So there's some guy in the PX with an M110 clone built off an ECR I think. Doesn't matter really because any SR25 can be modified to be any number of configurations for $1000 or less, depending on what needs to be done. A little more if you include refinish and engraving.
So how does a new factory rifle with all current upgrades worth $4500 turn into a $12,000 rifle AFTER 1. swapping out the handguard for an older, "lesser" model and 2. changing the gas block/flash hider to accept the older and again "lesser" suppressor, 3. some Cerakote and engraving?
(Same guy has AK's for over $4000 too --Polytech, whatever, no AK is worth more than a few hundred but "I just turned 18's!" and gang bangers keep the price higher but I have to wonder who is buying $4000 AK's).
Another guy on here took an early 1990's SR25, match grade, 24"bbl., and FUCKED IT UP "cloning" a goddamn M110. It WAS a $10,000 rifle if you just left it alone. But he couldn't leave it alone. There's another one on here too that obviously has that type of lower. WTF?
Am I missing something here? Am I the dumbfuck? Because if I need to go turn that SR25 into a wet dream for some fanboy I'll do it if it means I can replace it AND get another rifle in the process!
FWIW, KAC offered me a REAL M110, a new unfired and properly engraved one in the deployment case with mags and other shit including the scope for that almost exact price. Only things it didn't include were the PVS30 and the suppressor. But even then I knew the current and most up to date SR25's + kit are better (and for sure the best bang for buck SR25 KAC has ever made).
I think if more people knew how the military selected weapons and why companies stop making 'em that way after the contract expires that clone shit would be a lot less appealing, but maybe I'm so disconnected from this asshattery that I just don't get it.
So how does a new factory rifle with all current upgrades worth $4500 turn into a $12,000 rifle AFTER 1. swapping out the handguard for an older, "lesser" model and 2. changing the gas block/flash hider to accept the older and again "lesser" suppressor, 3. some Cerakote and engraving?
(Same guy has AK's for over $4000 too --Polytech, whatever, no AK is worth more than a few hundred but "I just turned 18's!" and gang bangers keep the price higher but I have to wonder who is buying $4000 AK's).
Another guy on here took an early 1990's SR25, match grade, 24"bbl., and FUCKED IT UP "cloning" a goddamn M110. It WAS a $10,000 rifle if you just left it alone. But he couldn't leave it alone. There's another one on here too that obviously has that type of lower. WTF?
Am I missing something here? Am I the dumbfuck? Because if I need to go turn that SR25 into a wet dream for some fanboy I'll do it if it means I can replace it AND get another rifle in the process!
FWIW, KAC offered me a REAL M110, a new unfired and properly engraved one in the deployment case with mags and other shit including the scope for that almost exact price. Only things it didn't include were the PVS30 and the suppressor. But even then I knew the current and most up to date SR25's + kit are better (and for sure the best bang for buck SR25 KAC has ever made).
I think if more people knew how the military selected weapons and why companies stop making 'em that way after the contract expires that clone shit would be a lot less appealing, but maybe I'm so disconnected from this asshattery that I just don't get it.
