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Posted: 6/16/2008 12:13:49 PM EDT
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As you all can see by the number of my posts here, I am not a ‘highly experienced’ AR poster person. However, I am planning out a first time AR-15 build and thought I would throw out my ideas and see what some of you think of my plan so far. I have some background with this style of rife but not really that much. Back in the Late 70s I bought a full auto Olympic Arms with a 10 inch barrel and shot many thousand rounds from it over the years. It was lots of fun and good stress relief. When the police department I worked for issued AR-15s I adopted an H-Bar Colt rifles with Colt’s 4 power scope. That thing always felt like I was carrying a barn door around after my little gun but it did shoot well. I unfortunately sold my Olympic in 04 after retiring (27 years) and moving out of my home state. Anyway, I have the bug again and find myself wanting to adapt it to hunting deer and hogs in the woods at a hunt club where I am a guest of a member. I have been researching this site for several weeks now and this is what I have come up with. 1- 6.8 SPR - The wife thinks 7.62x39 makes more sense as it’s cheaper with a larger bullet but after reading the pros and cons I am favoring the 6.8 at the moment. 2- I want this thing to be pretty accurate so I am looking for a bull barrel just over 16 inches. No BUIS are planned so I do not need a longer site radius, and no flash suppresser in this application. 3- Floating hand guards- rifle length, without rails or attachments as this rifle needs to make a good impression with the other hunters in the club. 4- I was first thinking of the A2 stock but am now considering the collapsible type for use in tree stands? 5- Which buffer and spring is needed for the 6.8 SPR 6- Mega receiver and flat top upper with the M4 ramps. 7- I will probably start with the stock trigger and just polish it out a bit and see what I think. I can add an aftermarket match trigger latter. Any big problems you can see or suggestions you would like to make? |
Yep the 7.62x39 is cheaper, but the 6.8 gives you BETTER terminal performance, flatter trajectory, and I've found it to be a much more accurate round given the same platform. For hunting I'll think you'll find it a better round. A bull barrel is neither required nor desired. A HBAR or SPR profile is all you need.
I don't get it, who does your rifle need to impress?
Good choice, personally I prefer the Magpul stocks with the 6.8 as they are more solid when locked up.
Standard ones work fine.
If you want to smoothen it a bit, then polish the trigger pin with a bit of emmory cloth and make sure it's properly oiled. Other than that just shoot the mo-fo alot, that will polish the surfaces w/o going through the hardening. Oh and you need to post pics of your rig when it's built 
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Floating hand guards- rifle length, without rails or attachments as this rifle needs to make a good impression with the other hunters in the club. I agree with this because it was hard to convince the lease holder that I was hunting with a legal rifle and not a MG. He has the power to pick and choose members, otherwise id say who cares. |
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For hogs you might could consider a 45 or 50 caliber upper. Best one for reloaders w/ the widest range of bullets that are proper for a variety of size/toughness of game is probably 458 socum (trommix). You could shoot lighter bullets for deer & bigger ones for hogs. I recommend the JP VTAC FF Tube. It is light & ventalated w/ optional modular rails. They also sell offset sights for the hand guards. They have some of the old style rifle lenght ones for $89! Not quite as good as the new design but a great bargin. THe bull barrel would probably be a bit much to Lug. That is basically a 1" OD to muzzle! |
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I have been making some progress with my project. It’s a Mega lower with RRA internal parts. The collapsible stock is handy as it fits me extended and the wife when collapsed down. By following the instructions I found on this site assemble went pretty easily and did not take very long. Now to order parts for the upper half. http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm349/trapdoor_01/Lower.jpg I did look at those JP handguards and like them. We will see |
Per usual, Forest got to your questions before I and his answers are what I would have said. I own both an M93B (and love it) as well as a standard A2, I love the A2 and use one on about every AR I own. The 6.8 SPC is a great hog gun, there have been many people post photos of hogs, deer, BEAR, and other game with the 6.8, check out this link for more details www.68forums.com/viewforum.php?f=11 Note to view that hunting forum you have to be a member (its free ) also see this site, cardinalarmory.com/cardarm-pcart/pc/viewcontent.asp?idpage=11 A good array of animals downed with the 6.8 |
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