Best 'bang for buck" AR?

The CORE15 (I wanted to purchase) just went up $230 while I was waiting for the Dealer to get back to me on a question.....no longer a good deal IMO.
 
Farmboy said:
Knight's Armament.

With it you get:

- 2 stage match trigger (included)
- Back up sights (included)
- Ambi mag release (included)
- Ambi bolt catch (included)
- Enhanced charging handle (included)
- LMT SOPMOD Stock (included)
- Push Button sling mounts - front and back (included)
- Hammer forged chrome lined barrel (included)
- lifetime warranty (included)

If you're going to add a new trigger, stock, back up sights, sling mounts, a new charging handle, or any ambi parts, then consider that as part of the cost of a different rifle.
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Knights Armament are one of the nicest if not the nicest out of box AR I have ever shot!
 
Our diving Cdn $$ is gonna change all those great suggestions all of you have made! Bummer!

Oh yeah, thankfully we do have Canadian AR makers! Time to support them! Win-win! :wave:

Cheers,
Barney
 
Ready to support our canadian AR makers, provide their products is on par with the best stuff out there... My patriotism will go so far... JP.
 
"Best Bang for the Buck"...(insert big $ name) may be one of the Best, but not for the Buck.

The only thing I'd care to include on my past AR's is an enhanced charging handle...about $50 before tax and shipping.

An AR worth three times what I could get for my car is hardly best for the buck. One that I could sell my ####ty mini van and buy with the proceeds...now your talking.

May I be so bold as to point out that every rifle mentioned will do the job. My S&W M&P 15 appeared to be more accurate than a Rem 700 SPS Tac I owned.

A pair of Carhartt jeans ($65) keep my parts covered just as well as a pair of Baldwin jeans ($150 +), and look just fine till you can read the label.
 
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i wear AE jeans, 35 bucks, Im 20 pounds overweight, 37 years old, balding, no amount spent on clothes is going to make me look better, and frankly I don't care.

I bought a Colt when the dollar was high last spring because my super duper expensive AR was complete crap so I went with a company thats been doing ARs for a long long time. Changed it a bit to my liking. came to about 1700 with all the mods, half what I spent on my disastrous Christensen Arms. Ill never forget that horrible experience where I spent 3500$ on an AR that would not feed 20% of the time and would not extract 20% of the time, so defective 4 shots out of 10!!!!!

Will i buy another AR, most probably not, the restrictive status is a deterrent, but I always wanted one so I got one. I will now gravitate back to NR semis.

So my suggestion to the OP is just like with women, to stick to the middle of the pack, do not go with the cheap Chinese crap (Norinco)and do not go with the super expensive crap (KAC), stay in the middle and you'll be very happy. A lot of people and vendors here will disagree with this, but this is the most sensible thing you can do.

Just like dating a super model will make you as miserable as dating an ugly chick, an expensive AR will make you just as unhappy as a cheap AR.
 
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Took the CORE15 M4 out yesterday to RDSC with the new Magpul furniture and just the "ironsights" (actually a magpul rear mbus and the standard F marked front post). Man it is a smooth shooter and even grouped acceptably with Norinco milsurp ammo. I love it even more now :)

Next up for this one will be a red dot sight I think....
 
Just purchased as my first offiacial AR, handled a Norinco, DPMS and another brand that I've never heard of. Loved the fit and finish on the S&W so got er, Paid the extra little buit and got it for $1000 out the door. Can't wait to use it!
 
I recently bought a windham weaponry and my buddy bought a black forge, extremely happy with both. Each are under $1000.
I did a lot of research with bang for buck in mind.... Top 3 were windham, black forge and Core15. Being ex CF, I quite familiar with the platform.... You would be hard pressed to really max the potential reliability of these rifles. In my opinion, the extra money comes into play when you start adding the cnc rails, nickel boron BCG etc.
Get a good AR, and adapt from there. Little by little, make it yours, the way you want it. Anyone can go out and by a DD mk12, but why? Cuz Marcus Luttrell used one?
Chris kyle didn't care for it..... But what do you want? A fancy roll mark of the cool company of the week or a good rifle with cash leftover?
 
Norc IS you best bang for your buck. You get a choice of C8 or full size for less than half the price of whats been mentioned. Even more bang is the end of the world combo - gets you the AR, ammo and accessories too.
 
Norc is a good value, but a Colt is probably still a good (if not better) value, even with our dollar being what it is. Remember that as recently as 2 years ago, Colts were going for almost double what they are now, if not more.
 
So my suggestion to the OP is just like with women, to stick to the middle of the pack, do not go with the cheap Chinese crap (Norinco)and do not go with the super expensive crap (KAC), stay in the middle and you'll be very happy. A lot of people and vendors here will disagree with this, but this is the most sensible thing you can do.
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While it's brutal the trouble you went through with your other AR platform, it was not a Knight's Armament nor did you deal with One Shot Tactical who would had had you up and shooting very fast if you had ever run into an issue with a KAC purchased from us.

We look after our clients by having two KAC armorers on staff. We can switch parts, uppers or complete guns within days or weeks to make sure you're happy and satisfied.

Being who we are and the companies we deal with like KAC, you not only get them backing the product, you also get us backing the product because of how Knight's Armament works with us.

Basically dealing with us and being Knight's Armament distributor is like dealing with KAC itself.

You are getting a product that has doesn't have some cool marketing ploy but a product that has extensive military service. Your getting a product from a company that spends huges amounts of money on R&D. Your getting a product that has a massive amount of testing and history behind it.

Your getting a product that is used by multiple levels of government, by many different units and agencies in most of the western world.

You getting a product that we back 100%
 
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DA 556. More accurate than me, and goes bang every time when using good magazines.
Has its haters but those are usually people that dropped $3k+ on their own AR, or is someone trying to SELL a $3k+ AR and need to point out faults of less expensive knockoffs.
Once i figured the 30 round mags that came with the DA 556 were trash , 600 rounds later [as of this weekend] i have had zero FTF/FTE.
 
Buzzy said:
DA 556. More accurate than me, and goes bang every time when using good magazines.
Has its haters but those are usually people that dropped $3k+ on their own AR, or is someone trying to SELL a $3k+ AR and need to point out faults of less expensive knockoffs.
Once i figured the 30 round mags that came with the DA 556 were trash , 600 rounds later [as of this weekend] i have had zero FTF/FTE.
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What mags would you recommend for the DA 556?
thanks
 
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