Another nice looking rifle!

I have heard about QC issues with Olympic Arms and just not very high quality parts. You shouldn't have any issues with the lower receiver though.

I have kind of the same situation. Lots of people dislike DPMS. I have a DPMS lower but everything else is either RRA or CMMG which are both known for quality parts. My forged DPMS lower is perfect as far as lower receivers go.

The people from CMMG are at most of the Missouri gun shows. I spent an hour talking to them one time. They are very nice, and seem quite knowledgable. I wish they built their own .308 AR platforms (they are dealers of DPMS). I nearly traded them my Olympic Arms toward one of their .223 AR's.

CMMG is awesome to deal with. They have a really good rep in the AR industry and I know they do use DPMS parts but they do much better QC checks than DPMS and I think they make some of there own parts.

Yes tony this topic is pretty hot. Im glade tho cause im reading every post no mater how long it is and im learning alot.

Im realy sold on building my own AR. I do have another question tho. I want to build a compact yet light AR. Is there any regulations on how long the barrel and gun have to be??

I "think" their .223 rifles are made completely in house. If anything is DPMS, it is the lower reciever. Tthe barrels are 4150 instead of 4140, and they parkerize them disassembled, and then put them together so that there is no bare metal under the front sight, and so on. They were only charging $16 for 30 round mags (brand new) that were their reccommended brand at the gun show. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

KnifeParty,
Wow this thread filled up fast!

In Nov 1999 i decided to build myself a Y2K rifle <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

$155 Olympic Arms lower receiver
$500 Bushmaster kit: preassembled upper w/ 16" heavy barrel, all furniture
----
$655 my total out-the-door, back in 1999.

My goal was carbine-length, 30-rnd mags.. just something handy for suburbs & shooting people/cars "down the street". In retrospect i shoulda got the Light 16" barrel.. for lighter overall weight. So now i wanna trade my 16" Heavy for a 16" Light barrel.




If you can completely disassemble/reassemble a 1911, you shouldn't have any problems w/ building your own AR.

Buying a pre-assembled Upper Receiver w/ Barrel helps a lot. That way you don't have to mess w/ torquing barrel, headspacing, gas port stuff, blah blah.

As someone above said, www.AR15.com forums has lots of tips, how-to's, & nice exploded diagrams.

Anyways, g'luck with that.


> stansbrew,
What's the bad news about Olympic Arms? i only have their lower receiver, so don't know about any other parts they might make/sell.

Im realy sold on building my own AR. I do have another question tho. I want to build a compact yet light AR. Is there any regulations on how long the barrel and gun have to be??

I've got a 16" upper coming, and I was just going to put it on my full size A2 stock lower - but I'm really thinking about picking up a collapsable stock lower since the Dems are going to try and take them away again, I'm sure!

I've got a 16" upper coming, and I was just going to put it on my full size A2 stock lower - but I'm really thinking about picking up a collapsable stock lower since the Dems are going to try and take them away again, I'm sure!