Almost Afraid to Post This

[Bully]

I'm not a pro...
I am opening an FFL but am not looking to build rifles as a living. I don't think I want the headache. That said, I do enjoy the little bit of machine work that I do on firearms. It's fun for me. I like being able to thread a barrel and, conversely, to be able to cut the threads off and make it something else.
I have an opportunity to hunt upstate NY. I have a 6.5Creedmoor that I built and may take but I also stumbled across an Ares SCR lower local to me at a decent price.
If you don’t know the Ares stuff, I’m not surprised. They’ve been bought by a company called FightLite and the SCR has apparently been discontinued. The SCR is a 50 state legal lower that takes a lot of off the shelf AR parts. There is no pistol grip. Any AR upper will work with it as long as the proprietary BCG is used. It essentially functions like a semi automatic Remington 1100. It accepts AR mags.
So, a 6.5 Grendel was dreamed up. to make it truly 50 state legal, the threaded stub on the barrel that’s meant for a muzzle device need to be cut off and I opted to give a recessed target crown a go. This is the first one I’ve tried. Please be kind...
I don’t think it came out too bad for a hairdresser masquerading as a gunsmith.

 

[Ccrider]

Looks good/professionally done.

Strange mix, hair dresser/gunsmith.

 

[AckleymanII]

Scares me that you mention AR anything in the state of NY. If you wear a wig and skirt, they will probably leave you alone as a gunsmith, simply will confuse the heck out of them!

 

[6MMsteve]

Scares me that you mention AR anything in the state of NY. If you wear a wig and skirt, they will probably leave you alone as a gunsmith, simply will confuse the heck out of them!

yep

 

[dolek]

Looks good to me . Sad what we have to do to ARs to make them legal here in NY , we just have to make the best of it like you are doing.

 

[std7mag]

Don't forget, if you thread a barrel, or any other "accurizing" work, ya gotta apply with ITAR as a manufacturer.
Before you do any work for a customer.

Good to go on your own stuff.

 

[shortgrass]

Don't forget, if you thread a barrel, or any other "accurizing" work, ya gotta apply with ITAR as a manufacturer.
Before you do any work for a customer.

Good to go on your own stuff.

Sporting arms are now 'regulated' by the Commerce Dept. NFA items are still under DDTC. shttps://d3aya7xwz8momx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/USMLtoCCLTransitionFactsheet.pdftill

 

[std7mag]

Thank you for that, Shortgrass!

 

[shortgrass]

Thank you for that, Shortgrass!

Thank our President..... Export Control Reform has been in the works since 2009 I believe. Politics has just held it up.... Amounted to 'back door' gun control. Lots of other things on that USML a lot more serious than sporting arms.

 

[Bully]

Thanks all.

It’s always scary posting machine work here as the level of talent present on the forum is mind-bending.

 

[carlsbad]

In CA you can have a threaded barrel, you just can't have a flash hider (basicly horizontal slits vs the vertical slits of a muzzle brake, which is legal). Is there a state that does not allow threaded muzzles?

to make a AR a non-"assault rifle" in CA we replace the stock with one that is non-collapsible, replace the pistol grip with a grip you can't get your thumb around, and replace the flash hider with a muzzle brake or a thread protector. You'll then have to add an ambidextrous safety to operate from the right.

Your muzzle looks nice. I often use the recessed face instead of the traditional angled crown. A suggestion, I usually put a small 45 deg chamfer on both the inside and outside edge of the outside lip, makes it smoother and easier to clean.

Jerry

 

[GenePoole]

I like to do a 0.030 dish and an 11° crown.

 

[Bully]

In CA you can have a threaded barrel, you just can't have a flash hider (basicly horizontal slits vs the vertical slits of a muzzle brake, which is legal). Is there a state that does not allow threaded muzzles?

to make a AR a non-"assault rifle" in CA we replace the stock with one that is non-collapsible, replace the pistol grip with a grip you can't get your thumb around, and replace the flash hider with a muzzle brake or a thread protector. You'll then have to add an ambidextrous safety to operate from the right.

Your muzzle looks look. I often use the recessed face instead of the traditional angled crown. A suggestion, I usually put a small 45 deg chamfer on both the inside and outside edge of the outside lip, makes it smoother and easier to clean.

Jerry

In NY muzzle devices are disallowed.

In NJ, flash hiders are, for all intents and purposes, disallowed. Typically a flash hider will be open on the muzzle end large enough to fit a pinky. Muzzle brakes have a closed end. Brakes are a go in NJ.

As far as the lower, look it up. It's pretty neat.