Thread: Ar15, should i buy now, or wait?

Originally Posted by gimp

It's unnecessary to have carbon fibre for an AR stock, seems like a silly choice of material.

I have made a butt A2 style I think for a customer. He wanted to shift the weight forward so that he could hold it in a more comfortable place.

Originally Posted by Nibblet

Unnecessary to have a pistol grip but still its an option. However not a silly one.
What's the reasoning behind thinking it's a silly choice of material? Think it is more targeted at being a niche market option.

It doesn't do the job any better than other, way cheaper options like molded plastic, and you'd have to be insane to pay $640 for that stock


It's not really unnecessary to have a pistol grip on an AR since that's what it was designed to have and everything else is a shitty half-assed bandaid to get around incredibly stupid legal restrictions

Originally Posted by mikee

Nah, (assuming you imported all the bits your self in one go. $35 US for LPK, 89 for stock, 89 for stripped lower, 40 grip, 89 for a2 buffertube kit, 110 for JP trigger and 60 for JP hammer + another 40 for freight (cheapest "Good" trigger + 30bucks for permits
total of $582US which is more than 640 for the lower.
My point is although its expensive at least it does not look manky

I import the stuff separately with the cheap shipping so I can skip gst. Even if it did cost an extra 50 bucks or so, it would be more worthwhile.

Originally Posted by gimp

It doesn't do the job any better than other, way cheaper options like molded plastic, and you'd have to be insane to pay $640 for that stock


It's not really unnecessary to have a pistol grip on an AR since that's what it was designed to have and everything else is a shitty half-assed bandaid to get around incredibly stupid legal restrictions

This. The way I see it, if I need a piece of shit thumb hole stock, and they are all peices of shit, to wrangle around some legal dumbfuckery, I want something that is cheap and I'm not gonna care about scratching breaking or denting the shit out of it.

But buy what you want, I'm just a prick that likes to be vocal when I think something's stupid.

Even if it was made of fiberglass, the labor is probably what cost the most in the building of that stock.

The cheapest would be an injection moulded stock like Choate machine tools produces.

The initial cost of the mould would cost a few thousands though...

Friwi

Originally Posted by Konev

would love to see a laminated thumbhole.

They exist, at least one has been on trademe few weeks back. Some manufacturer salso does a matching laminated fore end and the whole thing looks quite nice, Boyds and Ironwoods do them.

Mate I think the C/F stock looks awesome would almost consider putting one on my E cat just to ride a sand bag better

For $800 you could buy a pretty nice shooting rest system that you can then use with other rifles, but hey its your money.

Didn't end up buying one, will wait for awhile and see what plays out, thanks for the advice