Thread: If I wanted to buy a basic but sound AR15 what would be a good start?

If you want to shoot with WSRA, most of the a cat offerings will put you in open class.

If you're ok with that, get a 14.5" NEA. Get a decent 2-7 optic (hey you're shooting in open, milk it), a decent mount, and maybe invest in a better trigger. You can probably get all of that for around the $2.5k mark if you shop around. I've got mine set up like that, and with hornady steel case it'll shoot under MOA.

The NEA is probably still the best deal going at the moment. The trigger isn't always flash (on the early ones, it may be better now), but the rest is pretty well put together, and digit really stands behind the product.

If you really want to shoot service class, it's slightly harder to find one in a-cat. Doable if you shop around, but not quite as easy. Optics are more limited too in service.