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Posted: 7/24/2015 11:49:32 AM EDT

I built this gun a few years ago and I've been kicking around the idea of selling this gun, but what should I list it for? (admin, if this is not the right area, please move it)

Specs:

Lower:
-Seekins Billet
-Geissle 2-Stage Trigger
-Magpul stock
-Magpul ASAP
-Magpul MOE Grip
-H2 Buffer

Upper:
-BCM Upper Receiver
-BCM SS410 20" Barrel (5.56)
-BCM BCG
-BCM MOD4 Latch
-Diamondhead 15" VRS Rail
-Magpul RSA
-Vortex Flash Hider
-Bipod Adapter

Round count: around 150 rounds of Freedom Munitions .223 55grain V-MAX

Scope: Bushnell 3-9x40 holds zero and is mounted in a set of rings from Academy Sporting Goods (never saved up for a good scope and mount :()

Groups: The last picture posted is a 5-shot group at 100 yards using the ammo mentioned above

Pictures:

Posted: 7/24/2015 11:59:34 AM EDT

[#1]

Market is ridiculously soft right now. I'd part it out to get the most money out of it.

Posted: 7/24/2015 12:17:23 PM EDT

[#2]

$48 - I'll buy it

Posted: 7/24/2015 12:48:03 PM EDT

[#3]

You'll sell it and the next day kick yourself in the ass for doing it.

Spend some time with it, you'll probably like it again.

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Posted: 7/24/2015 9:59:14 PM EDT

[#4]

In today's market, you'll lose your ass on it. If money is tight, I'd look for another way to come up with some. Maybe rent the kids out to neighbors for some manual labor? That's a damn nice rifle. I'd hang on to it, give it some better glass and put it to use. How you've only put 150 rounds through it in "a few years" is beyond me. If you honestly don't enjoy it and want to get rid of it, you'd be best served to wait for the next shift in the AR market. A year from now, it could easily be worth double what you can get right now.

Posted: 7/24/2015 10:18:05 PM EDT

[#5]

Maybe a grand. It's a frankengun and unless you find the right guy they are a hard sell. Market is crap right now.

Posted: 7/24/2015 10:32:19 PM EDT

[#6]

As others mentioned, it's a buyers market right now. Don't sell it, you'll get raped. Just hang onto it until around the next Presidential elections, prices will skyrocket then as they always do (bank on it).

Posted: 7/24/2015 10:53:46 PM EDT

[#7]

Realistically as a complete gun with the optics $800-900 would sell pretty fast. Right around the $1K mark would take a bit more time but would eventually sell. The market is saturated considering I can build a shooter grade AR for right around $500. The problem is your rifle appeals to a niche segment of the AR world, and most of them just build/buy what it is they want from the get go rather than dealing with the used/2nd hand market. Shooters who are new to the AR are attracted more to the M4gery style rifles (to include M16A4) as well as the 90's era M16A2's since it's what they grew up seeing. I know that being a child in the 90's and remembering the gulf war era was a deciding factor in me building an M16A2 clone.

As much as it sucks to say, your rifle is worth more as parts than it is as-is.

Posted: 7/24/2015 11:26:18 PM EDT

[#8]

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Shooters who are new to the AR are attracted more to the M4gery style rifles (to include M16A4) as well as the 90's era M16A2's since it's what they grew up seeing. I know that being a child in the 90's and remembering the gulf war era was a deciding factor in me building an M16A2 clone.

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Absolutely silly generalization.

I don't need the coolest rails and do-dads when im shooting at paper and steel like 95% of folks here.
Unless of course you are a operator operating operationally.

Posted: 7/24/2015 11:30:19 PM EDT

[#9]

I'd be surprised if you got more than $800 for it.

As other have said, you would do better parting it out, or keeping it until election season.

Posted: 7/24/2015 11:32:40 PM EDT

[#10]

$600.00

Posted: 7/24/2015 11:38:10 PM EDT

[#11]

It is most defiantly a buyers market right now. Everything is in stock and cheap everywhere. Hold on to it. If you bought it a couple years ago you probably paid way more than you will get out of it.

Posted: 7/25/2015 2:30:26 AM EDT

[#12]

Thanks guys...your responses have been my fear all along.

Posted: 7/25/2015 11:39:29 PM EDT

[#13]

If you not selling out of need for cash why not repurpose it? Different upper/rail etc. if you bought the receiver maybe even pistol? Sell off what your taking off and make it suit today's needs/wants.

Posted: 7/26/2015 1:40:49 AM EDT

[#14]

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If you not selling out of need for cash why not repurpose it? Different upper/rail etc. if you bought the receiver maybe even pistol? Sell off what your taking off and make it suit today's needs/wants.

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I'm leaning towards .308 variant or new bolt gun, or I'd be all over that idea.

Posted: 7/26/2015 8:10:55 AM EDT

[#15]

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You'll sell it and the next day kick yourself in the ass for doing it.

Spend some time with it, you'll probably like it again.

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Never sell guns. They cost nothing in the safe.

Posted: 8/1/2015 8:49:47 PM EDT

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I'm leaning towards .308 variant or new bolt gun, or I'd be all over that idea.

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If you not selling out of need for cash why not repurpose it? Different upper/rail etc. if you bought the receiver maybe even pistol? Sell off what your taking off and make it suit today's needs/wants.

I'm leaning towards .308 variant or new bolt gun, or I'd be all over that idea.

Would a .300 blk be a happy median? Keep the great gun and swap out the barrel when you want to step it up.

Posted: 8/1/2015 9:08:54 PM EDT

[#17]

As others stated, you'll take a bath on it if you sell right now.

If you do decide to sell at some point, I would consider ditching the scope rings for an extended 1 piece mount. It sounds like you haven't had any issues with zero drifting and it may be fine that way, but it isn't really best practice to mount to the upper and the rail.

A potentially interested buyer may get hung up on that.

Posted: 8/2/2015 11:44:09 AM EDT

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I'd be surprised if you got more than $800 for it.

As other have said, you would do better parting it out, or keeping it until election season.

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This
Geissele and seekins lower being you're saving grace

Posted: 8/2/2015 4:37:36 PM EDT

[#19]

The way the market is now, you'll get less for the complete product than the sum of it's parts.

Posted: 8/2/2015 11:40:39 PM EDT

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As others stated, you'll take a bath on it if you sell right now.

If you do decide to sell at some point, I would consider ditching the scope rings for an extended 1 piece mount. It sounds like you haven't had any issues with zero drifting and it may be fine that way, but it isn't really best practice to mount to the upper and the rail.

A potentially interested buyer may get hung up on that.

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I really only had that setup because it was a quick and easy way to get shooting. All my money for the scope for this build went into another rifle.