Got my AR-180B-2 back

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Well I finally convinced my buddy I sold it to a couple years ago to sell it back to me. I couldn't think of anything better to do with my tax return, that pesky line of credit will still be there next month ;)
A couple days ago and ran 180 rounds through it at my buddy's farm and we were able to ring the gong he has set up at 300ish yards once in a while and pick off rocks in the far side of the riverbank out to around 500 yards using the iron sights and either American Eagle Tactical 55gr FMJ or S&B 5.56 55gr FMJ. I was very happy with the results considering the cheap ammo and using iron sights.
I did shoot 2 5 round groups (one with each type of ammo) off the picnic table at 100 yards, I took the target home but didn't take a pic of it or measure the groups yet. I'll update the thread with a pic of it tomorrow if I have time.
I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do with some decent optics. I will only be putting a scope on this to do a little load testing and maybe develop some handloads then it will be going back to irons. I'm not the best shot with irons but I love how light and easy to carry the rifle is without glass.

Here is the rifle
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Same thing happened to me when I traded my AR 180b to a guy out in edmonton, both missed our old guns and got it back year later. Nice to see another post about a ar 180 and the ar is a sweet shooting gun!
 
cdm123 said:
Congratulations also nice to see it's a unmolested one!
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That was one of my conditions when I sold it to him. I explained that it's not an AR-15 and never will be so if he was planning to try to make it one I wouldn't sell it.
I love them the way they were designed. Rifles don't need a bunch of rails with BS trinkets hanging off them to function. My buddy and I determined that as is with no tacticool crap we would be able to easily place center of mass shots out to 500 yards from standing positions, if we used a tree or lay prone the hit percentage went up. We were actually shooting some pretty small rocks so far away they were hard to see, I noticed the aperture of the rear actually helped focus the target, lol. Furthest shots were just over 500 yards according to my rangefinder.
 
I love my 180B-2 as well, just wish someone would make an aluminum lower available, the hinge broke on mine after about 300 rounds. I had to do my own fix for now but would like something to replace the polymer lower. Before someone says it, no I did not let the upper slam down while cleaning it, I was always very careful. It broke while shooting it from a table resting on a sandbag.
 
Garandman said:
I love my 180B-2 as well, just wish someone would make an aluminum lower available, the hinge broke on mine after about 300 rounds. I had to do my own fix for now but would like something to replace the polymer lower. Before someone says it, no I did not let the upper slam down while cleaning it, I was always very careful. It broke while shooting it from a table resting on a sandbag.
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Armalite was replaceing them for free. They still have parts
Have you contacted them?

Or there is always this
http://stormwerkz.com/accessories/armalite-ar-180b-pivot-repair-section/

I'm not sure if they still export but I ordered my scope rail directly from them years ago.
 
Garandman said:
I love my 180B-2 as well, just wish someone would make an aluminum lower available, the hinge broke on mine after about 300 rounds. I had to do my own fix for now but would like something to replace the polymer lower. Before someone says it, no I did not let the upper slam down while cleaning it, I was always very careful. It broke while shooting it from a table resting on a sandbag.
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Saw a thread somewhere on here recently with a kit to repair the front hinge if I come a cross it again I will let you know.
 
Try this from Stormwekz. They ship to Canada
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cr5 said:
That was one of my conditions when I sold it to him. I explained that it's not an AR-15 and never will be so if he was planning to try to make it one I wouldn't sell it.
I love them the way they were designed. Rifles don't need a bunch of rails with BS trinkets hanging off them to function. My buddy and I determined that as is with no tacticool crap we would be able to easily place center of mass shots out to 500 yards from standing positions, if we used a tree or lay prone the hit percentage went up. We were actually shooting some pretty small rocks so far away they were hard to see, I noticed the aperture of the rear actually helped focus the target, lol. Furthest shots were just over 500 yards according to my rangefinder.
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Factory trigger ?.....:confused:
 
I saw this for sale a while back, I actually contacted Stormwerkz before they offered this fix and sent them a bunch of pictures of the broken section so that they could look at making something. However I couldn't wait any longer for them to develop the piece (1-2 years) so I fixed it myself. I't works fine, just doesn't look as pretty. Anyway don't want to hijack this thread, back to commenting on how much we all like our 180B-2's.
 
cyclone said:
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Lol, I thought about that when I was writing, it was actually 181 rounds if my brass catcher caught them all. Quite a coincidence though, I didn't count them up till I got home, just shot until we were finished (we had 2 other rifles to play with as well) then went and drank a few beers back at the campsite. It was a good day :)
 
Garandman said:
I saw this for sale a while back, I actually contacted Stormwerkz before they offered this fix and sent them a bunch of pictures of the broken section so that they could look at making something. However I couldn't wait any longer for them to develop the piece (1-2 years) so I fixed it myself. I't works fine, just doesn't look as pretty. Anyway don't want to hijack this thread, back to commenting on how much we all like our 180B-2's.
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Feel free to discuss anything 180 here, I don't care where it goes as long as some doucher troll doesn't come along and send it spiraling into oblivion.
 
ithacaturkeykilr said:
Im digging that mag. Looks like an ATRS mag
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That's not actually a mag, it's a plastic block milled to fit the magwell with a groove cut in for the mag catch to grab, I used my router to cut a slot into the 3/4 mdf and it's a perfect stand for this and 2 of my 4 AR's, the other 2 are an AR-10 and a 9mm AR so they don't work so well on it.
Phoenix in Edmonton has them and I bought it there for around $20.
 
probably been a year since mines seen any rounds, and overall round count is still fairly low, I did butcher mine a little as I couldn't stand the original stock, I like the A2 stock much better, Been wanting to get a single piece AR scope mount that will clear the rear sight and put an AR style scope on it, Haven't done much research into it though. Anyways here it is, Felt some joy pulling it out of the safe tonight and putting a mag in it, Might go shoot some gophers with it this weekend.

 
Craig0ry said:
probably been a year since mines seen any rounds, and overall round count is still fairly low, I did butcher mine a little as I couldn't stand the original stock, I like the A2 stock much better, Been wanting to get a single piece AR scope mount that will clear the rear sight and put an AR style scope on it, Haven't done much research into it though. Anyways here it is, Felt some joy pulling it out of the safe tonight and putting a mag in it, Might go shoot some gophers with it this weekend.
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NcStar RB13 Extra-High-Profile Scope Rings - they can even clear a Robinson M-96's rear sight shroud !
 
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