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Pics Official AR15 Picture Thread

Basic 11.5'' with A5 buffer and Geissele trigger.
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Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, or Feds/DOJ/ATF want to ask questions:
Fixed 10/30 Magazine, have since switched to a magpul 10 round mag so it can fit in the safe easier.
Fake, slip on "suppressor" This One
C7 Upper
16" Barrel
OG Surefire 6P, Weaver 1" Mount
Aimpoint 3000 (was silver, so don't hate me for painting it)
Leupold 1" Scope Rings

Mostly period correct type build, heavily inspired by Blackhawk Down, Gary Gordon's rifle. Also have a Shughart inspired M1A

Only "modern" feature is the BAD Lever, I have them on all my builds.

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Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, or Feds/DOJ/ATF want to ask questions:
Fixed 10/30 Magazine, have since switched to a magpul 10 round mag so it can fit in the safe easier.
Fake, slip on "suppressor" This One
C7 Upper
16" Barrel
OG Surefire 6P, Weaver 1" Mount
Aimpoint 3000 (was silver, so don't hate me for painting it)
Leupold 1" Scope Rings

Mostly period correct type build, heavily inspired by Blackhawk Down, Gary Gordon's rifle. Also have a Shughart inspired M1A

Only "modern" feature is the BAD Lever, I have them on all my builds.

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If you want a realistic looking Ops Inc. supressor, get this. To make it stay on, you unscrew the front and rear caps. Then wrap a bunch of paper towels around your whole fake supressor, then wrap a bunch of duct tape on it to make it stay. Put as much in it so when you slip the replica supressor tube on it, you need to force it down

 

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If you want a realistic looking Ops Inc. supressor, get this. To make it stay on, you unscrew the front and rear caps. Then wrap a bunch of paper towels around your whole fake supressor, then wrap a bunch of duct tape on it to make it stay. Put as much in it so when you slip the replica supressor tube on it, you need to force it down

If I were going to do something other than what I already have, I'd probably just get the Ops Inc. Suppressor "trainer". I wasn't about to spend $300+ just for a fake can to look closer to the OG ones when I can get the one that I got for around $30, lol.

 
A few of mine.

Multi-gun/PCSL rig with newly installed Eotech Vudu & EFLX. Have not shot it with these optics yet, but looks promising. I had an old pre-2009 512 that was dying and Eotech took it back and provided a 50% discount on the Vudu:


My old Sig 516. Chunky, but a great shooter with heavy bullets:

 
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A few of mine.

Multi-gun/PCSL rig with newly installed Eotech Vudu & EFLX. Have not shot it with these optics yet, but looks promising. I had an old pre-2009 512 that was dying and Eotech took it back and provided a 50% discount on the Vudu:


My old Sig 516. Heavy, but a great shooter with heavy bullets:

Was that the factory stock on the Sig 516?
 
This was originally a CMMG .308 pistol built in CA with a bullet button during SSEV1 back in around 2012. I made it a SBR here in AZ, but with a 12.5" barrel it's ballistics never really made sense. Was a safe queen for many years. I recently installed a brand new CMMG 12.5" 8.6 BLK barrel with pistol gas system and no other changes to the gun. The gun runs flawlessly unsuppressed & suppressed with my subsonic loads of 285gr Gorilla fracturing copper projectiles. I used Gorilla's recommended load of 13.5 of Lil Gun and ended up with average 1055fps at 4500' altitude, SD of 9 for a 10 shot string. Grouped about 1" at 100 yds.

I'm going to work up some supersonic loads next. I added the DNT TNC225R and it does a fantastic job of calculating the 8.6 trajectory since it flies like a bowling ball. I have only shot it out to 200 yards so far with 300 being a practical limit, IMO.

 
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My very first self build, from 2015, and still my favorite rifle. Has had countless iterations since then.

It's a 14.5" pin/weld, mid-length. Fixed iron sights, with front sight adjustable gas block, and shoots just about anything you feed it.

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My home defense AR in .300, don’t remember all the build parts but BCM lower an Aero upper.
 

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IMG_1525.jpegFinally got an upper for the last completed lower I had. Just a simple psa 149 buck clearance special. But so far has worked pretty damn good. Aero lower and cmc parts kit with fa binary trigger.

Gonna keep it open sighted. No plans for optic. The bottom is my 10.5
 
What's your Safe Queen AR? Mine?
Noveske MK12 Variant, eat your wallet out.
Noveske Devgru Gen 3 Receiver Set, Douglas Mk12 Crane Spec GunKote Gray Barrel, PRI Parts, Geissele High Speed Trigger, Badger BCG/CH, Larue Harris Bipod, AE OPS brake...


Still need to change scope.
 
16” SR-15 upper
SR-30 lower
EXPS2 + G33
Magpul parts
Geissele SSA-E trigger

Swapping the Eotech for a Leupold Mk4 2.5-10 this weekend.
 

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