sputnik360

Personally I can't stand hooded front sights. My MI sights I used to run on my AR had a hooded front. They were on a railed block too. My complaint is that if your elevation doesn't land your front sight post in the center of that hood, you will not instinctively put the front sight post in the center of the rear sight. Instead you will line the ghost ring up with the hood of the front sight, and they actual post will not be in the center. If you're just going to shoot from the bench without stress it will be fine, but it makes it tough to snap the gun to your shoulder and put that post in the center of the rear sight. With the hooded sights you will tend to align the circles instead of centering the post in the rear sight. IMO railed blocks are a PITA. You have to make sure you get one that is the same plane as the receiver. Most are not. Otherwise you have to get taller front sights to level it up. After floating my rifle, I don't think I could ever go back to having an exposed gas block. My hand typically sits right where the gas block of a midlength gas system sits. This equals burns without a float Plus I think the railed blocks are ugly But that is just person taste.

Right, but if you want a front sight without changing handguards you will need a new gas block. If you are replacing the gas block why not just go for a milspec FSP. If I were in your shoes, given that your gas block is already low profile, I'd buy a free float tube that mounted to a milspec barrel nut (troy Alpha for example) and then through a fixed sight on that.

Used to have one just like it. I would go with a F marked front sight post / gas block just like what mike has. Best solution for a non floated gun.

What do you have for a handguard? I recommend going with a free float handguard that covers the gas block entirely and then have a fixed front sight mounted on the rail of the handguard. There is no need to have a folding sight with with a reflex sight such as an aimpoint or eotech. With the dot you are focusing on your target with the dot on it and those sights will magically disappear from your vision. With irons you focus on the front sight. When you don't focus on that front sight, you forget it's even there. My rifle currently has a flip up on the front, but I bought that before I had experience shooting it. My new AR is coming with a fixed Daniel Defense front sight.

You can also get them so the foam is cut into tiny squares that are barely attached to each other. You pull out the squares you don't want and then you can customize it to fit whatever you want.

If I had a toy like that I would leave CA..

I don't have one to compare to stock, but I seriously doubt that the Phase5 would catch more than a large BCM. The teeth might be more aggressive, but it looks like it doesn't stick out as far. I'll pick one up for my new CAV15 build in a couple weeks and put some comparison pics up next to the BCM.

Check out the Phase 5 battle latch. It gives you a bigger latch without sticking out very far. Plus it's Ambi. Phase 5 makes some good shit and I would assume it's solid and good to go. My next AR will have it.

I dislike the BAD lever. It's extremely easy to lock back without one. The BAD lever has you put your finger near your trigger for non-shooting. Bad muscle memory. Plus they can get caught on stuff. You rarely need to activate the slide lock unless you have a malfunction. But then it's just as fast to chop your grip to the magwell to work the lever and use your strong side hand to rack the bolt. And then you don't need some extra junk sticking through your trigger guard. I would be interested in finding a bolt catch with a bigger paddle though.

I have the large latch and I would NOT recommend it. Get the medium or small. Both are plenty big to operate with gloves. My large latch catches on my sling and one time even was enough to pull my rifle out of battery. Unacceptable. I've been meaning to replace it, but I have other things on the list before it.

Agreed. 3k is a bit out there. I think you would be much better off getting one good optic that is like 1.5-6x or similar than buying two lesser quality optics for different distances. That being said, I have no problem shooting 2MOA out to ~300 yards with my Aimpoint and a 2MOA dot with no magnification. It would be easier with some magnification though. I've had a lot of my friends who have decided that now's the time to buy/build an AR because of the threat of a ban... My only advice is that you should have done it months ago or at least after the election. Buy the first one you find and don't be picky. I've been trying to hunt down misc parts for friends who are just finishing some builds and it has been a PITA. I'm just pissed that I didn't have a chance to build my AR pistol in 300blk.

That's going to be quite the rifle when it's done. Don't cheap out on the optics for a rifle that nice. Check out something similar to these http://www.opticsplanet.com/leupold-mark-8-cqbss-1-1-8x24-riflescope.html $$$$$$$ http://www.opticsplanet.com/leupold-vx-3-1-5-5x20-rifle-scope.html

Irons are a must have. I have flip ups but I always cowitness. You want a cowitness, not the other way around. This is what you should see with an eotech.

Why would you remove the front sight?

A lot of nice rifles here. Here's my baby: RRA Lower with 2 stage match trigger BCM upper w/ BCM Bolt Carrier Group Armalite Barrel BCM gunfighter charging handle Troy 13" handguard Aimpoint PRO YHM flip ups TLR-1s It's got about 2200 rounds through it without being cleaned so far. Zero malfuctions. Gotta love a Bravo Company bolt!