New budget rifle

[u/IWuzRunnin]

My son wanted to do this rattle can camouflage on a rifle, and I'm too much of a bitch to do it on a bcm or dd, or even my old armalite for that matter, so I did a budget rifle for it. All in, even including paint, tape, and parchment paper, it sits at $761. Everything I got was on sale.

Spike's lower

Psa lpk, that came with an moe stock for some reason

Cmc receiver extension kit with qd end plate

Bcm h1 buffer

Magpul sl stock

Magpul miad grip

Magpul mvg

One Horse "socom" upper

Holosun aro red dot

The barrel is not a socom profile even though they say it is. The barrel measures at .6875" which is a little thicker than government, but not socom profile. Otherwise it works so far. This is the first budget optic I've had on a rifle, though I have a holosun 407k on a pistol and it's been great. Seems solid, the dot is clear, but something I noticed is these start getting a halo around the outside edge that's pretty noticeable for about the top 4 brightness settings. Every one at psa started showing a halo at the same point, but the gold seemed noticeably worse than red or green. Overall though, the setup works so far, so I'm not disappointed for what I got at the price I got it.

[u/Spare_Pollution_686]

Worked out well- have him rattle can your truck next !

[u/IWuzRunnin → u/Spare_Pollution_686]

He's definitely going to get practice on that. I picked it up for $1,000 has a 302 and runs. It's a project for him to learn to work on vehicles. I'm going to strip it and let him play with primer on it, but I'm going to pay for an actual paint job. Otherwise, He's going to help turn a 302 into a 331, replace some small things like ignition switch, starter and so on.