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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: alfsauve on February 28, 2010, 08:03:49 PM
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A pretty good gun show in Atlanta today. Biggest one by far in some time. ~2000 tables. Beats the typical Eastman show by about 3 times larger.
So the wife says, buy yourself something, but I'm not one to fritter away money, just on an impulse.....most of the time.......some of the time......once in a while!
Well anyway, I decided, that since we're a little short in the checking account dept. I'd maybe just start building on the new AR-15 lower. Say spend ~$150 each month till I get it built like I want. Okay she say, buy a "gun". So I figure that means the "lower" comes first. [Yeah she doesn't fully comprehend the lower=gun thing, so it will take some talking once I get it.]
One stocking dealer there had DPMS for $99 and Rock River for $119, BUT then I gets interested in C3 Defense lowers, cause they're local boys over in Hiram, GA, just down the road. Milled, naked lower for $149. Looked nice and everything.
http://www.c3defenseinc.com/kiss/cart.cfm?cmd=home (http://www.c3defenseinc.com/kiss/cart.cfm?cmd=home)
Can't find a whole lot searching AR-15.com. Anybody heard anything good or bad? Several dealers had complete C3 rifles or ones they'd built on C3 lowers. All, of course said they were real good. Or should I just stick with RRA? Does a milled lower buy me that much? This is being assembled as a varmint styled rifle....I already own the upper.
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I have heard that milled receivers are more solid for what you want it for.
Machined parts may be a bit more tightly toleranced.
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They post on another forum that I am regular on and they seem like good enough people. Everyone I have heard from says their receivers are very nice but I have yet to handle one myself yet.