How comfortable with the AR platform are you?

[Deet]

I have shot an AR many times, I am very familiar with the platform. I sold mine years ago, I not sure if I really want to get back into the AR again. It is an expensive gun to buy new, building one is a little cheaper, and feeding it is absurd. I think I'll stick to bolt actions and pistols.

 

[Cemetery-man]

I owned an AR once. I enjoyed fitting it out with all the neat add-on's that fit my taste but alas the platform just never felt "right" to me so I sold it to a friend. Maybe just old school but I like the feel of some good "wood" in your hands!

Probably the main reason I switched over to the M1A

 

[halfmileharry]

I have the Armalite 10-4 now. I traded for two consecutive ser #s new in box's and a Carbon 15 in 9mm maybe 2 years ago. My best friend wanted one of the 10-4s and the 9mm.
I wasn't enthused at all about another AR after my experience with them in the late 60's. I hadn't fired or even held one since then until the 10-4s.
Ok, I had to fire the 10 so i took it out in the back field and set up 50yds and it was dead on. Moved out to 200, 300, 400. It stayed where I set it. That was the first mag.
I fell in love with it and now have a couple of thousand rounds through the stock gun. It's never had a hickup and maybe 3 flyers out of all the rounds cycled.
I'm doing my first build as I'm picking up a lower this weekend.
Fourty years + now and I'm giving the 5.56 another chance to win me over.
I'm still a .308 fan but I do have a good supply of 556 and 223 I was given by a buddy that recently passed.
I guess we'll see if the newer versions can erase some bad memories of the original M16 use.

 

[lovemachine]

I'm learning and getting more familiar with the AR platform everyday. Still have a long way to go

 

[Spinaltapls1]

I have one, i try to shoot about 1000 rounds a year out of it. but the shotgun is my go to gun.

 

[RichardR]

I voted every nook & cranny as I've been shooting them since the late 80's, but much like Spinal above, my "bump in the night" gun is & always will be a shotgun.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

My first actual firearm was an AR back in the 80's, with mostly M16A1 internals. I'm an engineer, not so much by training as by DNA, so I obsess with how things work. I can take an AR down to the parts level, or build one up, and I understand the operation implicitly, either Colt AR-15 type, or Colt M16A1/A2 type. Or M4. There are inevitably subtleties yet to learn, but no mysteries to me. It may interest you to know, the original Armalite AR-10 was the predecessor to the original AR-15. I've held one in my hands. It was 7.62x51 and the charging handle was a trigger shaped thing in the carrying handle. The original Armalite AR-15 was select fire and much superior to the DOD sourced Colt XM16. The new AR-10 is retroengineered from the Colt type AR-15. Sorry to wander off like that.

 

[LEaSH]

The only part I've not taken apart is the bolt carrier group. Looks simple enough, just never felt the need to.

Probably should get some spares sometime and keep them in the grip.

 

[jjlaughner]

Built my LTM/Larue/Aimpoint setup in 06', took a couple classes, then sold almost all of my other stuff... I will likely build a Novesk based SBR in the next couple years. Hopefully get back to classes and competition shooting again after having taken a couple year off.

 

[Drakkule]

Just put the scope on my Spikes lower, Red X 20" bull upper AR, and bore sighted it today, can't wait to start sending rounds down range. I cleaned a LOT of M16A1's before i went to basic training for the Army, my recruiter was at the national guard armory. I would take them down and clean them every weekend while i was waiting to ship out. Didn't like the irons at first, now i prefer them, the smaller the aperture the better.

 

[j706]

Yes, of course you are right. I have plenty of bolt guns and one of them is my first choice while watching TV. I like working the bolt and getting the dry fire shot off before the image fades away on the screen. It is calming to work the bolt on a rifle hundreds of times in an evening. My favorite is an old Remington 721 chambered in 270. Silky smooth with a great trigger.

I wonder if anyone reading this thinks I am weird. Oh well...Lets just keep this a secret between us.

But from a practical field standpoint, the AR platform will easily do the job of any bolt gun. And that has become a reality with the development of the AR10 platform in addition to the AR15.

Hey don't feel lonely. Glad I am not the only one that thinks like you do. I somehow let a 721 that I had built get away years ago. Man I wish I still had the thing!

 

[Fordtough25]

Love my AR and I don't doubt its capabilities, but I chose know it very well because it's not my SHTF rifle.

 

[youngda9]

I've been tempted...but so far I like my money better. They are so dang expensive and aren't much good for anything(for me) other than an expensive range toy. I could have 2-3 more accurate guns than a decent AR for the same price.

So for now I'll stick with my CAR(Cowboy Assault Rifle)....Marlin 1894C 44 mag.

 

[tgallmey]

I have one and call me a simpleton but still prefer and shoot my AK74 better
Im a simple man who like simple things there just to fancy

 

[jajwrigh]

I have built three stripped lowers and one complete gun from scratch. I feel pretty good with the platform, but I still feel like I have room to grow.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Currently own 3 AR-15s. Have built up several, over the past couple of years. Shot my first one in Basic in 1979. My Colt 6940 is my go-to rifle if the zombies ever attack.