a complete upper and a complete lower, it's two pins. Will take longer to open the boxes than it does to snap em together

 

[tas6691]

Thank for agreeing with my point.

I agree with it to a point. My point is I'll spend money on quality everytime versus cheaper cost that will marginally perform the same job. Give me the DD over the half priced build because of parts quality on the cheap build. But some folks dont see it that.