Welcome to my AR 15 Blog

As the title suggests, this blog is about myself and my experiences with the AR 15. Currently, my experience is extremely limited, but I'm hoping to improve on that.


A little background...

As mentioned in the "About Me" section on the right side of this page, I'm currently employed as an Aviation Engineer near the Saint Louis, MO area for a Business Jet Completion Center. Basically, my company custom designs the interior of narrow body jets for corporations and people who have way to much money. So, I decided to custom build my own little toy so I can have a minuscule piece of what our customers experience.

My firearms experience is pretty limited so far... I'm almost 30, but I've only been around firearms for the last 5 years or so. I got hooked when my wife's (then girlfriend) cousin offered me to go deer hunting on his property. I had to confess that I've never been hunting, didn't own a gun, nor had I ever shot a shotgun before (I had VERY limited experience with .22 Rifles).

So, he gave me everything... gun, ammo, a place to hunt... and the first time I pull a trigger on a shotgun, I bag a 13 point buck (if you want the whole story, let me know and I'll post pics as well). Needless to say, I was hooked.

Here's a pic of the mounted head... hard to stop after this one...




Now, I own a Mossberg 500 slug gun for deer hunting, a Remington 700 30-06 Rifle (passed down from my late grandfather), a Remington 870 Wingmaster 20-Ga Shotgun, and an old Thompson-Center 50 Cal Muzzel loader. However, none of these guns were purchased by me as they were all gifted to me. Not that I'm complaining, but I wanted have a gun that I purchased.

Here's my little collection as of now...



Now, comes the AR-15... I went to a friends house where he had set up a really nice rifle range. All of the targets were NRA regulation targets made from 3/4" hardened steel ranging between 50 and 1000 meters. He has shoots out at his house where usually 30-40 people show up for a really good time. One of the guys that showed up brought a custom-made AR-15 in a Carbine configuration. He let people shoot it and after putting 30 quick rounds down-range, I was hooked.

As I mentioned before, I'm an engineer... so of course I want to build one. My father-in-law has put more of the AR's together than he can count (and even if he could, he wouldn't tell me the number)... so he's helped to get me started...

So, on here, I'll try to document as much of the build and overall experience that I get from my AR. I'll post pitfalls, traps, and lessons learned which will hopefully help someone else out there wanting to do the same thing.

For those new to the gun, check out my links section as it has a lot of good resources available that will help with your build and overall knowledge of the gun.

Enjoy!

Mike