Olympus
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I've never really been interested in ARs. My Dad has an Colt SP1 that he bought when he was 20 and I've shot it quite a few times. I've found it to be unnecessarily heavy and bulky. I'm also not impressed with their accuracy for the most part. Granted, they're a semi-auto. I have a Rem 700 VLS in .223 that I've tricked out and I can shoot circles around any AR of my friends. But mostly, I can't see paying that much money for something like that. I've easily got $1000 in my Rem 700 and it looks nicer and shoots 3 times as good as say a Bushmaster.
But that being said, I'm starting to come around on the AR. Right now I'm in what I call the "research" mode where I find out everything I can about a gun before I make the decision to buy. I wanted to know if it's possible to do a "budget build" AR? I recently picked up an Olympic Arms AR and it was one that had a really short barrel, car stock, and had just a flat top upper. I like the feel and look of the short AR. So here's what I'm looking for, something with a short barrel and carstock, and flat top upper. Since I don't want it for long range shooting, I don't care about how accurate the barrel is (got long range with my bolt collection). I also don't really care about that picatinny forend that you can attach all the junk to. I might later, but now it's not a must.
So after I've said all that, I guess I first wanted to ask what the absolute cheapest I could buy an AR for and also if it would be cheaper to do a build project buying parts and pieces seperately from different places and what the lowest price I could expect to do a "budget build" also.
But that being said, I'm starting to come around on the AR. Right now I'm in what I call the "research" mode where I find out everything I can about a gun before I make the decision to buy. I wanted to know if it's possible to do a "budget build" AR? I recently picked up an Olympic Arms AR and it was one that had a really short barrel, car stock, and had just a flat top upper. I like the feel and look of the short AR. So here's what I'm looking for, something with a short barrel and carstock, and flat top upper. Since I don't want it for long range shooting, I don't care about how accurate the barrel is (got long range with my bolt collection). I also don't really care about that picatinny forend that you can attach all the junk to. I might later, but now it's not a must.
So after I've said all that, I guess I first wanted to ask what the absolute cheapest I could buy an AR for and also if it would be cheaper to do a build project buying parts and pieces seperately from different places and what the lowest price I could expect to do a "budget build" also.