aka: billets, pistons, suppressors and paint, a love story.
Please note that many of these pictures appear in other threads, in other parts of this forum. I am attempting to put them all in a single place, and chronicle the path in which this particular sbr took into existence.
I've been toying with the idea of suppressing an AR for years. Being a lefty, every time I ACTUALLY shot a suppressed AR, reminded me why I hadn't done it sooner. The violent blast of hot gas and powder out of the ejection port at least FEELS like it has the potential to blind, if without eyepro.
With the advent of several new piston retrofits available on the market, I again became interested in suppressed shooting. In fact, I had placed and order, and paid for a 5.56 suppressor 2 days prior to SHOT 2008, with the plan of researching the piston system with which to run it, at the show.
Prior to all of this, I had run across a small outfit, producing billet AR lower receivers. I asked about them on several forums, no one had heard of them, or had ever seen one. I decided that if I wanted to touch one of these receivers, I would have to buy one. I received a double digit serial (obviously these guys were newer than I even thought)...and was quite impressed. I posted pics and a review of the lower on several sites...
I then decided that I liked the lower SO much, I might as well SBR it. The company offered to do my SBR engraving for free, as a "thank you" for all of the pics I had posted around the net.
Later at SHOT show, in talking to Mr Larue, I learned that my pictures had inspired him to contact the company, and from there, the Larue billet lowers were born.
I decided that I wanted a very similar sbr setup to my current carbine setup. Turns out I was going to have little choice, as funds required me to strip my current carbine, in order to dress my new sbr build (shut up sneaky). My current carbine was completely gutted of its juicy bits, including the requisite unpinning of the flash hider in order to salvage my Larue rail.
RIP SOLDIER
I ordered a 10.5 inch LMT upper, which was test fitted to the sbr'd lower.
I then fitted it with my salvaged Larue rail.
After that, I had enough to prep and paint the rig with a custom mixed Norrell's moly resin. I mixed about a capful of flat black with their flat dark earth, to darken it up, and more closely match the magpul FDE parts I already had.
I then assembled the rifle in a test configuration with most of the parts taken from my sacrificial carbine.
The upper was then sent to PWS for a piston retrofit. Hilarity and "Not for rectal insertion" lore ensued.
Please note that many of these pictures appear in other threads, in other parts of this forum. I am attempting to put them all in a single place, and chronicle the path in which this particular sbr took into existence.
I've been toying with the idea of suppressing an AR for years. Being a lefty, every time I ACTUALLY shot a suppressed AR, reminded me why I hadn't done it sooner. The violent blast of hot gas and powder out of the ejection port at least FEELS like it has the potential to blind, if without eyepro.
With the advent of several new piston retrofits available on the market, I again became interested in suppressed shooting. In fact, I had placed and order, and paid for a 5.56 suppressor 2 days prior to SHOT 2008, with the plan of researching the piston system with which to run it, at the show.
Prior to all of this, I had run across a small outfit, producing billet AR lower receivers. I asked about them on several forums, no one had heard of them, or had ever seen one. I decided that if I wanted to touch one of these receivers, I would have to buy one. I received a double digit serial (obviously these guys were newer than I even thought)...and was quite impressed. I posted pics and a review of the lower on several sites...
I then decided that I liked the lower SO much, I might as well SBR it. The company offered to do my SBR engraving for free, as a "thank you" for all of the pics I had posted around the net.
Later at SHOT show, in talking to Mr Larue, I learned that my pictures had inspired him to contact the company, and from there, the Larue billet lowers were born.
I decided that I wanted a very similar sbr setup to my current carbine setup. Turns out I was going to have little choice, as funds required me to strip my current carbine, in order to dress my new sbr build (shut up sneaky). My current carbine was completely gutted of its juicy bits, including the requisite unpinning of the flash hider in order to salvage my Larue rail.
RIP SOLDIER
I ordered a 10.5 inch LMT upper, which was test fitted to the sbr'd lower.
I then fitted it with my salvaged Larue rail.
After that, I had enough to prep and paint the rig with a custom mixed Norrell's moly resin. I mixed about a capful of flat black with their flat dark earth, to darken it up, and more closely match the magpul FDE parts I already had.
I then assembled the rifle in a test configuration with most of the parts taken from my sacrificial carbine.
The upper was then sent to PWS for a piston retrofit. Hilarity and "Not for rectal insertion" lore ensued.