80% receiver jig in canada?

People have done it, but someone has finished lowers for $159. The problem with 80% lowers is that different makes have different pre machined- un machined areas, so you do not know what jig you need till you get the lower (unless you buy the jig from them which they usually happen to sell). And then you have to have the skills to do the job and usually a drill press won't cut it. If you get one that doesn't have the buffer tube tapped, you will also have to buy the tap @$40-60. And then you have a lower that still doesn't have a finish. Anodising will set you back $100 or so (most anodisors have a minimum charge). In the end you have an inferior product that you pretty much can't sell.
 
That is a smoking deal!

Mine was $300.......

80% lowers are not really a "deal" here in Kanuckistan. In the US, you build it and there's no papers. Here it still needs to be registered.

There are a couple of places in the US that will ship to Canada, but make sure you use their jig, every manufacturer has different things they do to get to 80%, so jig from company A May not get you to 100% with company Bs 80% receiver.....

When I did mine, I did it for the satisfaction of doing so. I spent $100 on the lower and $300 on the jig. Shipping et-al was $459, plus GST at the post office on pick up.

All in I spent about 4hrs with the drill press and a milling base. Registration took a tad over 10 months with several emails to the CFC techs etc. I had to send copies of the plans and pictures with measurements of the lower to the techs....... They wouldn't let me register it as a lower. I had to complete a rifle to register it. Just FYI.

I purchased mine about a month before aero-precision lowers became available up here for $129.......

I was thinking about a 80% upper next, but to be completely honest..... I don't think I'll bother....

I have no plans to rent, loan or sell the jig. I may pick up a couple more 80% lowers in the future. Now that I have the jig etc.......
 
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notsorichguy said:
That is a smoking deal!

Mine was $300.......

80% lowers are not really a "deal" here in Kanuckistan. In the US, you build it and there's no papers. Here it still needs to be registered.

There are a couple of places in the US that will ship to Canada, but make sure you use their jig, every manufacturer has different things they do to get to 80%, so jig from company A May not get you to 100% with company Bs 80% receiver.....

When I did mine, I did it for the satisfaction of doing so. I spent $100 on the lower and $300 on the jig. Shipping et-al was $459, plus GST at the post office on pick up.

All in I spent about 4hrs with the drill press and a milling base. Registration took a tad over 10 months with several emails to the CFC techs etc. I had to send copies of the plans and pictures with measurements of the lower to the techs....... They wouldn't let me register it as a lower. I had to complete a rifle to register it. Just FYI.

I purchased mine about a month before aero-precision lowers became available up here for $129.......

I was thinking about a 80% upper next, but to be completely honest..... I don't think I'll bother....

I have no plans to rent, loan or sell the jig. I may pick up a couple more 80% lowers in the future. Now that I have the jig etc.......
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Really....? Odd. The two AR15 lowers I made (from solid blocks of aluminum) took 2 weeks to be fully registered (not including a week or so for the reg. cert. to come), I only had to send them three pics of the lowers, and one was registered as a complete rifle, and the other as receiver-only. They were verified over the phone.

The AR10 lower (made from a block of aluminum) was essentially the same banana.



The main thing you wanna watch with 80% lowers is that I have seen them (including a guy on the EE trying to flog them) with the Auto Sear cut, which is something the SFSS is specifically looking for in the pictures you send them. Would suck to spend all that money and do the work to find out it's getting seized.
 
I registered a home made lower as well.... Took under a week with no verification required.

Though if yours was the first one and there was no previous frt, 10 months kind of makes sense
 
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