Reeder Custom Guns - Some AR advice.

Looking around at my surplus I focus on the .300 AR I toyed with, a stls. 16" FT. Boy has the market bottomed on those! Then I also have the nice HBAR A2 I built just before Hillary scared me totally out of my wits. I might get close to my cost back on that one.

What does the market hold on those guns, they seem to be everywhere. Suddenly everybody is an "expert" on them. I have close to $650 each in them. Hold onto them or test the waters? They are really nice but everyone is so picky as to specific options and it's a buyers market. Local dealer had some on special promotion at $450! A couple dozen. Not fancy, but cheap, no frills, shorter AR's that functioned!

I might try to move one, that leaves us two AR's. Or just sit on them. I'm not in a mind to totally lose my shirt. I dunno.

Just thinking out loud, dangerous for me.

- No text -

Not everyone had them other than the occasional SP-1 Colt. I was busy playing with the Mini-14 and such, until a lot of surplus parts and receivers came on the market. I must have built two dozen back then. I think I built 3-4 "ultimate" AR's that I wanted just for myself. One special CAR 11"+5.5" HB A2 style that I sold for 3X what I had in it, thanks Bill C.!

I've never looked back on the AR's. Roman has one special one he built and we will probably keep one of the other two. I may see what the market will do but I don't have high hopes. It will take another Socialist Scare to spike prices now.

As I get older I am less fond of firearms that sling my brass in the bushes. Actually slimming down all long guns I can within reason. I figure a man needs 3-4 rifles (not counting .22's) and about the same shotguns, maybe even ML if that floats your boat. Then maybe 3-4 fun, "just cause you like 'em", models.... That's how it gets out of hand.

combat shoots in '73 with the Colt or Bushmaster. In '75 I switched to the Armalite and never went back to the Colt or the Bushmaster. The Bushmaster was pretty crude back then.

- No text -

[image]

But I never got to see it. Much later he got some type of "Expeditionary Carbine" he talked real high about. Never saw it either.

in England. Great gun. We shot in combat matches about every 3 weekend. I used the AMT Longslide 45, a Remington 1100 and the Armalite. I won 41 straight matches with them. Then an older gentleman talked me into buying a Colt AR and a Colt Gvt. Model in 1981. I started using the Colts and lost 10 matches in a row and lost them badly. I dumped the Colts and went back to the Armalite and AMT. I still use the AMT 45 in combat matches about once a year. I don't win many of them at all but it isn't the gun's fault.

15s. Today there are over 200. Probably half of them will go under before the end of the year as the market is flooded with them and more coming every day. Just in the last month, 4 big companies have announced they are coming out with their own AR. My gut feeling is if the gun is special to you, then keep it, if it is just sitting in the safe gathering dust and you have a lusting for a new gun, then sell the AR and buy the new gun. We have several ARs. Colleen just bought an AR-10, just because. But if I got the hots for something new, one of the ARs would go. They are just a gun, a utilitarian rifle. No class, no character, just a gun. They can always be replaced.

I think you're invested too deep to recoup. Or at least too deep to recoup quickly. Wait for all the sales to dry up. Like you said anybody can build one for $450 right now. For $550 you can build a nice one. Wait 'til next year maybe.

I'm still reeling about it. God Himself turned the tide, heard the cries of his people. Keep crying.

Honest Injun, that's the only reason I ran out and bought that last one. But it's a good one. I'll not lose money unless I find something I want really bad and can get pretty close.

You got the President you voted for and a new rifle.
I'd call that a win win.

- No text -

swing back and forth over the span of my life time. Until the military switches to a different type of rifle, I would hang on to the ones you have. Like Gary says, they are only a gun, but....what if??? If you need 'em you got 'em. I look for prices to really drop over the next year. I am already seeing prices on really good m4 and m16 (sans auto functions) on sale. It might be time to double down and pick up a couple more. I am for each of my kids and each of my grandkids and my wife and,,, and,,,, LOL. Just the musings of an old man, but I think you need to hang on to these type of guns. Remember, with all the craziness on the left, you never know when you might need them. Also, now is becoming a great time to load up on ammo other than .22 lr and .22 mags.... Even .218 Bee ammo is becoming available as well as unloaded brass.....

- No text -

He had found some old ammo I had loaded maybe 20 yrs. ago with soft points. It would not function the 10.5" shorty AR gas system, too light. Loaded long ago I noted trimmed cases and Hornady JSPs 50, 45 gr., who knows, and loaded with what? Likely for a Contender project eons ago.

Low and behold the longer full length AR shucked them just fine without skipping a beat. He went on and on about how easy it was for him to hit with the "rifle" AR.

That likely shut that option down.

Out of the Army. Great gun for killing people, but I was out of that business and there were too many real guns out there for shooting animals and targets. I've changed my thinking since then and the world has changed so when Obama got in office I bought one for more than twice what I can now.
I don't regret it, it's helped with peace of mind, I'd like to get another one for my Grandson at the low prices. Funny thing wile I've been typing this Beau came in and got the AR to go shoot some of the howling coyotes out back.

powered by my little forum