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8/8/2014 2:11:32 PM EDT
OK folks help me decide--in my early days of BRD I bought one of the New Frontier polymer lowers before I knew of the problems associated with them.  I've since quit using it and it's sitting there, naked and afraid.  What do you think about either a pistol setup or maybe making it a Slidefire lower for just messing around?  If it breaks no big deal--New lowers are cheap lately.  I'd hate to sell it to someone knowing what I know now and I can't bring myself to destroy it.  Help!
8/8/2014 2:13:55 PM EDT
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Dedicated .22lr squirrel gun
8/8/2014 2:15:48 PM EDT
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Considered .22 but I have too many others for that.
8/8/2014 2:16:02 PM EDT
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Stick a polymer 22 LR upper on it, and go shoot it. there have been some 22 uppers on Gunbroker as cheap as $200. good cheap fun gun
8/8/2014 3:20:27 PM EDT
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Put a 5.56 LW upper on it. Shoot it till it breaks. Who knows, maybe it won't break.
8/8/2014 3:31:43 PM EDT
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This.

8/8/2014 3:37:08 PM EDT
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Chances are .223 won't kill it either. Trust me I would never buy poly for anything other than a backup. But my buddy ended up buying a poly 80, we took it to the range after he milled it and I tried my hardest to make it fail shooting m855 5.56, it did it's job perfectly. Now if it was exposed to ice/heat/ice/heat a couple thousand times who knows. But I went from super skeptical to somewhat surprised that day. I half expected m855 to make it explode into pieces but it held up fine
8/8/2014 3:45:19 PM EDT
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Cheap lower = cheap AR-15 build, buy a $199 upper from PSA and build a cheap trunk AR in 5.56/.223

16" Mid-Length Upper

or

16" M-4 Upper

Add a couple of $8.33 P-Mags from BoTach loaded with 28 rounds of SS-109, a cheap dot from InSight and you have a just in case gun in your trunk you could care less if it gets scratched or rusted.

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8/8/2014 3:48:04 PM EDT
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Please do this...and get video.
8/9/2014 8:37:29 AM EDT
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Please do this...and get video.
If I do I'll at least put metal takedown/pivot pins in it.
8/9/2014 10:21:49 AM EDT
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neh, come on be a man and use some wooden ones lmao

I'm also in favor of slapping a cheap ptac upper on it and use as a beater rifle.
8/9/2014 12:27:25 PM EDT
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I would say relegate it to one of those .22 uppers then and save the other (presumably good aluminum) lower for a better build.
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