Thinking of getting a AR-15 what do y'all have

Caliber and brand and how do you like it

Thanks for you help

Smith and wesson m&p15 .22 fun as hell to shoot, super accurate, and cheap to shoot

Smith & Wesson M&P 15T 5.56 nato

Bushmaster ORC 223
All magpul furniture, BCM gunfighter charging handle and plenty more to go

S&W 15-MOE 5.56
Knight's Armament quad rail
EoTech - 552
Grip Pod - GPS-02

More to come

Rock rivers 223

DPMS A-4 .223

Pretty much all the AR's are the same thing, just depends on how much you want to spend and if you are particular to a specific brand. It is the accessories you slap on it that sets it apart...

Price range? Intended use? All ar's are not created equal

Rock River elite operator 2.
Trijicon TR21 scope
Larue quick detach base
5.56 chrome lined barrel
a bunch of fancy shit to make it look tact-i-cool!

check out slide fire stock on youtube. Looks like a serious way to waste some rounds!!

Armalite Carbine. Flattop .223 with ss barrel and muzzle brake, collapsible stock, match trigger, composite forend, Trijicon ACOG TA-11, Harris Bipod, and Redi-mag. Also have a 24" match upper with Leuopold Vari-X III Tactical 4-10X for the same lower, for varmint hunting.

All ARs are not created equal. If you just want a plinker, you don't need to spend a bunch. If you want a tack driver, you will need to dig a little deeper.

Daniel Defense DDM4 with Magpul furniture and a Vortex SPARC micro red dot. 556.

I had a heavy barrel 6.8 gun that was a little more accurate, but I love this M4 on a diet. People put way too much crap on their black guns. IMO

DPMS 5.56 Pretty much stripped down

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rock river
wifes
sig
Smith wession
these are all of my ar all are set up,

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Been looking at delton,cmmg,stag and m&p

Also in a 300 blk out


What y'all think

A little additional info.

RECEIVER MANUFACTURERS
The following is a listing of who machines the raw receiver forgings for whom.



Aero Precision
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Aero Precision

Continental Machine Tool
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Stag
Rock River Arms
High Standard
Noveske
Century (New)
Global Tactical
CLE
S&W
MGI
Wilson Tactical
Grenadier Precision
Colt

JVP
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Double Star
LRB
Charles Daly

LAR Manufacturing
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LAR
Bushmaster
Ameetec
DPMS
CMMG
Double Star
Fulton Armory
Spike's Tactical

American Spirit
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American Spirit

Lewis Machine & Tool
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LMT
Lauer
DS Arms
PWA
Eagle
Armalite
Knights Armament
Barrett

Mega Machine Shop
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Mega
GSE
Dalphon
POF
Alexander Arms

Olympic
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Olympic
SGW
Tromix
Palmetto
Dalphon
Frankford
Century (Old)

Sun Devil
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Sun Devil forged billet receivers

Superior
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Superior Arms
Lauer (New)


I run a Rock River entry tactical with a 3x9 on it for coyotes. Sighted the scope in at 50 yards and only have 3.76 inches of drop at 300 and a max rise of 2.29 at 150 running a 50gr Vmax at 3300fps.

What about uppers

Olympic arms lower, stag arms left handed upper with gen 2 night vision and red dot laser.

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He simply asked what we have and if we like it. Not if it was off the shelf or built. Seems like everyone agreed with me, they are not all the same. Your comment doesn't surprise me, as you chose a fuckin DPMS. If you do your homework one could build a better gun for the same price as a cheaper version off the shelf. It not rocket science to put one together. Go dig some turds.

No offense Brad.

That's because they are as clueless as you. I could shoot circles around you any day of the week with my cheap DPMS. I guarantee my rifle is just as accurate as yours and it cost MUCH less than the overpriced S&W. .

I'll be the first to admit mine is not as accurate, off the shelf, as a home build. Sure you can shoot circles around me without knowing what I have done to it? Are you all that familiar with building one? Materials, different buffers, triggers, staking, etc. How do you know what has been to my rifle? Overpriced, I doubt it I got it way cheaper than most places with magpul furniture to boot. The fit is way better than any dpms I've handled.

You can get smiths for jus as cheap as a dpms, but neither would be my first choice in factory rifle. Lots of ar's are shooters, but accuracy does not neccesarily define quality

I have never built one, but I "tuned" mine a bit.

I don't need to know what you have put into yours. How many people do you think can actually take full advantage of all the fancy barrels and triggers and other internals? Not very many, for the most part in the hands of your average person a custom built "tack driver" will be no more accurate than an off the shelf model.

I know very well what my rifle is capable of and more importantly I am more than capable of squeezing every bit of accuracy out of it. I was a 5 time expert qualifier with my M16 A2, and can group 10 rounds in the chest of a man sized target @ 500 yards with just peep sights all day every day. So regardless of what you have done to your rifle, I still believe I can out shoot you with mine, hands down...

The point of this long rambling post is that in the hands of an average shooter a AR off the shelf will work just as good as a custom build.

And Robin is spot on

Hats off to you. We are talking rifles here not shooters.

but the higher end ones are more reliable

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^^x2.

That's was kinda what I was getting at too, just didn't say it. An accurate gun ain't shit if it stops cycling.

Alright, let me try this again. This is why I hate forums, it is to easy for comments to be taken wrong, and I'm not trying to be an augmentative ass here...

So IMO most people who buy an AR are looking for a "black" rifle that they can hang some cool accessories off of. For this purpose any basic model, low end AR will work just fine as it is the accessories that really customize it. If the OP had given a bit more info about the end purpose of his needs then a better argument could be made for a better brand.

I can't speak for the reliability of the higher end models, but I have had my DPMS for 5 years and probably have a couple thousand rounds through it with no issues.

Bravo company .223 wanting to get that in a .308 to lay the smack down on some hogs.