Originally Posted By: bluealteredThe days of saving by rolling your own are pretty much over, at least for now. The advantage is that you can custom make yours the way you want it, you can make it light with a 16" that will shoot just as good as the longer barrels out to say 4-600yds. Or you can make it a long range shooter out to 1000yds.
We make them just this way: The way and parts that you want. I've made 16" standard M4's all the way to a custom .243 $1400 upper and everything in between.
I can't stress to customers enough that build something that you want. Don't buy a factory gun and then replace the buttstock, replace the handguards and then the trigger. Do it all and save money and don't have these parts laying around.
Good luck with whatever you do, a lot of good information here.
