AR 10 recommendations

If you are planning to use it for longer range shooting then you really need to build it.

Those guns both come with a 16-18” barrels. Those will work but you will eventually want a longer barrel out a better trigger. I have the Magpul prs stock on mine. I had a .308 barrel and ended up putting a 6.5cm barrel on it (everything is interchangeable except the gas block). It’s a 22” barrel.

Word of warning, these are heavy guns especially with the scope and magazine with Ammo. Mine with the suppressor and mag is 15lbs. You can definitely cut the weight down but I didn’t care about that with mine

A little more info about the build
DPMS lower
Aero upper
Ballistic Advantage 22” 6.5 cm barrel
Midwest industries rifle length hand guard
Magpul PRS
Rock Island two stage trigger
Meopta Meopro 4.5-14x50
Burris extreme rings

Couple friends just bought their uppers and lowers from palmetto state armory for less than 600$ I think. Of course, this is bare bones and they plan on changing a bunch but it’s a starting point

How are yall setting the headspace on the rifles yall are buildimg?

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I believe we have the same barrel on ours.

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Aero has a partnership with BA, bought a completed upper without BCG and charger. I almost positive from everything I read before buying that BA supplies Aero with barrels for the completed uppers. So ya, we should have the same exact barrel.

As far as headspace goes DSFT, I won't really be checking as the factory installed the barrel and headspace being off enough to affect anything is very, very rare. If I run into problems, I'll have to buy a go/nogo/field set.

Only other thing I was thinking about was getting a Viper 6.5x20 50mm, so I can really dial in around 500. Right now I'm just running a 3-9x 40 Leupold.

I own an Armalite. Love the way it shoots. Love the materials they use. Love the original.

I see a lot of replies about building my own. I have never done that. All my other rifles were bought off the shelf.

Is building one something a newbie could do? Im sure I could watch a bunch of YouTube videos. Hopefully it wont blow up in my face the first time I shoot it.

I would like to learn how to do it. I guess I could assemble it and let a gunsmith look it over to make sure its right. I used Circlewood Gun Shop here in Tuscaloosa...

What’s your budget?

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I own an Armalite

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I have an Armalite Super SASS I got through a trade. I love it. It has an adjustable gas block for shooting suppressed. I have a Burris XTRII 3-15-50 in it. The trigger is great as well. Also comes with PRI gas buster CH.It’s a tack driver. Stock photo below.

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Bapple mentioned the M&P10, but after reading the review there are a few parts on that gun that are not interchangeable... will that matter or are they just parts that I would not ever need to change?

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Which parts specifically are proprietary? My guess is that most of the proprietary parts are low-wear parts that you will never wear out anyway. Keep in mind it's a 308 so unless you're ole money bags and can shoot it thousands of times, I highly doubt you'll wear out any part.

As far as simple things like grip, stock, trigger, etc. almost all of those will be interchangeable with AR10/AR15 parts.

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I have never tried to build one. But I guess is would not be too hard to learn.

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Building is not very difficult if you have the right tools and a basic level of mechanical ability.


However, if your budget is only a grand, I think you'd be better off buying an assembled rifle. The upside of building a rifle is that you can get all of the premium parts you want without having to throw away parts from an already-complete rifle.

For example, I don't like the barrel profile of the complete upper that I wish to buy from Aero Precision. Since I want a different barrel, I'm going to buy all of the parts from Aero except the barrel and assemble my own upper. The same goes for the lower - I want a premium trigger, a different grip, and a better stock. So rather than wasting money on lower-tier accessories and throwing them all away, I'd rather put the premium parts on the gun from the start.

So to sum up - if you want to stay under a grand on a rifle with no optics and you don't plan on shooting the rifle 1000s of times, get a complete M&P10. It's lightweight for an AR10 and has great accuracy. I highly doubt you'd be disappointed.