Help Infected with BRD!

AR/M4 Custom Build Forum
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SO I have checked my symptoms and the results are conclusive, I am BRD positive. It started with the Olympic Arms that I got when I was just 20, and that same gun did me well for 15 years, not getting nearly as much range time as it should, but life keeps us busy. It used to be pretty basic, your everyday KISS rilfe.

But then I fired a friends Bushmaster with 12" inch rail and it just felt so much better and I wanted to use my rifle for some night training so I upgraded:

I was beginning to feel the itch as this point but my sickness was still in it’s infancy. I had injured my right eye a few years ago and essentially this forced me to become a left handed rifle shooter. While I liked the more custom feel of my rifle now, a few things still annoyed me. One was the shells ejecting across my line of sight. I decided to look at building my first AR from scratch, and I decided a Southpaw would be the ticket. I camped out on M4.net, AR15.com,and Cal Guns and began to read about my new obsession. Only a few made lefty’s at that point, and for my price point, Stag Arms seemed like the clear leader. All my forum trolling had convinced me that I could assemble the lower myself with a little patience and trial and error :slight_smile: I went shopping at my local dealers for a Stag lower but came up short. I did find a very nice Rock River Arms lower for a good price though, and thinking those two would fit well together I filled out my DROS and tried to be patient. I also started shopping for upper components and realized a pre-assembled upper would run me less than trying to build my own with the components I wanted. This was the result of my first build:

A bad thing happened while picking up the lower though! I saw one I liked better than the one I ordered, by a company I had not heard of till that point. Spikes Tactical. Spikes is making some very nice AR stuff, IMHO some of the nicest out there. After several phone calls to Florida that went more than an hour and a half in some cases (they like to talk AR’s at Spikes and I had plenty of questions.) I also had a second custom Spikes Stryker Upper/lower in DE on order before everything was said and done, my Stag/RR was not even assembled yet :frowning:

I think I realized the itch was turning into something bad at this point. I didn’t even need the upper as I planned to use the lower with my Stag Southpaw upper. But it was on BO so I assembled and shot the hell out of my Stag/RR in the mean time, I went with the 2HTL and it is a great shooting upper, with a nice Samson Quad rail already set up. I also started to shoot and train with a few LE friends and started to handle and shoot a few different AR platforms. The piston and SBR’s I began to fall in love with. One of the best I shot was a LWRCI A2 12.7" with a Noveske KX-3 brake. Not only did it shoot amazing, it was one of the sexiest guns I have ever handled. I really liked the look of the Firepig on the shorty barrel too, but as a civi, anything below 16" is a big no no in Cali. So I read and trolled more on the forums here and started to see pics of Cali guns that had trimmed their 16’s to 13.7 (a KX-3 is 2.3 in OAL= 16" total) and pinned and welded their KX-3’s. I was SOLD, I now had a purpose for my coming Spikes upper.
About this point three things happened, one I found something I liked even better than my Firepig (enter the Battle Comp,) a neat new Dry Lube coating came out called FailZero (nickel boron,) and I discovered why everyone loves Daniel Defense rails. I also decided the new lower was too sexy to not be mated with it’s upper so this was the result:

I wish I could say that was the end of this tale, but as I type this I am adding a Adam Arms Piston to the last Spikes rifle plus building a SI Billet SPR, a Spikes Bio Hazard Billet 6.8SPC and Piston Southpaw Stag/Novekse carbine. I am pretty sure I need help :suicide2:

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You poor man. This socialist state has brainwashed you into thinking it is a problem. The only problem I see is that we can’t SBR.

As always, please play responsibly.:smiley:

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Lifted from another “addiction” type post, to help give you some insights into the culture of this site (as opposed to some others) and how references to BRD tend to be received by M4C members in general:

I truly do NOT mean to blow your face off here, but an affinity for quality hardware is not an addiction, a disease, or an -ism. Terms like these, while often popular elsewhere, carry a negative connotation that we can probably do without as a community.

I realize that might seem much ado about nothing, but I just don’t want to give any more ammunition to the anti-gun lunatic fringe than we have to. I don’t own modern autoloaders because I am sick: I own them because it is my right under the law, and I appreciate refined, capable fighting tools in the hands of free men.

Now, does pride in ownership mean something of particular significance to a [insert your favorite high-end AR manufacturer here] customer? Absolutely. What’s not to like about premium components, selected by a master riflesmith and assembled under competent hands?

The moral of the story? Your participation is most certainly welcome, though a slightly more professional approach will likely enhance your enjoyment of this particular resource.

AC

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Noted, I will be more professional in future posts, thanks for the insight. - Matt

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hmm, i think the “addiction” thing is the op just trying to throw a little humor in his thread.

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Wholeheartedly agree, and I certainly don’t want to play the “heavy” here. In context, it wasn’t the worst analogy possible by any means, but BRD is just one of those terms that has managed to make it onto the watch list, because it is most often thrown around by users who are relatively new to M4C, and not yet tracking on the differences between this site, and other online watering holes.

No harm done, certainly, but I just wanted to make sure that the OP got off on the right foot, so folks would take him, and his contributions, more seriously. Given some of his hardware choices and experiences over the years, he will doubtless have as much to share as he has – like all of us – to learn.

AC

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The ability to contain one’s passion and enthusiasm for their hobby/sport/life varies from individual to individual. While I tend to skip over the thong-clad-and-cartwheeling threads, deep down inside me there is something that is satisfied to see someone else who is thoroughly enjoying a hobby that I love, as well as exercising their right. Not that I feel Freelance was thong-clad and cartwheeling… Maybe just cartwheeling… Just a little bit. :wink:

Anyhoo, I’m happy that Freelance has found much joy in the AR-15 hobby. See? This is my happy face –> :slight_smile:

Sales tip #87: Try to match the style of your customer. Research your customer/prospect, and adjust your selling technique to match their personality and/or behavior.

The ABC’s of selling: Always Be Closing, not Always Be Cartwheeling. :wink: