BCA Bolt action Upper

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Wolfdog91

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Anyone else messing with these ? Wish I waited a little longer and just got the un barreled upper but it's been fun so far. Replaced the factory 16" with a 18" BA SPR barrel could not get it to shoot the heavy 60's better then 1.5'@ 100yd constantly....but seems to like the 60gr vmaxes and 55gr SP's a half decent.
Ooki hard at building a .22 arc with on or if I can find a lower cost .22 creed barrel , they just stared making these uppers for an AR10 platform so...
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I'm thinking about it, going to stop in Saturn's shop and see if I can get a 17 Rem barrel (20-22")with no gas port. None of my other 17's are threaded and I want to shoot a 17 suppressed at night next winter.
 
William Suter said:
Here I am confused again but why would you convert your AR to a bolt action?
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Pro .. Has total modular system with just an assload of aftermarket mass produced options available to it, at good pricing.
Con .. your just punching yourself in the face with the AR magazine, and your married to it's small limited COAL restriction.

Or just buy a side charge upper, or standard AR upper, and just turn the Gas Off to accomplish same thing . I actually did that and hunted with a side-charge upper/zero gas, and surprisingly it worked rather well. very accurate also.

21st century Modular for Bolt Action hunter.. the market is flush with outstanding selection of modular chassis systems now. The market offerings for 'remage' pre-fit/barrel nut systems is pretty big now with large offerings in Caliber and Barrel option also to just build your own.
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The bolt AR receiver is so much cheaper, you can buy multiple barrels to play with. All at home with tools you already have. Everything can ship directly to you, at least for most of us. I haven't had a problem getting loads to shoot min of prairie dog at mag length and shorter from AR's. Lose the gas tube/block and load work will be easier. AR barrels are usually threaded ++++( I have suppressors). I can't afford custom actions and I really like my Thompson Center dimension actions - switch barrels.
 
William Suter said:
Here I am confused again but why would you convert your AR to a bolt action?
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Honestly.....I a weird guy and I thought it was neat lol ! That's like a large part of it.

But one of the main one is as far as a bolt gun goes, it's legit the cheapest route a guy like me could go for a really modular easily adjustable bolt gun.
I LOVE adjustability and being able to not need a gunsmith to do stuff for me.... especially when the closest one that's half decent is like 3hr away. Being 5'1" most stuff doesn't fit me well at all and the AR platform is like that best thing for me.

Also I'm a tinkerer more then a killer if I'm being honest. I like to play with different calibers, barrels , breaks , hand guards ,stocks ect and be cheap about it. This deal uses all standard AR parts.

Also there hair something about shooting a bolt gun I really enjoy. Love my semies too but
 
Long time ago I had a side charger upper, IIRC gave it to SIL. I think it was a DelTon smooth side they machined a slot in the ejection port. I didn't like the idea of the bolt in the carrier and never used it - hard to dis-assemble for cleaning . I sometimes use a single-loader mag in my carbine. I use the 30cal vmax a lot in BO and started using it in 308W. So far pretty good.
 
I was thinking like you Wolfdog and building a 24 inch 22 ARC. I have a Valkyrie but haven't talked myself into the ARC yet. It does gain a little over the Valkyrie.
 


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