Winter Hobby.....................Building AR15

Robfu said:
Do you have any expirience with the Vltor monolithic uppers?
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I've played with the carbine length Vltor upper. It was heavy as crap IMO. For the money and weight I really dont feel like your getting much, if anything. I much rather run a conventional upper and handgaurd. They way I run my guns I stand a pretty good chance of damaging stuff. With a conventional setup if I crack it, I can replace it. With an Vltor, that's not possible. I'm also a big fan of newer generation handgaurds that allow you to put rail sections where you want them, instead of having them built on. I really don't need that much rail real-estate and prefer the slimmed design of something like my Troy or the new Samson. I also like having handgaurds over the 12" rifle length that Vltor offers. The handgaurd on the 3-gun rifle above is 15". THis protects more of the barrel when I'm shooting from akward positions and off barricades.

Just my opinion
 
Just picked up an ASA side charge upper. Don't really know much about them I just saw it and it looked cool so I bought it. Anybody have any experience with them? I'll try to get pics up asap.

Garth
 
cricketdave said:
the more I look at the 458 socom the more I want one, that would be a butt kicker on hogs.
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Yes, recent showing on Sons of Guns they made one with infrared scope for night too:)

Smoked some bacon:thumbup:

I will say it made me really want a 45-70 govt lever too:cool:
 
SGTCap said:
I had it for about a year and sold it. It was alright. I got mine when Marty first introduced the round to the public (before RRA started selling them). It shot well but wasn't real practical. I built it for hog hunting on Ft Stewart in Ga, but after a year of striking out every weekend I gave up on the SOCOM and hog hunting. The ammo was too expensive and hard to find for plinking and I never did get to kill a hog with it so it got sold. Honestly I would buy a Marlin SBL 45-70 before I did the SOCOM thing again. If I just had to have another big bore AR, I would go with a SOCOM again, though. It outshines all the other big calibers. If you decide to get one, keep in mind it was designed to be a short-barreled rifle. Marty designed the round to achieve full powder burn around 8.3" so even that 10.5" was longer than need be. If I was to do it again I would set it up like the suppressed 22 in the pictures above it. I would run a 8.5" barrel with a 12 or longer handgaurd and a suppressor that would fit inside the rail. That way I get the handling of a longer gun (which I like) and a suppressed sound signature(the big ammo is subsonic so it would work out well). Recoil wasn't bad either. One buddy got scope bite with it, but I'm convinced that was his fault, not the gun.
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Well since I just caught up I feel rather intelligent now that I see what you wrote:thumbup:

I grew up in your neck of the woods. Spent nearly every summer in Savannah.:cool:

Awesome pixs:)
 
knife hunter said:
Yes, recent showing on Sons of Guns they made one with infrared scope for night too:)

Smoked some bacon:thumbup:

I will say it made me really want a 45-70 govt lever too:cool:
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Thats exactly why I like it, I've hunted with a 45/70 lever gun and single shot alot and its been a really useful round. The same performance in a ar sized gun would be really handy. That and just all around fun to play with. I admit it I'm a big kid.
 
cricketdave said:
Thats exactly why I like it, I've hunted with a 45/70 lever gun and single shot alot and its been a really useful round. The same performance in a ar sized gun would be really handy. That and just all around fun to play with. I admit it I'm a big kid.
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Yes me too:D

my infi addiction is so bad that the lever gun just leaves me more cash for infi:D

Maybe Garth will trade me one of his AR builds? I know where to get Cabo Wabo;):D
 
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