Home assembled AR-15 from mail order sources…
DPMS lower
CMMG 14.5″ Government profile upper, mid-length gas system, micro block
pinned/welded Yankee Hill Phantom Flash Hider
Timney Target Trigger
Magpul UBR Buttstock
Magpul MOE Handgrip
Magpul MOE Triggerguard
Troy Industries 13.8″ MRF RX Tactical Rail
Eotech A65.1 Holographic Sight
DPMS Front and Rear (co-witness) Rail Sights
Magpul AFG2 Angled Fore Grip
Magpul XT Rail Covers
Inexpensive no-name flashlight mount
Fenix LD25 1 inch flashlight
Magpul Windowed AR-15 30 round magazines
Magpul Single Point Sling (not shown)
I installed/assembled everything. The Troy Rail was a bit of an adventure. I had to cut off the ring and omega spring assembly with a dremel tool due to the welded on flash hider. That wasn’t too bad, kind of bead blasted part of the upper finish inadvertently with the powderized aluminum spray – scratched the receiver also when the dremel slipped as well… but it was the front handguard retainer that was the unexpected pain in the ass, it was practically welded on, it would not BUDGE … ended up cutting it off with the dremel also!
Heavy gun @ 9.5 pounds as you see it in this vid, but exactly what I set out to build – a short, accurate tactical carbine for use in real world WROL defense, like after a natural disaster – not a lightweight fantasy end of the world wander the wasteland post-apocalypse gun. I have a lighter AR-15 as well, in case I do have to wander the post-apocalyptic wasteland! LOL 🙂 I’ll do a vid review of it later, doing some upgrades to it right now – its in pieces!
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The magpul Ubr stock is nice but, just for looks in my opinion, my magpul cts stock cost half the price and is just as good if not better
Nice AR but those magpul AFGs GOD I hate those! Lol
If you would have gone with a keymod frowned you could have saved yourself a little weight and still had the length you wanted
Civilians may be concerned about weight. Weight distribution perhaps. Military, you have what you need to get the job done. Maybe heavy, maybe not. Depends on your leadership or physical capabilities. Either way, you get used to the weight. 240 Bravo w/tripod and considerable ammo on top of gear etc. M4/AR weight barebones is just under 7lbs. 3lbs extra… FYI: 240 Bravo alone weighs just under 30lbs. Just saying as far as military goes.
My brother is a soldier and works with a bomb dog. After his third tour weight of what he carries is critical. He goes on missions for days at a time sometimes weeks. He won't put rail covers on his m4 because he says ounces add up. So when he has to carry enough food and water to sustain himself and his working dog id say people have the right to complain about the weight as much as they want.
Only bitches complain about the weight. Yet you got women in the military hiking with a ruck sag and an light machine gun. So fellows man up
Why do people get so butthurt about weight. My m4 in derkaderkastan was 10 pounds flat with a mag in. I had the same angled grip, DBAL behind the front site post and light on the right. An Acog and buis round that off. I never thought it was very heavy and thought the added weight up front really helped with recoil.Â
One word – HEAVY!!!!!!!
What rail is on there and what length barrel
I love this rifle, I took your idea and put it to work on my JRC 9mm….rifle length rail, 512, MI flip sights. The only thing I didn't do was the URB the JRC was already heavy enough.
Nice build, one of the nicest I've seen. You put some though in that.
a free float rail can stretch out to the length of your barrel since it doesn't touch anything passed the receiver.
Absolutely beautiful gun! Nice job Man!
How much does this whole setup cost you, like the gun and attatchments?
Makes me want to post about my CMMG upper and lower build with full magpull access. and Trigicon ACOG sight build i made. A nice $3,500 rifle. It's my baby.
Nice choice with the flashlight as far as not going with too much light. So many people think more light is better, but for home defense and if you happen to have white walls…you will wash out your optics with too much light against white walls. Nice build! I am building up something very similar.
at 300 yrds its not self defense. its murder.
Forget CR123 batteries. Way too exotic in a pinch. I have been preaching the same about AA batteries. Great video.
I dont recall, its changed so much, dang AR15s are like freaking Lego sets, you can swap and mix and match and I have 4 of them. I would have to guess that all told, optic included I spent over 1200 clams, but that got me exactly what I wanted … at that time.
I ordered most of the parts from midwayusa, cmmg, and jabtech.
Thanks man, my CMMG upper uses .750, your upper may vary though
Hey I'm attempting to sorta kinda recreate this rifle but I'm not sure which diameter you used for the piston system?.. .750 or .936? Thanks bud, sweet rifle man.
Could somebody recommend somewhere I could order something like this but more basic ? I'm looking to buy my first rifle and I think I'm gonna go CMMG .22 AR but I'm having trouble finding somewhere to start.
whats the budget for something like this
Thats it, I'm building a rifle like this one. I'm in love!
Absolutely beautiful!!
Excellent.
Have you considered a folding front and rear iron sight set up?
I'm not familiar with DPMS front sights, but if they are anything like the standard A2/M4 front sight base, his sight is oriented the correct way…
I love the "Obama hates this rifle" annotation
turn your front sight around!
I know it may look a little odd but what if you flipped the front sight in the other direction? I will place the the knob where you want it but will it affect the performance of the sight?
Im not sure you know or not, but I want my sig556 to look this way with the rail extending to the end like yours. Do they make a rail for the sig556 that is 13.8 or whatever it has to be. Thanks
WOW!! That's one of the nicest AR builds iv ever seen, Good work.
Looks like your pretty much set all you need is a robber or a disaster.
Out of all the custom AR builds I've seen on YouTube (which is a lot!) yours is still my favorite.
and I just noticed that IS a Troy on the video. My fault.
Thanks for the quick reply! Either way, I'm sure it still did it's job when you squeezed the trigger. I haven't done much to my DPMS, but I really like the idea of that full length rail with an AFG. I don't know much about rails, personally, but I hear you can get a full length Troy rail, and they're pretty light.
That MagPul buttstock and the long rail added alot of weight. The buttstock is surprisingly heavy. I swapped it out for an ACE SOCOM buttstock. I still have that rail on it, but I'm going to get rid of it too, go with a shorter lighter one… alot of money spent just to learn a lesson I could have figured out by looking up weights online. OUCH!
Beautiful weapon. Where did all the weight come from? The rail? You really don't have all that much on your rifle, and absolutely nothing unnecessary.
i see ur flash light is using fenix ld25 😀
Very nice setup, I have a similar setup only in FDE. Mine has the CMMG 16 inch barrel with the A2 front sight 1/9 twist 5.56 and a spikes tactical nickle boron coated bcg, bcm "gun fighter" charging handle. It has the DPMS lower with the MOE treatment
Ahhh thats nice