Que 'who's gun is this?' different stock, different mag release, different foregrip, different everything. The guy dropped 3k worth of parts into my gun, finished it, guccied it. The only things that remained of what I bought was the barrel, upper, lower, buffer tube and trigger.

Im fucking pissed. Complained a little, dad ended up liking it so i gave it to him and rebuilt my own

So moral of this story NEVER let anyone touch your rifle

Jesus H. dude, that's fucked

RIP
What happened to the parts

But yeah, unless you're a complete retard or have no faith in yourself, there's really no need to send an AR to a 'smith. AR's aren't "built" they're assembled

He gave back the parts he took off which went into my new rifle. yea but I was new and wasnt sure yaknow?

Honestly the first one I hand build I'll take it to my trusted gunsmith just cause I want that assurance
Just to be safe

The problem I had with my build was aligning the gas port just right

They were really expensive magpul parts which I didnt mind but the point is that he said 'eehhh just do it anyway I dont think he'll mind

Regardless
The fact that you messed with someone's pride and joy
Just cause
That's wrong

Especially when you were never given permission

Honestly I dont know who to be mad at because I dont know who decided to put the parts on my rifle, my buddy or the gunsmith

...
I don't know what to tell you man

Just thought Id sgare

This is it minus the sight and grip

I mean I built my own and never took it to a smith. I figured since I wasnt actually modifying anything I was fine, since building an ar is pretty much like playing with lego

@Hobbs oh hai there

I mean we're everywhere. No one escapes the reach of the Gøøns

second mud test on the aug, total failure

so sad, I love the aug too

Looks like the ejection port got filled with sticky mud, causing the FTE

seems about right

The charging handle slot getting filled is unacceptable though

Highly unlikely to actually happen, but hopefully this causes Steyr to do an update. They've not touched anything on the AUG for years, outsourcing any updates to third parties

dude I know right

the a3 has remained essentially unchanged for the better part of a decade

Yup.

only corvus defensive has made any sort of "rail system" for one

i would absolutely love to see Steyr update the aug, that would make my wallet tremble

Dude, the Corvis rails look like hot trash, hanging inches off the gun. I wouldn't trust them

i agree

they need an OEM update

I don't think it would be TOO goddamn difficult to make a cover for the charging handle slot that slides with the charging handle

The FAL has one. The M240 has one. The Imbel IA2 has one.

Lots of guns do it, and easily, and yet lots of guns DON'T do it, or do it differently (like the goofy spring loaded thing on the Galil Ace) and I can't figure out why

the aug also has it's charging handle channel positioned "upward" rather than vertical, which is naturally conducive to the ingress of debris

Also true

I remember there was this white hunger games peacekeeper spec A3 at my LGS years ago that sat around for like an entire year, I was seriously considering just going in there and offering 1400 for me to take it off their hands

Rattle can the whit away. The polymer stock separates from everything easy enough, it's probably one of the easiest guns to do that too