HappilyAddicted

I have one and I love it. I love it because I built it myself and didn't buy one off the rack. There is something about building your own gun that gives me ultimate satisfaction. Call me what you will but I am a big fan of the AR platform.

Having said that, I am in the hunt for a nice M1 Garand.

ikar

I was trained on the M-16 back in the eraly 70s so I am a fan of ARs and would like to get a Colt SP-1 someday. It's just like the M-16s I used to use, no bolt assist.

However I think the M-1 carbine is one of the most fun guns to shoot that there is. I prefer wooden stocks on rifles and shotguns with the exception of the aforementioned M-16.

StrutStopper

I always liked ARs, just never cared to buy one. Thats why I built one

guardjim

Nothing against the AR. My SHTF rifle is an SKS. But then I'm a handgun shooter.
I'm not a tactical person. More like a practical person. The only use I have for it is self defense for home protection. It's minimal but will do for my purposes.
The SKS has had quite a few rounds through it with a lot of different people shooting it without a malfunction. And it's accurate.
My other choice for HD is a shotgun. But thats for close range.

Southerngunner

I like the A R platform and I have spent a lot of money on 3 different versions, none of which I kept. I figure if the time comes that actually I need one there will a few laying around to choose from. I hope it doesn'tcome to that.

Therealmfngrinch

Sorry love my ruger sr 556. just as much as i love my mini 30 and sks's.that being said i unfortunately had my favorite gun ever stole out of my house a few years ago. a modelo 1909 argentine mauser. i have turkish mauser k98 and 2 winchester pump 12ga. a1929 model 12 and a 1924 model 1897 field edition (wish it was trench gun)but same model so i am 36 but young at heart and just love guns

Smithy

I think maybe the idea behind the thread is this: I just got my newest Brownells catalog and pages that are solely AR pages and you've gone through over a third of the catalog. Add 1911's in there and now you've covered over half the catalog. It's what's selling, so obviously regardless of our personal "Non interest", we are in the minority to say the least. They're selling like hot cakes and folk are scooping them up. Also every "Non Colt" manufacturer is putting out their own version of an AR, Ruger included. That's got to tell you something. Smithy.

j3rd

I don't have an AR yet. I might get one once my PowerBall retirement program works out the way I hope.

Rivers2k

I would have to ask have you ever shot one? I am not into all the bolt on stuff but I have simple range set up on my AR and it is a dream to shoot. That being said my favorite guns are lever actions and revolvers. I love the beautiful wood on an old gun and the simplicity of levers and revolvers. but shooting such a precise rifle as my AR is a beautiful thing as well.

PS everything on my rifle is metal no plastic no composite. I do have some foam where my cheek goes that's the only thing not metal.

RichardB

Many of us just can't forget the jammamatic M-16s of the mid 1960. Besides that they were not even legal for deer hunting. No ARs in my safe.

MZ5

I've owned ARs in the past. In fact, the first centerfire rifle I bought was a Colt HBAR. One of my friends was really into what today we'd call 'tacticool,' and it did seem really cool for some reason, so I bought it. I was very proud of it, being my first centerfire and all, and it being such a cool gun, but I hardly ever shot it. I did take it to some Service Rifle matches, and that was actually kinda fun, but they were far away, expensive, and I just never 'clicked' with the group there. So, it sat around, sat around, sat around... Finally I sold it to pay bills during college. I bought another some years later. I never even took it to a service rifle match (I lived elsewhere by then). They're just completely uninteresting, un-engaging, un-fun guns to me, so I don't have one. Partly it's to do with them being semi-automatics; I prefer to operate the mechanism on a rifle. Beyond that, though, they just don't hold my interest or attention.

MZ5

This is the most-common one I know of:
New Frontier Armory Model LW-15 Lightweight Polymer AR-15 Lower

There was one called Plum Crazy in the past. That name no longer exists; I think I recall them saying that the expanding LE/military market was such that they thought "Plum Crazy" was a little too light-hearted a name for such 'serious' folks to take them seriously.

Llano Dan

I am in my mid-sixties, so not part of the younger group of AR users. I learned to distrust the AR in Vietnam and still distrust it. I prefer the Ruger Mini-14 or 30. I really prefer the Mini-30 but wish it was not chambered in that Russian cartridge, I like American. Hence, my personal firearms are Ruger Security Six 6", Ruger P89, Taurus PT1911 (South American, could not bet the price and it shoots), Marlin 336 .30-30, Marlin X7 .30-06, and 2 Remington 870's 16 and 12 gauge. I only hunt USA and mostly only Texas and surrounding states, so this is all I need. Because of my 16 it is raining doves in Central Texas right know. Lots of luck to the AR users you will need it or get a real rifle such as a Springfield M1A.

VaGent

They don't do it for me; but hey I'm caught in a time warp because I go with a M-1 Carbine. Now there's a rifle you can love.

Lee D

ive built a couple, owned several, and still have a couple nicer ones in my safe.
not my favorite rifle/carbines but im not gonna get rid of em