What is the best overall AR rifle with the lowest $ common denominator?

[Gideon]

AimSurplus has WASR2s for $400, just a tip.

 

[gyolai]

Get an Adams Arms piston upper chambered in 5.45x39. The reliability of the AK74 in a modern platform that u can pimp out to your hearts desire.

http://coldhandarms.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=115

reliability is an issue with the laminated casings from what ive read.....

 

[Cue]

All I could find was an assault pistol.
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[Noober1]

reliability is an issue with the laminated casings from what ive read.....

Laminated casings? Please explain.

 

[mmchambers06]

Laminated casings? Please explain.

He means lacquered...like the Russian Wolf/Tula/Brown Bear ammunition. It's steel cased ammunition that is coated it a lacquer or polymer type material to keep the cartridge from rusting.

If a gun is ammo sensitive (which unusually chambered AR patterned rifle typically are), it is not usually a good choice.

Generally speaking these types of rifles will not be as reliable as the more typical direct impingement 5.56/.223 counterparts...not that 95% of their owners shoot them enough to notice the difference.

 

[Wall]

Laminated casings? Please explain.

He might mean laquered casings. Steel cased ammo is laquered to prevent rusting. In an impingement type action such as a gas operated AR the Bolt Carrier Group heats up and can melt the laquer causing it to gum up the works.

Edit: Ha, mmchambers06 beat me to it

 

[mmchambers06]

Edit: Ha, mmchambers06 beat me to it

Booyah!

 

[Wall]

Booyah!

I'll get you next time dang kids

 

[Noober1]

Currently = Century Bulgarian AK-74 $350-$400
5.45 x 39, 1080 round case for $150
Magazines $12-$20 a piece

Classically= Entry level AKM style rifle $400-$500
7.62 x 39, ammo prices all over the place
Magazines $10-$20 a piece

Domestically=Entry level AR-15 style rifle $650-$800
.223, generally $250-$400 per 1000.
Good domestic magazines $15-$25 a piece

Those are the most common magazine fed military carbines.

5.45 x 39, 1080 round case for $150 Where did you find that price?

 

[WhiteyMacD]

All my guns used laminated ammo with laquered stocks.