As many of you know and passed along guidance about a Grendel and the ballistics of the round and some of the good and bad things of the round. I have managed to in my opinion keep costs way lower than expected to make a shooter so I figured I would show a recap of what I did and how I did it. I started with all numbers are approximated since PSA is out of stock of everything now and I can't pull exact numbers
Blemished PSA stripped upper flat top and lower with a total together of approximately 100 Search results for: 'blemishes'
Blemished Lower build kit with magpul trigger guard and pistol grip 30
Blemished Blackhawk collapsible butt stock, buffer, and buffer spring 30
Blemished Bolt carrier group 130
Blemished upper build kit 25
Total 315
At that point I picked up a cheap vice and vice cushions from lows for maybe 50 bucks with some bolts and bolted it to an old dresser that I use as a little work bench. The rest took a great deal of patience and just enjoying being with my daughters for some good old daddy daughter time. As you can see in the pics I did utilize my Ipad to watch youtube from a link on Ar15.com from start to finish on the lower. It was a great resource so we could pause and complete a task then move on. It should be noted as well that the only thing I did on the rifle was start the roll pins, torque screws down and put the springs for the trigger in, everything else a 6 AND 9 YEAR OLD GIRLS DID ALL BY THEMSELVES. The pictures will show one of my 6 year old hitting the shit out of my hand holding a punch while we were putting in the trigger guard. And finally a functioning lower.
I had to wait a couple months as the wife cut off all gun money due to Christmas and the deal was whatever money I was given I could use on guns. So now I have picked up the final components to finish out and will post pics once we get it done.
Douglas 1 in 8 twist 18 inch barrel with Mk12 contour and rifle length gas tube reamed in 5.56 match from compass lake engineering 275
UTG super slim free float hand guard ***** 100
Low profile gas block 10
Total 700
While I know I can probably catch grief about the hand guard I would like to point out that this is a 6 and 9 year olds rifle and we didn't need the best we just needed accurate. At the price of the UTG I am able to spend good money on glass and hopefully upgrade the trigger to a more consistent softer pull. I have looked at a 10x SWFA MOA/MOA and the 4.5x18 Bushnell AR as they are about the same price through SWFA so hopefully we have a shooter for approximately 1000 with glass. Also, a point I am sure will be asked, why did I go with the AR platform versus a 700 tactical in 223. The length of pull was to long for the girls since they are danty and both girls have been shooting a AR "style" .22lr Mossberg 715 for approximately 2 years now. I am hoping that some of the shorter ranged matches my oldest will be able to jump into this summer. I may need to do some drills though, we went deer hunting last weekend and she struggled and couldn't find a deer at lowlight and I had to kill it before it walked away. So she isn't as comfortable as I would like her when it comes to finding targets in the scope. I will post follow on pics when I get the upper assembled, hopefully after the new year. It has been a great family journey building a rifle and honestly great fun while saving a ton of money in regards to buying something that was prebuilt.
Blemished PSA stripped upper flat top and lower with a total together of approximately 100 Search results for: 'blemishes'
Blemished Lower build kit with magpul trigger guard and pistol grip 30
Blemished Blackhawk collapsible butt stock, buffer, and buffer spring 30
Blemished Bolt carrier group 130
Blemished upper build kit 25
Total 315
At that point I picked up a cheap vice and vice cushions from lows for maybe 50 bucks with some bolts and bolted it to an old dresser that I use as a little work bench. The rest took a great deal of patience and just enjoying being with my daughters for some good old daddy daughter time. As you can see in the pics I did utilize my Ipad to watch youtube from a link on Ar15.com from start to finish on the lower. It was a great resource so we could pause and complete a task then move on. It should be noted as well that the only thing I did on the rifle was start the roll pins, torque screws down and put the springs for the trigger in, everything else a 6 AND 9 YEAR OLD GIRLS DID ALL BY THEMSELVES. The pictures will show one of my 6 year old hitting the shit out of my hand holding a punch while we were putting in the trigger guard. And finally a functioning lower.
I had to wait a couple months as the wife cut off all gun money due to Christmas and the deal was whatever money I was given I could use on guns. So now I have picked up the final components to finish out and will post pics once we get it done.
Douglas 1 in 8 twist 18 inch barrel with Mk12 contour and rifle length gas tube reamed in 5.56 match from compass lake engineering 275
UTG super slim free float hand guard ***** 100
Low profile gas block 10
Total 700
While I know I can probably catch grief about the hand guard I would like to point out that this is a 6 and 9 year olds rifle and we didn't need the best we just needed accurate. At the price of the UTG I am able to spend good money on glass and hopefully upgrade the trigger to a more consistent softer pull. I have looked at a 10x SWFA MOA/MOA and the 4.5x18 Bushnell AR as they are about the same price through SWFA so hopefully we have a shooter for approximately 1000 with glass. Also, a point I am sure will be asked, why did I go with the AR platform versus a 700 tactical in 223. The length of pull was to long for the girls since they are danty and both girls have been shooting a AR "style" .22lr Mossberg 715 for approximately 2 years now. I am hoping that some of the shorter ranged matches my oldest will be able to jump into this summer. I may need to do some drills though, we went deer hunting last weekend and she struggled and couldn't find a deer at lowlight and I had to kill it before it walked away. So she isn't as comfortable as I would like her when it comes to finding targets in the scope. I will post follow on pics when I get the upper assembled, hopefully after the new year. It has been a great family journey building a rifle and honestly great fun while saving a ton of money in regards to buying something that was prebuilt.
