AR Photo Only Thread

[Beavis]

Question for you AR fellas... just got my first one, its a Sig 516 with 16" barrel, 7 twist. I picked up a couple of boxes of the frontier ammunition loaded with 55gr hornady spire point. On the box it states muzzle velocity as 3240fps, I know these numbers can sometimes be a bit of a stretch and are usually based on a long barrel so I chronographed my load using my old Shooting Chrony and was only getting around 2730fps. I expected some drop with the shorter barrel but surely they would be going a bit quicker than that? Maybe my chrony is playing up? It did throw an error on quite a few shots but seemed consistent on the shots it did pick up. Any thoughts?

@Ryan_Songhurst a lot of factory .223 ammo is loaded pretty soft. My 14.5" rig does 2850fps with my handloads and closer to 2900 with Belmont bulk soft points. I found that the Nosler soft points I use in my handloads work really well on animals at that velocity. Any faster and I reckon they wouldn't penetrate so well.

[Ryan_Songhurst]

Im gonna go punch that info into ballistic app today and shoot it at 3-400yds and see if its telling the truth

[Square22]

Im gonna go punch that info into ballistic app today and shoot it at 3-400yds and see if its telling the truth

If it is that SIG that was just on here for sale it was cut down from the factory 16" to 15" when the suppressor was put on. So the velocity will be similar to a standard m4 carbine (14.5") - around 2700fps so your chrono is probably spot on.

[planenutz]

After fondling that SIG you now have Ryan, I had serious gun-envy so I went and built up my own AR - just because I could. My objective was to have something not too heavy so I was aiming to bring it in under 3.5 kg, ready to roll. I nearly achieved that - it's 3.55 kg ready to roll.

Aero lower, 16" SS Ballistic Advantage barrel, GBC Skeleton Upper, Free-float Carbon Hand-guard.

The scope is a temporary affair as I ran out of money to buy something to go on it. I just happened to have this Z3 spare, so it will do for now. The rifle is accurate (touching at 100m) and just simply great fun to shoot. Don't know why I left it so long to get one!

Unfortunately my daughter LOVES it... so I don't see me getting to use it much.

[223nut]

That's prrrrrrrretty with the blued bronze accents

[planenutz]

That's prrrrrrrretty with the blued bronze accents

Gotta have some BLING.



Actually I have to give credit to Ken at NZAR15 for the blue anodised parts - it was his idea. Bloody helpful bloke although a visit to his shop cost me a fortune. Haha.

[Max Headroom]

If those anodised parts were pink, she'd have stolen altogether.

[planenutz]

If those anodised parts were pink, she'd have stolen altogether.

Oh you better believe it!!!!

[Ernie]

@planenutz youve just tipped me over the edge with the side charge upper. Thats the bank account buggered

[planenutz]

@planenutz youve just tipped me over the edge with the side charge upper. Thats the bank account buggered

Actually we can both blame James at Gun Supplies in Rotorua. He allowed me to hold several different rigs and compare notes, which tipped me over the edge as well. He was very helpful, very patient and I have no hesitation recommending him or dealing with him again in future. They provided me with an excellent service.

You realise you will need to have a small modification carried out to the BCG, yeah?

[Luke556]

Actually we can both blame James at Gun Supplies in Rotorua. He allowed me to hold several different rigs and compare notes, which tipped me over the edge as well. He was very helpful, very patient and I have no hesitation recommending him or dealing with him again in future. They provided me with an excellent service.

You realise you will need to have a small modification carried out to the BCG, yeah?

I like the look of that side charger - whats the mod to the BCG you speak off ?
Whats the pin in the back of the upper for ?
How do they go without the case deflector ?

[omegaspeedy]

Had a parts box (half a gun) and thought it was time to build another. It's turned out pretty good in the end. 10.5" contract overrun barrel (shoots bloody well actually), Bootlegs guard, Armaworx AGB, a very sweet trigger from a great dude on TM, a nice Daniel Defence BCG and long Armaworx stock to keep compliance.

[Square22]

Had a parts box (half a gun) and thought it was time to build another. It's turned out pretty good in the end. 10.5" contract overrun barrel (shoots bloody well actually), Bootlegs guard, Armaworx AGB, a very sweet trigger from a great dude on TM, a nice Daniel Defence BCG and long Armaworx stock to keep compliance.

Are they the barrels on trademe? do you know who makes them?

[omegaspeedy]

Are they the barrels on trademe? do you know who makes them?

Yes the Trademe barrels. They are pretty good actually, found them acurrate and chrome lined and well finished. Threading and crown properly done. Dude says something about an overrun on a contract. Could be vintage barrels as they don’t have M4 feedramps. I just carefully opened them up to M4 as per a YouTube vid. No big deal.

[dogmatix]

The seller of the barrels is fairly important to the running of this forum.

And yes they are good barrels. I bought an 11.5" barrel from him.