AR pistol build

Faktory 47

mmason3

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I built my first AR15 back in the beginning of 2016 and was proud of the frankenrifle that I had forced life into. I went cheap and I've found over the last year and some change going cheap is not the way to build a rifle. This time when I built my AR pistol, chambered in 5.56, I took the time to research companies and actually invest in a reliable platform instead of just putting pieces together to make the whole. One thing I will say that helped was speaking with friends that have done this before and listening to advice from others. This pistol is the culmination of what I have learned over the last 18 months. While I didn't go into building with the mindset of "spare no expense" I tried to be as reasonable as possible and find quality at a fair price. I kept myself to a strict budget of no more than $1000 and I came out with what I think is a very solid build that I have no problem trusting with my life or those lives around me. I kept a build list on an Excel spreadsheet to help keep me on budget and give me a practical way to keep up with parts. I'll share the list and the pictures of the complete build. There are some items on the list that I have a "$0" next to, those were either gifted to me or parts that I had around. This was what kept me under my budget. Thanks for looking and let me know if you have any questions! Thanks!

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Very nice! I need to go through my list of parts on my first build (AR9), I just found what I thought were good parts at reasonable pricing!
 
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Looks good. But how’d you get a lower for $7?
 
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mmason3

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Looks good. But how’d you get a lower for $7?
Back in June PSA was running one hell of a deal. I bought an M&P Shield 9mm for something like $299-$350 and got 3 house brand “blew” lowers. The lowers weren’t born at all, at least to my untrained eye. I looked up the street price of the M&P Shield as if I were to just purchase that alone and divided the difference by 3 to get the price of each lower individually. There was enough of a difference in price that the lowers weren’t technically free.
 
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