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Posted: 8/27/2007 5:17:07 PM EDT

How old were you and what year did you purchase your first AR? Me 1989 22 years old.A Colt SP1

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:20:32 PM EDT

[#1]

1992 - Colt Competition Match HBar

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:23:59 PM EDT

[#2]

2004 - 32yrs old DPMS Panther Carbine

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:24:38 PM EDT

[#3]

my first AR was a SP1, given to me by my parents.

at the top of this pic:

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:37:22 PM EDT

[#4]

- Colt Competition Match HBar The rifle came home 1996

She is a thing of beauty!

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:37:53 PM EDT

[#5]

Early 2000 (21) after arriving at my first duty station: Bushmaster 16" HB ban carbine with A2 stock and AK74 brake.

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:44:48 PM EDT

[#6]

2005, 22, Bushmaster M4.

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:49:48 PM EDT

[#7]

16years old in 1997. A Colt 20in HBAR. Ive still got the thing too. Folks got it for my Bday. Seems it was around $800 back then.

Its well worn but still runs flawlessly.....

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:51:07 PM EDT

[#8]

1st buy: Summer 2006, 20 years old - Sendracorp XM15 E2

1st & 2nd Builds: On order/In DFW(trade), 21 - Stag & DTI / Double Star & Oly

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:55:12 PM EDT

[#9]

I can't remember if it was 84 or 85 but it was a Sendra A1, came as a kit with all M16 parts (minus the auto sear). Back then I'd have been 21 or 22. I still have the rifle.

Posted: 8/27/2007 5:58:20 PM EDT

[#10]

I just got mine Friday and I'm 47h
I bought a factory built Bushmaster A3 M4...your basic AR, but I do very much enjoy it already. I'm thinking about adding some optics and maybe some more rails for a bipod and...

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:01:12 PM EDT

[#11]

1992 colt 20" match target hbar.

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:14:36 PM EDT

[#12]

'o3, i was conned into buying a carbon 15 by a local dealer. i think i was 2o.

mine but not me

allan

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:17:53 PM EDT

[#13]

January 2007, a Colt 6520 when I was 53.

ETA - There may be an insidious onset of BRD going on here - I now have five complete, with a spare upper squirreled away and parts for one more (that's it, I swear) build on order.

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:27:52 PM EDT

[#14]

Last year, I was 32 before I got my first AR, an RRA Entry Tac w/ a YHM free float rail. That upper is now my .22LR upper, and the lower is attached to a RRA mid-length upper w/ a Leupold CQ/T. BRD shows no mercy!

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:27:57 PM EDT

[#15]

The first I bought was this year, a Stag M4gery. However the one of the type I WAS GIVEN was in 1968.

Hey, what can I say? Who could pass-up "Free Helicopter Rides"?

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:31:46 PM EDT

[#16]

18, in 2003

Bushmaster XM15-E2 16" Post ban A2 carbine w/ A2 stock

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:32:33 PM EDT

[#17]

1985, i was 20 years young. it was an sp1 carbine. in very early 1986 i filled out the paperwork to manufacture a machinegun and was approved and i shortened it to 10.5 ". its been with me ever since.
dennis

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:42:28 PM EDT

[#18]

In 1979 I bought a brand new Colt SP1 with my first paycheck from my 1st police job. I think it was $299.

I was 21

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:48:38 PM EDT

[#19]

April 2006 a 14.5"+ flash hider Gunsmoke M-4(before I knew about gunsmoke) and sometime after I found this site. I was 21

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:49:41 PM EDT

[#20]

1975.....and it was a slightly used SP1, and the best put together colt i ever had.

Posted: 8/27/2007 6:55:16 PM EDT

[#21]

December 2001, Bushmaster ban M4 with Y Comp brake. I sold it a few months later and got a preban PWA.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:02:32 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
1985, i was 20 years young. it was an sp1 carbine. in very early 1986 i filled out the paperwork to manufacture a machinegun and was approved and i shortened it to 10.5 ". its been with me ever since.
dennis

Smart bastard.

2007, 21.
Model 603 (M16A1 9/10ths Colt) Build.
Still not 100% complete cosmetically.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:07:28 PM EDT

[#23]

July 2004
39
Bushy 20" A2 postban
and if you really want to get technical my first true "Colt" AR15 6/2006 20" competition A3

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:08:50 PM EDT

[#24]

Bought my first one in 1997, it was Frankfard Arsenal XM177E2

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:09:19 PM EDT

[#25]

Smart bastard.

no, just lucky.
dennis

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:10:56 PM EDT

[#26]

Had an Olympic Arms XM177E2 replica, short barrel and long flash suppressor installed. It looked cool but the accuracy was only so/so with the short barrel.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:18:57 PM EDT

[#27]

1989, age 18, Colt Match H-BAR that I still own.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:23:38 PM EDT

[#28]

2006 my first was a bushmaster m4a3, shot like shit no matter what ammo was put through it, it pissed me off enuf that i stoped shooting it and just left it in the safe so i traded it for a new walther p99AQ. in about a year im shure i will regret it

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:32:45 PM EDT

[#29]

Seems like a few others had an XM15 model for their first, mine too. I think I was 19 or 20.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:34:53 PM EDT

[#30]

My first AR was issued to me in 1998. Colt M16A1 marking on the lower, configured as an M4A1. The first one I purchased was in 2005. Bushmaster XM15 E2.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:37:03 PM EDT

[#31]

My first AR was an A1 in 1979....thanks Dad.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:43:55 PM EDT

[#32]

First AR-15 was my Rock River Arms Entry Tac last month (July 2007). 45 yrs. old (I feel like I'm still a kid or at least think like one). This month brought me my second AR-15 (Bushmaster Modular Carbine). BRD is insidious and takes over your being

.

Posted: 8/27/2007 7:56:13 PM EDT

[#33]

This past July,32 and traded off a Ruger stainless MKII and a Win 30-30,all told paid $105 bucks to top it off.

It's a PWA HBAR frankenAR....soon to be (I think) an IDF type M-4

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:18:41 PM EDT

[#34]

This year... age 18

Stag 2ht on a Spikes tactical lower.... love it

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:20:39 PM EDT

[#35]

Age 28, Bushy "Shorty AK" with 14.5 inch barrel and AK-74 muzzle break!! Bought November 1998!

I could not find hearing protection heavy enough for that guns "crack"!

Sold it to an Ex Marine at work because he was in the market in 2004, because when the ban ended Septemebr 10th i bought what i origninally wanted an AR-15A2, 20 inch, H-bar(Looks exactly like a M-16A2). This was my second "AR" Even has "Government or Law enforcement use only" on the magazine well. This gun sat for 4 years on the dealer shelf because he could not sell it to a civilian. I was a Peace officer and could have had it but i kept my word and said i would not own anything my friends and neighbors couldn't!

Last week i picked up my third Ar a Colt SP-1, circa 1978, in primo shape!

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:33:31 PM EDT

[#36]

Colt 16" HBAR

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:44:02 PM EDT

[#37]

Last month I got my RRA Entry Tac, oh and i'm still 39

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:51:07 PM EDT

[#38]

2002, 22

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:56:23 PM EDT

[#39]

Age 18, and Uncle Sam bought it for me.

Posted: 8/27/2007 8:58:00 PM EDT

[#40]

Hmmm......Oly PCR-16 post-ban, bought Aug of 2000, I was 25.

While it is down the road ( and I sold it for a profit right before the ban ended!! ) I never had an issue with it. current ride is a mix-master Bushy lower with a Del-Ton upper.

Posted: 8/27/2007 9:08:11 PM EDT

[#41]

1992 my first AR a Colt Blue label 6601 HBAR $650.The furniture was more black than the rifle....traded even a year later for a 20" factory Bushmaster that is now a carbine

...Kinda wish I still had it it be worth a few bucks here for sure.

Posted: 8/27/2007 9:15:09 PM EDT

[#42]

1994 Colt Match Target H-BAR still have.

Posted: 8/27/2007 9:24:49 PM EDT

[#43]

My first AR-15 was a brand new Colt SP1 back in 1971, I was under 18 y/o.

It was a birthday gift from my Dad.

The first one that I purchased myself was a new Colt R6500 SP2 rifle, which I traded my old SP1 in 1984 (now I wish that I had kept my SP1

).

Posted: 8/27/2007 9:45:56 PM EDT

[#44]

Well,I BOUGHT my first black rifle back in '93,I was 25,it is a Colt 20in Sporter Target Model. I freakin' love it!!

Posted: 8/27/2007 9:54:15 PM EDT

[#45]

1986. Oly rifle kit, A2 handguard and stock, but A1 upper receiver, heavy barrel. But back then they were better known as SGW. Yes, the receiver had the "Stop Sign SGW logo".

Posted: 8/28/2007 12:35:23 AM EDT

[#46]

COLT AR15 20 I think it was a SP1 I dont know since I sold it not to long after buying it

1983 18yrs old

Posted: 8/28/2007 12:37:31 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
18, in 2003

Bushmaster XM15-E2 16" Post ban A2 carbine w/ A2 stock

That was My First Bushmaster a 16 shorty

I was scared

but turn out to run 100%

Posted: 8/28/2007 1:08:13 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
How old were you and what year did you purchase your first AR? Me 1989 22 years old.A Colt SP1

52 Bushmaster Gas Piston. I'd buy more but I'm on the edge of being an ammo whore

Walsh

Posted: 8/28/2007 1:33:37 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
2005, 22, Bushmaster M4.

same here

Posted: 8/28/2007 2:57:28 AM EDT

[#50]

It was a Bushmaster 20" A4, and and it was only 3 days ago. Finnaly takeing it to the range today.

I'll get some pictures up, as soon as I figure out how to get pictures from my computer to a internet address so I can put them on here.

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