So how good is the AR-Stoner complete upper for an AR-15 and how does it compare to other upper options on the market today? We help answer this question as well as look at the accuracy and reliability you can receive from this upper sold at MidwayUSA.com…
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If you don't have at least one of these for every member of your family, your an ANTIFA member and a communist…..m:)
4140 cm , non chrome lined, parkerized ( non phophate finished) shooting 3-4" groups??? NOPE- for the $279-309 Midway sells their house brand, I can buy from Palmetto State Armory a 4150/ CMV barreled, mil spec phosphate finished or melonite treated complete upper that will at least shoot 2.5" avg groups….
👍great post. very helpful. up to about $280 now. thank you.
will this accept .223 ammo?
In today’s world keeping one in the closet might be smart.
Just buy this upper for training and shoot the shit out of the barrel with cheap steel cased ammo.. I have my psa freedom upper that I do the same with. By the time you burn out the barrel the cheaper ammo will have already paid for a couple new ones
I bought two of these AR Stoner uppers from Midway for $199.00 each. Paired one up with a Plum Crazy lower, for $300.00 I have a super lightweight, great for walking around AR! Extractor broke at 150 round mark, replaced with mil spec, good to go again.
I also subscribed and gave you a thumbs up. But let’s run it again.
Just picked it up for 215
Thank you for the video. Over the last year I have built a few AR15's and one was an AR Stoner. I bought several different MIL-SPEC type BCG's and after switching stuff around and 2 of the rifles were made into 22LR and we never used there 556 BCG and I have been wondering if the AR-Stoner BCG was the one that was shaped a little different. Very nice review. We have had no problem with the AR-Stoner and of coarse if you are wanting a budget build look into PSA .
199 or 210 shipped how can you beat that?
Ar stoner is aka bear creek arsenal… You heard it straight from the horses mouth
I built an ar15 with one of their (AR Stoner) side charging uppers, 15.5" free float m-lok handguards, and 20" 223 wylde barrels. I generally use the 62gr IMI ammo and normally get between .5-1" depending on how the day is going for me. The worst group I've had with this rifle and the 62 IMI was about 3" (honestly probably had more to do with me than the rifle) and the worst group I've had with the rifle and any ammo was right around 5" using the cheapest ammo (Tula 55gr) I could find in Wally World. Again I've seen videos where the cheap Tula ammo can shoot under 3" so i probably had some part to play in the poor grouping. If you are still reading this I know someone who works at Midway and yes, AR Stoner is one of their house brands as is Swenson, supposedly they are manufactured by the same people that manufacture parts for several other companies (he has been told several of them but he doesn't remember which ones), but since they don't have to go through a middle man to get the products, and they aren't selling to any other parts seller on contract, they can sell it for a cheaper. Where as dpms may buy the exact same parts from the manufacturer just with a different brand stamping on it, they then sell the product to other companies (brownells, cheaper than dirt, midway, sportsman guide, etc)and they sell it themselves. Since they are also selling it to other companies to make a profit they can't sell directly to consumers for their cheaper plus profit cost because, that would effectively be saying fuck you to all the secondary retailers they have and people wouldn't buy their products from the secondary retailers at the price they'd need to sell them at to make a profit.
Oh and Midway ends the sale tonight at midnight!
I just bought An ARS 1:7 for $50 and a ARS enhanced trigger for $25. It's for my kids first built. Good entry level prices. I reload my own so we'll see what we can do about the accuracy then. Good video.
The AR stoner is on sale today for $199 !!
Got a Nitrided barrel assembly for $125 (FSB, Barrel Nut, Delta Ring, Flash Hider, Etc) These not having chrome lined barrels won't be a huge issue going forward.I'm a big fan of nitriding/meloniting.
Just picked one up on midway for $219! very happy!
Great info here.
I'd love to see you do a review on a Radical Firearms upper. I like the idea of a Nitride coated barrel. I know Radical Firearms coats both the inside as well as the outside of their barrels with the Nitride coating.
I just picked up a Radical Firearms 16" 5.56 upper with a 12" hybrid free-float rail for $239.99 on sale at Brownells. What I like about the rail is the Key Mod is reversed so the recoil is less likely to cause accessories mounted on it to loosen, or come off. It also has a fully Nitrided barrel. I could have gotten it with the BCG and charging handle but chose to upgrade to a black nitride BCG and a BCM charging handle.
I spent $239.99 for this upper, $135 for the Battle Arms Development Black Nitride BCG, and $49.95 for the BCM Mod 4 BCG. All out that comes to $424.94. After spending $29.95 for the Tacticon backup sights, My total build comes to $454.89. I threw this on a complete DTI lower I pirated off my DTI rifle. I can always swap back and forth if I chose to.
This is my final budget home defense build. I don't want to use my high end rifles for home defense since I don't want them to be confiscated for a "self defense homicide" investigation.
I bought the Stoner for $249.99.
Is the Stoner barrel melonited?
Thanks for the great video's. I do however disagree with you about chrome lined barrels. Chrome lining is a MUST! Company's that do not chrome line their barrels are lining their pockets skipping chrome lining. You mentioned at 7:30 you had a S&W M&P with a chrome lined barrel? Didn't know that they made them. A.B.C.= ALWAYS BUY COLT!