IsNotAYahoo
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I build a ton of ARs, and I love my first AR: A PSA, and I love my custom $4,500 3-gun rifle I built. ( My favorite is a sub 5 lb. built on a polymer lower from KE Arms, with a 14.5" p&w pencil barrel & a carbon fiber hand-guard... not a practical gun, but also not the expensive one.)
Ultimately if it is your first AR (and especially if it is not your first gun) a simple PSA or Anderson is fine. I am particular to the PSAs myself as I know a few of the folks who's companies were acquired over the years and they aren't the type to make poor quality stuff.
I highly recommend you get a mid-length gas system. Carbine is fine for military arms that may see tens of thousands of rounds, but us normies are unlikely to ever shoot-out a barrell (+/_ 10k rounds depending on barrel material.)
If you want to be fancy I would recommend to add an A5 buffer system with an H2 buffer and a nice trigger (I like LaRue as he makes a great trigger for under $100, and he does it just to mess with Geissele, which are also amazing) and a free float mlok handguard. Faxon makes a 16" "gunner" style barrel that is both light and rigid, add a referb vortex red dot from AAOptics (if it breaks you get a new one from vortex) and you have a fine weapon useful for many things.
Of course all of that is just me. I have a Ranger to build it as much as I like to drive it, same as my guns, house, computer, etc. Noting can stay stock around me... I love to tinker too much!
If you have questions let me know. This is kinda my jam.
Ultimately if it is your first AR (and especially if it is not your first gun) a simple PSA or Anderson is fine. I am particular to the PSAs myself as I know a few of the folks who's companies were acquired over the years and they aren't the type to make poor quality stuff.
I highly recommend you get a mid-length gas system. Carbine is fine for military arms that may see tens of thousands of rounds, but us normies are unlikely to ever shoot-out a barrell (+/_ 10k rounds depending on barrel material.)
If you want to be fancy I would recommend to add an A5 buffer system with an H2 buffer and a nice trigger (I like LaRue as he makes a great trigger for under $100, and he does it just to mess with Geissele, which are also amazing) and a free float mlok handguard. Faxon makes a 16" "gunner" style barrel that is both light and rigid, add a referb vortex red dot from AAOptics (if it breaks you get a new one from vortex) and you have a fine weapon useful for many things.
Of course all of that is just me. I have a Ranger to build it as much as I like to drive it, same as my guns, house, computer, etc. Noting can stay stock around me... I love to tinker too much!
If you have questions let me know. This is kinda my jam.