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What magazines does that rifle take? I could be tempted to buy one at that price. Sell the barrel, put a better barrel and stock and trigger on it, and be money ahead of building from scratch - if it takes commonly available mags.
Well if Walmart sells the DPMS 308s I am sure they sell the DPMS magazines as well.
It takes the Magpul 7.62X51 Pmags.
Hmm.
That's a deal, then. $900 for a .308 AR.
Just to let you know, this is the Sportical version of the LR-308. No F/A or ejection port cover. 900.00 isn't a stupendous price on them.
But if you're piecing one together, the uppers with forward assist and ejection port covers are a little hard to find, now. Last weekend, I was looking at a site that listed bolt carrier assemblies as having 8 left in stock, but I wanted to get the upper receiver first, since I'm building on a TM 80% lower and wanted to check the dimensions on the upper's rear lug, so I held off on the bolt carrier assembly. The next day, I was thinking it wouldn't hurt the budget that much, so I went back to order the bolt carrier assembly, and they were out of stock. Midway got a shipment of upper receivers (with F/A and ejection port cover) in on Wednesday, I ordered one during lunch (UPS dropped it off on Friday), and they are 'out of stock' again. The 'slickside' (no F/A or ejection port cover) DPMS upper receivers seem to be much easier to find in stock.
Complete LR-306 upper assemblies seem to be 'out of stock' everywhere I've checked. At least with the Walmart rifles, you get a complete rifle that you can shoot now, and upgrade later when you can find the parts.
As for mags, I'll be buying the Magpul mags. Magpul's .308/ Pmags hold 20 rounds. DPMS's LR308 metal mags only hold 19 rounds. Mags for the early AR-10's, made before Armalite switched to using modified M-14 mags, should also work. I think I read that Armalite is going to bring back the original lowers as an option (AR-10A for an original style lower, AR-10B for the later lower that takes modified M-14 mags), so that would be another potential source of mags.