I’m trying to copy the handling and distance abilities of my bolt guns, thus I went with a Strike Eagle 5-25X56 on the AR conversion.
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What kind of upper is that? That's solid! It doesn't look janky like most .22LR AR uppers. Are you running a can, or is the barrel just that big in diameter? What's the specs?
Its a 9mm upper with cross machine tool 17 inch arca rail, 18 inch m40 profile 1/14 twist ar blank machined to accept to the carrier and bolt, chambered for eley contact, barrel is tucked inside the rail just enough to hide it and protect it, but it gets ran with the can 100% of the time.
Who makes the receiver and .22LR conversion kit you used? Does it use standard AR barrels & nuts?
Upper receiver is a 9mm rock river upper, and its a ar15 barrel blank machined to work with the barrel nut and cmmg kit, the black your seeing is the barrel itself.
Who did the barrel & nut build? I'm curious because this interests me into possibly building something using a similar upper. I found that Arms Republic makes a billet 9mm upper receiver that is damn-near identical in design to that one, and for a reasonable price. Did you just use the CMMG kit minus the front piece that normally fits into a .223 barrel, or did you have to do any mods to it?
A local SOT to me did all the barrel work and put the upper together, the forend had to have the anti rotation tabs ground off to work with the upper because the 9mm uppers are thicker up front, but the ejection port is the perfect size to prevent rounds getting back in the action. Its a standard cmmg kit just without the adapter or collar for use with a 223 chamber. The carrier rails just lock into the barrel. He showed me the first one he built and ran last year at matches and I was impressed with the idea of it for a trainer because I shoot alot of gas gun matches with centerfire and over the last few years got into rimfire and this allows me to shoot more matches and get good training in. It has the same trigger, grip, and stock as my center fire match rifle and the same rail so it works perfectly. He's started to make more of them if
If he's interested in making more of these barrels that are pre-cut and headspaced to use the CMMG kit, and these billet 9mm uppers (doing a lot of research tonight, I like the Arms Republic ones because they're available and affordable) and a nice quality barrel (with 1:9 twist for subsonics) I'd be interested in buying one... Not sure if they are the same specs (for headspacing) as the RRA upper you have, but if he was willing, I'd even be willing to buy the upper, CMMG kit, and handguard, and send it all to him to have it fitted and headspaced, and tell him the barrel specs I'm looking for.
Yeah, I know the routine. I build all my own AR's and source parts for all my bolt-action builds before taking them to my local smith. He's not much into AR's or rimfires, so that's why I wouldn't ask him to do that. I really like the looks of the 9mm upper, plus, the smaller port is a plus for keeping out debris, and brass from flipping back around into the port. A Bentz Match chamber is really all that's necessary, since I shoot CCI SV. No, I'm pretty long ways from VA.
BoreBuddy has a good selection of Bentz chambered barrels available. 1:12" twist for the heavier bullets.
Your extractor cut looks a little different, yeah the idea of one less peice moveing around was the idea, trying to squeeze as much accuracy out of this thing as I can.
