What next?

[notsorichguy]

So 8 months ago I decided I ABSOLUTLY needed an AR.....

I watched all the self help vids at Brownelles . com so I now know how to completely take apart and re-build or build an AR, I also know what tools I would need to buy or get to accomplish this. I also now know what this part and that part are. I really found that 8 hrs was well spent...... Even if my wife spent the next 2 days complaining about how I ignored her and hid in the basement for a weekend.

So about 4 months ago I finally decided on a S&W M&P 15..... mostly because the local g-monger 'made an offer I couldn't refuse'..... But I knew what I really wanted was a shortie.

Of course 8 days after I bought my AR a used Dlask with a 11.5" barrel came in on consignment, before I could get the $$$ together someone else bought it. I would go to the store and just 'fondle' the Dlask and think... 'yup, I need a shortie'.

So I finally get my Tax return, I decide I am going to go shopping for an upper to go on my S&W lower, Personally I find the Smith lower to be pretty good...... Although I wouldn't know the difference anyway!

I want to build one but I don't want to spring for all the tools and stuff that I would need. I figgure I'm gonna buy a complete upper, what the heck, I can always change stuff up later if I decide I want to.

I am looking for an Upper in 10.5" to 11.5". Free float handguard with quad rails, Low profile gas block. I don't need a bolt & chargeing handle as I can just take the parts out of my S&W upper.

I wind up at Quester, after touring 5 or 6 online stores. I've looked at the Stags, the RRA's everything is just looking like it needs too much work to make it what I want. Add to that I am going to get the retailer to 'assemble' the upper for me (so I don't have the chance to screw it up). I find 2 uppers at questar, one needs some work to make what I want, the other is exactly what I want.... but more than I want to spend.

By this point I have already purchased a Baby Eagle, a Colt 1911, agreed to buy a STI 1911 in 9mm and a couple of other firearms related bits and pieces. SO I have already spent all but 1K fo my tax return...... I feel a little silly about that I was looking for an AR upper not all this other stuff!

This is the one I wanted to have the parts installed on. https://shopquestar.com/shopping65/shopexd.asp?id=1089&bc=no
Which looks like an excellent upper btw, just not exactly what I am looking for. I almost bought this upper once I saw it and the price! But I was strong and kept looking.

This is the one I think is the Bee's Knees!
https://shopquestar.com/shopping65/shopexd.asp?id=1265&bc=no

Unfortuantly once I shell out for the parts I want them to install on the Questar upper, the cost of parts alone is going to be more than the one that is exactly 'what I want'.....

What do you do when you find what you've been looking for and then you find out you can't afford it.......

You call you credit card company and get a credit increase

I can't wait untill I get my new upper! I ordered the LMT.

So now I need to start thinking about some bolt on's..... I'm thinking about folding front & rear sights, maybe a red dot of some kind...... But I am completely ignorant of what I should put on the beautiful rail on the top of that LMT........

And I'm trying to keep it under $500...... untill I get the CC paid off anyway!

Any Ideas?

Cheers!

 

[FPembleton]

So 8 months ago I decided I ABSOLUTLYSo now I need to start thinking about some bolt on's..... I'm thinking about folding front & rear sights, maybe a red dot of some kind...... But I am completely ignorant of what I should put on the beautiful rail on the top of that LMT........

Don't mount anything that you don't need on the rail. Just because it's there doesn't mean you need to fill it with unnecessary crap.

 

[coldfire]

i agree, just watch the EE pretty sure there was MI BUIS listed there. do a search.
as for red dot pick up a clone see if you like it then save for the real deal. easy on the CC and the relationship. or just run iron sights for a while.
just a thought.

 

[Scocou]

I say get some cheap sights and use it as-is, then decide what's missing or lacking. Trying to anticipate beforehand will likely get you a pile of stuff you don't need. Obviously, if you were fielding the rifle for duty it would be a different story, but it sounds like you have time to make up your mind. Relax, enjoy your new firearms - time & use will reveal what holes need filling...

 

[survivalofthefittest]

that LMT upper is scrumptrilescent... K.I.S.S. my friend