This is the custom built AR-15 she had made up for me.
Valentine's Day can be a little different in our household because we have two rules for
Valentine's gifts.
They must be either:
1) A 'Traditional' Valentines gift.
or
2) Have something red.
As you might imagine, the ever-indulgent wife tends to use Rule #2 for my gifts and this year was no exception
This is the custom built AR-15 she had made up for me.
As you can see, it qualifies under Rule #2. Since there aren't many red parts available she had the guy
who built up the rifle paint in the 'FIRE' in red. He did such a good job it looks like the factory did it.
For a sense of scale, the knife is a Benchmade 710 and the cat is big. The gun has a 20" barrel and
as you can see Buddy Cat is even bigger.
Mostly DPMS parts. The lower is CMMG due to time constraints and that's a Harris bipod.
I'll add optics later but wanted some iron sights so I could shoot for now. The trigger is a fitted
match trigger and is nice!
Want one like it? Gary Moore of Moore Outdoors is the man who did the deed.
All right. Got up to the range and got it tried out. I did the 'Mili-Tec 20' (actually 25 since I was doing the 'match barrel break-in' too). Basically you clean the gun, pull a Mili-Tec 1 soaked boresnake down the barrel (nearly impossible before the first round), shoot 1 round, pull the boresnake, repeat with an occasional additional bit of Mili-Tec 1 on the boresnake. The 'match barrel break-in' is where you shoot 1, clean the barrel, repeat for 25 rounds, then clean after every 10 rounds for the rest of the first 100 rounds. I went ahead and did this. You could actually feel the barrel break-in when pulling the boresnake through. As I said, the first time I was afraid it was going to break. By the end it was tight but moving. I was also getting the sights roughly zeroed in at the same time. Being an indoor range it's only about 25 yards so when it warms up I'll have to re-do the zero at 50 yards. And that's just until I replace the standard iron sights with optics. Going to take some time to pick the right optics (and I need to save the money for them) so that's why the iron sights for now.
The ever-indulgent wife tried 5 rounds. She likes it! With the bipod to take the weight of the barrel and the stock at
it's shortest setting she had no trouble handling it. Essentially no recoil and I noticed that there's surprisingly
little muzzle flash - just about the size of a golf ball.
This is nowhere near as good as the gun can shoot - just how well I did with the iron sights. It's a 10-shot group and the
two flyers are entirely my fault.
Bottom line: It is just as nice as it looks!