I've not watched either channel in a while.. good God! John, is that really you!? Wow, your transformation is insane! You are unrecognizable other than the voice! I'm so proud of you, my man!
Yeah but at a certain point it requires quite a bit of space to store them all so selling them becomes an attractive option. I hate selling guns but sometimes its necessary.
I've regretted several. I tried very hard to chase down an old Sig P239 that I sold off many moons ago. Still remember the serial number. As best I can tell, the guy I sold it to retired and moved out of state. I wonder if he's still alive. I did some pretty invasive OSINT searching but never got anywhere with various phone calls and emails. He bought it for his wife as I recall. Still have a holster for it. Don't want another P239, just want that P239.
He had a lot of stock in Remington at the time as well as another ammunition company I forget off head. Obama was a smart politician the left always say they are going to ban them for votes from the far left and people that are not fully educated on them. Every politician knows that they would never be able to ban them too many of them and they have read the constitution and know what the 2nd means. It’s a wedge issue to divide us but both left and right own guns. It’s the states you have to worry about
@@prepstersurvive8240 They will eventually ban the sale of Ar-15s and every other semi auto very soon. As far as the ones already out there, that's another story.
The list of guns that I regret buying is a lot shorter than the list of guns that I regret trading or selling.And the list of guns that I regret not buying when I had an opportunity to.
Bro holy moly!!! If you would not have spoken i would have not have recognized you, you look soo amazing my man! I looked at your thumbnail, and i literally thought i was clicking on a channel i had never seen before. Congratulations sir!!!🎉💪💪
Take a 500 John and be some varmint hunters hero, it’s not always about winning sometimes it’s about learning from our mistakes and just maybe making someone’s day at the same time….or do a raffle fund raiser to a good cause. Love yall and thank you for what you do.
Back in 2012 my dad bought his first AR15s too, I was an unemployed college student at the time so for a long time I just shot his AR15s because he and I very frequently go to the range together. To this day most of the time I am at the range my dad is with me and I'm glad he and I share this hobby. Anyway, he spent $1200 for a Bushmaster Carbon 15 which has a carbon fiber or perhaps polymer lower AND upper and a pencil barrel and an old car15 type stock with a pinned gas block without a fixed front sight. It's as basic as an AR15 can be. That same year he purchased a Stag Arms m4orgery that was basically a Colt 6920 clone. Both guns still work to this day and have been shot quite extensively. If I recall correctly he paid $999 for the stag. Nowadays he and I both assemble our own AR15s when we want a new one. I got lucky insofar that by the time I was able to purchase my own AR15 I had already seen the pitfalls that new buyers make and I was able to avoid them. My first AR15 ended up being a BCM that I still have.
I’m glad you have that gun. I enjoyed the story, you tell it well, and every gun that has a story is worth holding on to or handing down to someone special. That gun taught you something and as long as you’re never $1400 away from flatlining, that’s what matters. Thanks for sharing
I impulse-bought an AR receiver just before Sandy Hook happened. But because of that incident, I couldn't find parts for a long time. I bought whatever parts I could find online, and the rifle was kind of crappy. Fortunately, I upgraded the rifle over the years into something great, and gifted it to a friend's son so that he could have a quality rifle for the next time a ban looms. I also made another impulse buy during Sandy Hook, ordering an M1A barreled receiver from Fulton Armory and a crap ton of mags. No parts, just mags and a barreled action. Took a couple months before I managed to put something functional together. It's one of my favorite rifles now, so it all worked out. My advice is to get whatever semi-autos you REALLY want now, while you still can.
It's crazy that the Clinton ban was a real thing. I'm younger so I remember growing up wondering why Romanian AKs all have thumbhole stocks but american clones had regular pistol grips.
LCP Max. Alright gun. Traded a Glock for it thinking a pocket gun was a better option than a fullsize Glock. Never liked the Max, eventually traded it for a Glock 42 that I do like a lot! I’m a bit of minimalist so I don’t mind losing money on my purchases to get rid of things that don’t make me happy, or worse, make me unhappy to see. If that gun makes you unhappy, John, I’d argue it’s worth losing $600-500 on it to get rid of it. In a way, you’re buying your peace of mind back for $500-600, which can seem like a lot I guess, but I think it’s worth it. But that’s how I think of things with my stuff. Thanks for the video!!!
I ordered my first one 3 weeks before the SH shooting. I managed to dodge the hardware rush, but ammo became pretty scarce. Always better to buy before the time of need.
I take it you aren’t the kind of guy that enjoys getting prone behind a rifle and picking off targets. That looks like a fun rifle to me. Not everything in life needs a practical application.
HA! I bought 3 stripped lowers in 2008 prior to Obama's election. I was having leg surgery and off my feet for a couple months, so the plan was to spend the time buying parts online and assembled as I recuperated. My surgery was on Election Day 2008 and the panic was so bad you couldn't touch an AR rifle, lower nor part for nearly a year after that. Took me 18 months to complete 2 of the 3 builds, a 16" carbine and a 20"A4 clone, I had planned. The 3rd build is also a 24" varminter like yours, except it's a Model 1 upper, YHM freefloat handguard and Magpul stock and grip. I finally finished it in 2022, 14 years after I started that project.
Back them when there was a real threat to our ability to buy semi-auto rifles there were waiting lists that took over a year to fill. Guns were going for insane prices and people for the most part were happy to get something in the general category of what they wanted but rarely got the exact gun they wanted if they got one at all.
Back in the mid 2000's I bought a Sabre Defense heavy varinter. They apparently were caught by the ATF to illegal doings and shortly went out of business. I forgot i even had it until i saw it the other day way back in the corner of a safe. It wears a Leupold MK 4 8.5x25. Remember it was a 1/4 minute shooter with Hornady 75gr and 80gr Amax's. The factory trigger is very very light.
I bought my rock river right before sandy hook. Back when they were still a popular brand. It's been shot a lot and still runs though! It was my gun of shame when I realized I did over pay by quite a bit.
Hey John, I have a purchase that may make you feel a bit better: In the late summer of 2007, as a reward to myself for a long summer of hard work, I decided to buy myself a semi auto "distance gun". The talk of the "SASS" (semi automatic sniper system) wars had filled the magazine's for the previous months and I just had to have one. So I drove 200 miles with a pocket full of cash to the only shop in the area that I knew would have the top two contenders. Upon my arrival I was told that the Knights SR25 in the mk11 mod 1 configuration was not currently available... So, not wanting to wait, I spent just over $2k of 2007 dollars on a DPMS LRT SASS. Not a bad rifle by any stretch, but the following decade saw DPMS become a bit of a laughing stock, while the SR25, that was the same price in 2007, went on to become legendary, and also worth 5x today. Hope that makes you feel a tiny bit better.
yeah my brother bought 3 left hand ones(2 in 224 Valkyrie) nice looking, heavy and long but I guess that's what he wanted. Unfortunately died a year later without getting to enjoy them and in Illinois I'm pretty much stuck with them in back of safe.
John is younger than I thought. I bought my first AR in 1990 and another right after the '94 Federal Assault Weapons Ban was passed. Neither were very good but I didn't regret buying them. In '94 it seemed like the days of the AR were approaching their end. I also bought a similar upper (DTECH) to that super varminter in 2016 but it is in .243 WSSM. With the Berger 108s it really has long legs and is my best long range gun as I don't loose sight of the target upon firing most of the time. The 24" bull barrel also dampens the shaking from my Don Knotts hands. I don't wouldn't carry it far though.
I bought a cmmg lower and a stag flat top AR-15 carbine upper in 2012 just before all that went down. I was only in it five hundo for the upper and one twenty for the lower. Another fifty for the parts kit and 6 position collapsible stock. This was way before PSA was selling dirt cheap rifles. But that 1st gen stag upper is solid.
Right?!?! The only problem I see is needing to get the threads cut for a brake or a can , & even a cheap discovery 5-25 scope will get you out a long way assuming you get some good hand loads 👊🏽
Not really new powders. Slow powders and long barrels are known to give great speeds. Power Pro Varmint, 2000MR, Leverolution, 223CFE, BLC2, Benchmark, and Varget will all get you to the 3k mark with a 24 inch barrel and a 75 grain bullet. This is with a sami spec chamber. If your barrel has a wylde chamber all the easier.
@@rdsii64 That's very optimistic but something tells me there isn't enough case capacity after stuffing a 75gr bullet to fit a magazine in a regular 223 and fall into safe pressures. Might be done in an AI version where you have slightly more combustion area.
@@reloadNshoot In most cases you are right. A 24 to 26 inch barrel and a slow powder will get you there. My favorites are power pro varmint and MR2000. With MR2000 I have come close in my sami chamber 26 inch bolt gun ( it has a 7.7 twist). My next barrel will have a wylde chamber for sure. While I'm here in my 20 inch AR I have gotten 2810 with Leverevolution. A lot of folks don't know about that powder because it wasn't intended for the 223 and there is no published data for it.
Parting it out: Barrel $200-$300 Lower: $150 Trigger: $100 BCG: $100 Upper: $60 Handguard: $50 Gas tube: $20 Amazon scope: $60 So about ~$800 since it's already assembled and assumed working it's a $900-$1000 Rifle. You know if someone wants a varminter.
Copy that, scope is facing correct direction but mount is reversed. Mounting screws should be on ejection port side. With the way it is in the mount, you wouldn’t be able to mount forward enough for correct eye relief. Just my 2 cents, happy holidays.
Man I thought I was the only one that had that thing. I've since rebarreled it with an 18" and turned it into an SPR type deal. It was heavy as all get out but I will say it was a tack driver with that barrel.
yup my first ever AR also was stag arms 2 or 3 yrs ago shoots awesome I then upgraded to a lwrc but I still find myself grabbing stagarms I did soop it up smith enterprise chrome bcg with JP enhanced bolt giessele trigger uhgen 2 with 3x magnifier
2010. That was literally my first AR. I also paid $1400. As a college student, that was soooo much money. But I was excited to have it. It was my attempt at a poor man's psg1.
@ASPextra I like to buy things in what I would call the "best value" category. It offers performance above its price point while avoiding the gucci price tag. A disappointing $500 purchase feels like a waste of $500 (+ the frustration factor) , but a $1500 purchase that makes me happy is never a waste of money. I think a general purpose rifle would be ideal. Something for HD but also works for shooting the odd coyote and plenty of plinking. A 14.5" might be ideal.
All you have to do is swap the upper receiver with a BCM 20" government profile upper or PSA premium upper and you have a M16A4 clone or you can swap it with a M16A2 upper from H&R. I want to build a M16A1, A2 or A4 clone.
I feel this alot. Bought my first ar in early 2013, and mossberg mmr. 900 bucks at a small local hardware store, 1-9 twist. Wasn't a terrible gun as far as guns go, but I quickly realized I'd just wind up taking a bunch of parts off to make it what I wanted so decided to build/assemble any other ar patterns i wanted. Sold it I think a year or so later for 500 I think of fund that endeavor. One I do absolutely regret selling was a stevens 20 ga side by side I bought from a coworker. Claimed it was his dad's and hadn't had a shell put through it ever. Came with a decent sheepskin lined leather case.
My first ar was an armalite target model about 25 years ago. It had a 22 inch heavy (not bull) barrel. It was a tack driver. 5 shots 2 holes touching. Incredible accuracy. The tolerances were too tight. That rifle never shot a whole mag without 3 or 4 issues. Usually stove pipes or fte. It was defonatly my reason for my love of the ak platform.😂
I had an AR-15 pattern target rifle with that same dumb metal tube handguard. Mine had a fluted 18" heavy barrel and was burnt bronze cerakote. Luckily, I was able to trade it for a nice 7 shot S&W 686 .357 combat magnum.
I wish I never bought my psa pa-10 gen 3 it was nothing but a problem. I sold it for a loss, but I was glad to see it go. That thing really got on my nerves
I built a 24" varminter about 20yrs with a Model 1 Sales kit lol. I'd watch a field's groundhog activity and mark their holes with little survey flags, get a big 100 bundle for a few bucks. Come back the next day and snipe lol
I have a similar 2012 purchase. You could just re-barrel the upper and slap a new rail on it. Turn it into something you would use. I did a Recce Rifle setup with mine and turned it into my favorite rifle.
My panic buying was mostly ammo in 2020, never badly overpaid, but I’ve definitely overpaid for some cases of ammo, including $700 for a case of .223. Luckily I’ve never bought a gun that i couldn’t get rid of at a loss less than $150.
That's hilarious, two of my family members went on the same day to get a similar setup with the long bull barrel and rounded handguard and fixed stock. Same with the crappy scope too. Not even sure because it's never been out of the safe for me to see what manufacturer it is. The shame is too great. I think they paid like $1500, which I thought was crazy. The late 90s and early 2000's was a tough time for AR owners, we are in a great age now.
2012 was the year i bought my first rifle(i live in CT, and obviously the big AWB was coming down,) and since i couldn't find an AR anywhere, i ended up having to go with an equally ridiculous rifle, the FN FS2000. And while it's not exactly a safe queen, i am always a bit trepidatious about taking it out to the range, as i just envision all the dude bros and Tier 1 Weekend Operators knudging their friends with their elbow and going, "check out the newb on bench 12." However, it more often draws questions and curiosity, which soon turn into smiles when i ask them, "do you wanna try it?" Lol. But yeah, 24" bull barrel? That's a bit much. Though it makes sense i guess, especially for prairie dogs.
Yep - I have a couple of regrets in the safe, but probably the biggest is a Sig P-320. Bought it as an EDC sidearm (because I've got smaller hands and the concept of swapping the chassis in and out of smaller grips made a lot of sense). Now, given reported problems with accidental discharges, I wouldn't carry it on a bet. I'd MAYBE consider taking it to the range but that would be it.
Yeah. My first ever AR was it. Didn’t know squat about them, just the rifles I was issued. But DPMS cut a deal to our unit because they were from the same state. Rifle cost me $657 in 2007. I traded it to a very generous friend two years later for a pair of WASR AKs.
I definitely have regretted some guns, and I sold them. I took a loss on them too. My mind sees it as, "I now have a few hundred dollars to put towards my family." I get it though many people don't sell their firearms. But if I'm not going to use it, I see it as a loss of potential money I could spend on a firearm that makes me happy, or a nice family fun day that wasn't in the budget.
Look around for a decent scope used if you must, put it on, sight it in with some ammo it likes. That length barrel adds some serious velocity and its free floated in the hand guard setup. It is unlikely a half minute of angle but it might come close with 3 shot groups. Save it for the apocalypse. That nice trigger on the lower just put a upper you like on it. Adjustable collapsible stocks are not exactly the greatest for accuracy. In another couple years you will be able to sell that upper for 1100-bucks with no optic. Target barrel and target recessed crown, that is a top shelf barrel and free floated upper. Or just wait a bit longer and sell them together for what you paid. Price inflation on guns is crazy. Plus they continue to cheapen the product as well. I never worry if I paid too much. Just how much I enjoy the product. Does it do what I bought it for. Where you waste money is on cheap guns. Never really trusted or live up to expectations so people buy a different cheap gun. Buy once cry once. I really like that rifle. I would trash the scope.
I’ve only ever sold 1 gun in my life. Generally if i buy it its because i wanted it, and that doesn’t change often, even the ones i have had problems out of, i cant bring myself to sell even at a reduced price a problem of mine so it can be a problem of theirs. I generally mess with it until i figure out the problem and fix it, then no more problem and it satisfies that want again. So i was fascinated with the 500 magnums since they came out. Im a sucker for cool ridiculous unpractical things sometimes. I dont know how long the 5 hundie had been out, years, probably decades before i actually seen one in person. Was in the gun store getting my wife a new hunting rifle she wanted and there it was. I instantly knew what it was even with the disbelief that one would be on the shelf in my podunk east texas town. It was used, price tag said 1200$. I asked the guy behind the counter if i could hold it, told him i wasnt buying it, but had never seen one in person and i just wanted to have held one. Guy hands it to me and i oogle over it for a min and hand it back thanking him. I go stand beside my wife who just finished the paperwork for her rifle, she looks at me and says mmmmhmmm…. If you want it, get it long as we can swing it. I asked the guy if he had any shells for it and how much. He had 2 boxes of 20 for 60$ each. I told him to ring them up with the pistol and my wifes rifle. When i got home i went in the back yard and exploded some gallon water jugs and one 5 gallon one, shot one box of shells i bought with it. I got to noticing the extractor would go over the shells sometimes instead of extracting, and there was one bore in the cylinder the casings would stick causing an unusual amount of force to have to be used to push the ejector. Upon further inspection i found the extractor guide rod to be bent, thats why it was releasing shells instead of extracting them. So i put it up and a few days later i left for a hitch at work. While i was gone i found a new guide rod and got it in the mail so it would be there when i got back home. To my surprise 5 hundie parts are reasonably priced. I think 32$ for the guide rod. I really was expecting to get raked over the coals because some things you are assumed to have money hemorrhaging from your backside just because you have obtained a certain thing. I also ordered me an array of different shells for it for testing purposes and to have on the shelf for it. So i get home, replace the bent rod, clean and oil the gun, polished the bores of the cylinder and head out with some no bs hard cast 400 gr shells i bought. This was where i learned the defense shells i got with the pistol were downloaded. So i got to experience the 500 in all its glory for 4 whole rounds until it locked up tighter than a snare drum. Hammer wouldnt come back, trigger wouldnt pull, the little bit it would move felt as if a wedge was driven into the tolerances of moving metal parts. So with tears in my eyes and tail tucked i head for the operating table with it again. I completly disassembled it and arranged the parts out on the table in the order of reading a book, cleaning and inspecting as i went looking for what didnt make sense, i dont know the technical name for the pieces, and cant remember what they exactly were responsible for, but there was a bent linkage, a chewed up spring, and a missing spacer after comparing it to exploded diagrams i found online. I put it back together and ordered the parts i needed. They naturally came in the day after i left back out for work. I also ordered some rose wood grips for a j frame against all the disclaimers That even tho they would fit the x frame, it was not ideal and voided the warranty on the grips. But man were they beautiful. So i get back home, fire up the operating table again, tear it down again and replace the broken/missing pieces. Function test it dry under great scrutiny as i cherish my hands arms and life, everything checks out and is lining up in place and time as it should be, feels nice tight and crisp. I take it out the next day to the back yard range and test it out. First shot turned the beautiful wood grips into a loosely held together bundle of once pretty toothpicks. The recoil impulse through that wood was a brutal experience and i immediately understood why the engineers chose such a thick soft cushy hogue grip for it. Quick trip back to the operating table again to change out the grips, and back to testing. I ran 3 boxes of underwood 400gr hardcast through it and the rest of the 350gr defensive shells i got from the gun store. No problems, i finally had the 5 hundie experience i dreamed of. It was good. It stayed in the door of my safe for some years to be drug out for friends to experience and to make noise for 4th of july and new years every year. Fueled a few daydreams of the demoralizing befudlement of the invading army in a red dawn type scenario to have those rounds thudding off tanks and dragging soft armor where soft armor shouldnt be drug if the situation ever called for it. Then one day things got tight and there was great speculation of how the house note was going to be covered. Just had a long chain of unexpected expenses drain us financially. I was at work discussing it with the mrs, she was talking about putting some jewlery of hers in hock as some of her family has done many times. Im not a fan of that, seems like a good way to keep ones self broke. So i told her to see if she could sell the 5 hundie. It should allow enough to fix our immediate problem, it was the least practical firearm in my collection, and also the most valuable money wise. She called the shop we bought it from and asked if they would be interested. They asked her to bring it in. She cleared it and stuffed it in her purse and headed down to the gun shop. She talked to the guy that owned it, explained that we just didnt use it much and that we wanted to sell it. She explained that we had bought it from him years prior. He got excited, he said he wanted it for himself but he has a business to run and reluctantly put it out for sale, he said an hour later it was gone. He asked her to go bring it from the car so he could see it. She said she has it with her. He said again that she could go get it, then it hit him looking at my mrs standing there with her purse having took our consealed carry course through them a few years back. He said that isnt stuffed in that purse is it. She said yep. She said that entire store had all eyes on her as she pulled that i think 8 7/8” barreled 500 magnum out of her purse along with 2.5 boxes of ammo. She said most people were astonished that such an unsuspecting person would have such a machine. The guy running the shop said several times that she would have been the last person he would have expected to pull something like that out. He gave us 850$ for it. I lost out money wise and that hurt, but my family was provided for and i really havent missed it much. I did think about taking it hunting a few times but never did, but that is really the only practical thought i ever had for it other than just cause America. There have been better times since. I might get another one some day just cause that is the only one in my life that willingly got away. Hope you had a merry christmas bubba, thanks for the story and the read if you made it this far.
Why not put the upper in the safe & out an upper of your choice? You could get an old school M16 vibe upper that would go with that butt stock. Or put an adjustable stock & a modern upper. They're like Legos
It’s okay John! I also have an AR that I will forever regret buying but will likely will not sell. Ruger SR556VT. It was my first AR and I didn’t know anything at the time. Went into the shop and told the salesman what my price range was. Told him I wanted to do “precision shooting” and he pulled it off the wall. Didn’t know anything about piston guns or direct impingement. Didn’t know anything about barrel profiles. I learned the hard way. It is a safe queen that rarely gets shot.
@ it’s not a gun I take to the range for target shooting very often. It runs great and shoots pretty accurately too but I have other ARs that I train with that are significantly lighter and more practical for range training. If I start hunting then it may get more use. I’ll never sell it for personal reasons, but even if I wanted to, I’d lose big on it.
I did the same thing, panic bought my first ar pattern rifle (that was a Stag lower, M400upper). I lived in Marxachusetts at the time too, so it was worse🤣 these days, I'd split that up and call it a really cool, 1400$ varminter Upper, that sits in the back with a story, and play Legos with the lower 🤷 like many, I'm wishing i never sold a single pew, including my first Stag😢
the stock, the handguard and barrel length would keep me a mile away from that monstrosity 😂 but a magpul grip, a magpul stock, a nice 15 inch free float handguard and a nice little vortex scope...and you got yourself a nice toy
I like it,I'd keep that buddy haven't seen one of those for years on a shelf however if ya decided too part with for less than 1400 and I regret selling my all original colt sp1 my Vietnam vet buddy sold me 😢 and basically ever other pews I've parted with but everyone runs into tough times
I still see people with similar setups at the gun shows asking more than that for them. I think most are Dpms or Armalite. I surely wouldn't be upset with having it in my collection or paying that much lol I dont mind loosing some money if i can reinvest in something that will make it back and then some.
Jesus John 😂😂😂 that’s crazy- my first AR (and my first gun purchase) was a dpms and it was almost identical to yours, except I had a looooonnng quad rail, a fluted bull barrel and I think it’s a 20” barrel, and I put the same stock and grip on it with a law folder😂 not only that I paid $100 to have the barrel threaded. I think I paid $1200-1300 at the time for it(I was 19 so if had to be around 2013-2014) and was only making $8.25 at a truck stop 😭 I still have it Today (can’t sell it because it’s my first) and yes, sits back of safe, never shoot it anymore. I only bought it because I like videos games and action movies (who doesn’t right?) and I really didn’t understand much about the 2nd. I grew up with guns such as single shot shotguns and bolt action .22 and the rare occasion of the .357 revolver coming out. But I had no idea I could just go and buy an “assault weapon” so naturally, I DID! And to this day the same FFL handles the majority of my transfers. I was warned about the addiction of drugs growing up but never the addiction of guns and I have yet financially recovered since. 😂😂😂
I can relate. I recently went to a couple gun stores trying to sell my Sig 1911. The price they gave me was insane. I’d rather destroy it by using it as a hammer than sell it at such a loss.
1 in 8 twist, varminter... I would bet it is a 223, but could have the looser 5.56 chamber. I don't think he ever said though and don't know what calibers were offered in it with twist rates.
Dont beat yourself up over that purchase John. We all bought stuff in that era that was a questionable purchase in normal times. Those were not normal times. We all felt that squeeze, and that's why anything was hard to get for so long. Dont be ashamed cause you are not the only person. Who made that call. I did aswell. I had an Olympic arms carbine that i wound up selling that i now kick myself for. Like all comments here, i do regret selling any gun I've ever sold because someday you'll want to show and tell, and having the gun is better than showing pics in a magazine or on the web. Keep it. You'll miss it for other reasons than the money, i promise.
I've only regretted buying 1 gun(own 16 total). I've regretted every time I sold one, though (sold 3 of them). I had too, though, bills were tough for me last year.
I've not watched either channel in a while.. good God! John, is that really you!? Wow, your transformation is insane! You are unrecognizable other than the voice! I'm so proud of you, my man!
Thanks! I've been working on it.
I regret selling every gun I've sold. As I've gotten older I realize how valuable each arm is for posterities sake.
Yeah but at a certain point it requires quite a bit of space to store them all so selling them becomes an attractive option. I hate selling guns but sometimes its necessary.
@@armorers_wrench yeah, well not all of us have a gun flow problem.
@@DaAntMan303ffs Lol, it has only recently become a problem.
Same. Gun stores rip you off like pawn stars
I've regretted several. I tried very hard to chase down an old Sig P239 that I sold off many moons ago. Still remember the serial number. As best I can tell, the guy I sold it to retired and moved out of state. I wonder if he's still alive. I did some pretty invasive OSINT searching but never got anywhere with various phone calls and emails. He bought it for his wife as I recall. Still have a holster for it. Don't want another P239, just want that P239.
If I recall correctly, every gun store in the US named Obama "Salesman of the year" back then.
Big time.
He had a lot of stock in Remington at the time as well as another ammunition company I forget off head. Obama was a smart politician the left always say they are going to ban them for votes from the far left and people that are not fully educated on them. Every politician knows that they would never be able to ban them too many of them and they have read the constitution and know what the 2nd means. It’s a wedge issue to divide us but both left and right own guns. It’s the states you have to worry about
@@ASPextra I would no joke buy this too have its super cool
@@prepstersurvive8240 They will eventually ban the sale of Ar-15s and every other semi auto very soon. As far as the ones already out there, that's another story.
Yeah, right wing wackos were really going to water for now reason. trump is a gun grabber, by the way...
The list of guns that I regret buying is a lot shorter than the list of guns that I regret trading or selling.And the list of guns that I regret not buying when I had an opportunity to.
Amen to that!
Still working my way through all the lowers I bought at that time
lol how many did you get? I was a SR in High school at the time so I missed it.
"Caused a bit of a marital discussion" 😄
Bro holy moly!!! If you would not have spoken i would have not have recognized you, you look soo amazing my man! I looked at your thumbnail, and i literally thought i was clicking on a channel i had never seen before. Congratulations sir!!!🎉💪💪
Save it, put a little nicer optic on it and have a no recoil trainer gun and just enjoy it
Haven’t been on this channel is a minute but boy John is looking like hes 25 years old these days 👍🏽
Take a 500 John and be some varmint hunters hero, it’s not always about winning sometimes it’s about learning from our mistakes and just maybe making someone’s day at the same time….or do a raffle fund raiser to a good cause. Love yall and thank you for what you do.
Every time he sees it he'll be able to remember and make sure not to unlearn the mistake though
Back in 2012 my dad bought his first AR15s too, I was an unemployed college student at the time so for a long time I just shot his AR15s because he and I very frequently go to the range together. To this day most of the time I am at the range my dad is with me and I'm glad he and I share this hobby. Anyway, he spent $1200 for a Bushmaster Carbon 15 which has a carbon fiber or perhaps polymer lower AND upper and a pencil barrel and an old car15 type stock with a pinned gas block without a fixed front sight. It's as basic as an AR15 can be. That same year he purchased a Stag Arms m4orgery that was basically a Colt 6920 clone. Both guns still work to this day and have been shot quite extensively. If I recall correctly he paid $999 for the stag.
Nowadays he and I both assemble our own AR15s when we want a new one. I got lucky insofar that by the time I was able to purchase my own AR15 I had already seen the pitfalls that new buyers make and I was able to avoid them. My first AR15 ended up being a BCM that I still have.
These videos are so fun to watch. Please don’t stop doing them 😄
I’m glad you have that gun. I enjoyed the story, you tell it well, and every gun that has a story is worth holding on to or handing down to someone special. That gun taught you something and as long as you’re never $1400 away from flatlining, that’s what matters. Thanks for sharing
John you look Great and Very Happy ! Happy New year. That's a sweet rifle btw
Crazy to see one of these again. I bought one myself as well back in 2011-2012. I remember getting fantastic group with Hornady steel match ammo
I impulse-bought an AR receiver just before Sandy Hook happened. But because of that incident, I couldn't find parts for a long time. I bought whatever parts I could find online, and the rifle was kind of crappy. Fortunately, I upgraded the rifle over the years into something great, and gifted it to a friend's son so that he could have a quality rifle for the next time a ban looms.
I also made another impulse buy during Sandy Hook, ordering an M1A barreled receiver from Fulton Armory and a crap ton of mags. No parts, just mags and a barreled action. Took a couple months before I managed to put something functional together. It's one of my favorite rifles now, so it all worked out.
My advice is to get whatever semi-autos you REALLY want now, while you still can.
It's crazy that the Clinton ban was a real thing. I'm younger so I remember growing up wondering why Romanian AKs all have thumbhole stocks but american clones had regular pistol grips.
I really like the Show&Tell series.
This gun looks like a prototype, or like it has a lightsaber for a barrel 😁
LCP Max. Alright gun. Traded a Glock for it thinking a pocket gun was a better option than a fullsize Glock. Never liked the Max, eventually traded it for a Glock 42 that I do like a lot! I’m a bit of minimalist so I don’t mind losing money on my purchases to get rid of things that don’t make me happy, or worse, make me unhappy to see. If that gun makes you unhappy, John, I’d argue it’s worth losing $600-500 on it to get rid of it. In a way, you’re buying your peace of mind back for $500-600, which can seem like a lot I guess, but I think it’s worth it. But that’s how I think of things with my stuff. Thanks for the video!!!
I ordered my first one 3 weeks before the SH shooting. I managed to dodge the hardware rush, but ammo became pretty scarce. Always better to buy before the time of need.
That's definitely the modern musket.
I take it you aren’t the kind of guy that enjoys getting prone behind a rifle and picking off targets. That looks like a fun rifle to me. Not everything in life needs a practical application.
Yeah I mean if I was into long range target shooting it wouldn't be bad, but I would still be mad at what I paid for it!
I own that rifle and it pounds nails
HA! I bought 3 stripped lowers in 2008 prior to Obama's election. I was having leg surgery and off my feet for a couple months, so the plan was to spend the time buying parts online and assembled as I recuperated. My surgery was on Election Day 2008 and the panic was so bad you couldn't touch an AR rifle, lower nor part for nearly a year after that. Took me 18 months to complete 2 of the 3 builds, a 16" carbine and a 20"A4 clone, I had planned.
The 3rd build is also a 24" varminter like yours, except it's a Model 1 upper, YHM freefloat handguard and Magpul stock and grip. I finally finished it in 2022, 14 years after I started that project.
You’re looking healthy John. I just recently lost 30lbs. With less food and more faith. Wishing you and your family & crew a Merry Christmas! 🎄
Back them when there was a real threat to our ability to buy semi-auto rifles there were waiting lists that took over a year to fill. Guns were going for insane prices and people for the most part were happy to get something in the general category of what they wanted but rarely got the exact gun they wanted if they got one at all.
I remember!
I like the Hogue furniture and the stock.... The forend can be replaced with parts where you can actually add attachments.
Back in the mid 2000's I bought a Sabre Defense heavy varinter. They apparently were caught by the ATF to illegal doings and shortly went out of business. I forgot i even had it until i saw it the other day way back in the corner of a safe. It wears a Leupold MK 4 8.5x25. Remember it was a 1/4 minute shooter with Hornady 75gr and 80gr Amax's. The factory trigger is very very light.
I bought my rock river right before sandy hook. Back when they were still a popular brand. It's been shot a lot and still runs though! It was my gun of shame when I realized I did over pay by quite a bit.
Holy moly John, you look fantastic man! I'm so glad you got serious about your weight brother.
Hey John, I have a purchase that may make you feel a bit better:
In the late summer of 2007, as a reward to myself for a long summer of hard work, I decided to buy myself a semi auto "distance gun". The talk of the "SASS" (semi automatic sniper system) wars had filled the magazine's for the previous months and I just had to have one. So I drove 200 miles with a pocket full of cash to the only shop in the area that I knew would have the top two contenders. Upon my arrival I was told that the Knights SR25 in the mk11 mod 1 configuration was not currently available... So, not wanting to wait, I spent just over $2k of 2007 dollars on a DPMS LRT SASS. Not a bad rifle by any stretch, but the following decade saw DPMS become a bit of a laughing stock, while the SR25, that was the same price in 2007, went on to become legendary, and also worth 5x today.
Hope that makes you feel a tiny bit better.
Oof.
sell the upper
yeah my brother bought 3 left hand ones(2 in 224 Valkyrie) nice looking, heavy and long but I guess that's what he wanted. Unfortunately died a year later without getting to enjoy them and in Illinois I'm pretty much stuck with them in back of safe.
I bought a similar rifle, a DPMS 7.62, 24" bull barrel, it's a very accurate rifle. Paid 1k for it just before that time period, still love that gun.
John is younger than I thought. I bought my first AR in 1990 and another right after the '94 Federal Assault Weapons Ban was passed. Neither were very good but I didn't regret buying them. In '94 it seemed like the days of the AR were approaching their end. I also bought a similar upper (DTECH) to that super varminter in 2016 but it is in .243 WSSM. With the Berger 108s it really has long legs and is my best long range gun as I don't loose sight of the target upon firing most of the time. The 24" bull barrel also dampens the shaking from my Don Knotts hands. I don't wouldn't carry it far though.
I bought a cmmg lower and a stag flat top AR-15 carbine upper in 2012 just before all that went down. I was only in it five hundo for the upper and one twenty for the lower. Another fifty for the parts kit and 6 position collapsible stock. This was way before PSA was selling dirt cheap rifles. But that 1st gen stag upper is solid.
So I got a fully engraved uberti 45 colt and I never use it... Shot it once... But I love to look at it
My Ruger Redhawk in 44 from 98 is always the one I miss the most
Bought my first AR15 in Feb of 2012. It immediately got a Timney 3# Match trigger and a Leupold scope.
You could get 3000 fps with 75 grain tmk's with that set up and stay with in safe pressures.
Whats not to love?
Right?!?! The only problem I see is needing to get the threads cut for a brake or a can , & even a cheap discovery 5-25 scope will get you out a long way assuming you get some good hand loads 👊🏽
Is there some kind of new powder that can achieve this?
Not really new powders. Slow powders and long barrels are known to give great speeds. Power Pro Varmint, 2000MR, Leverolution, 223CFE, BLC2, Benchmark, and Varget will all get you to the 3k mark with a 24 inch barrel and a 75 grain bullet. This is with a sami spec chamber. If your barrel has a wylde chamber all the easier.
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That's very optimistic but something tells me there isn't enough case capacity after stuffing a 75gr bullet to fit a magazine in a regular 223 and fall into safe pressures. Might be done in an AI version where you have slightly more combustion area.
@@reloadNshoot In most cases you are right. A 24 to 26 inch barrel and a slow powder will get you there. My favorites are power pro varmint and MR2000. With MR2000 I have come close in my sami chamber 26 inch bolt gun ( it has a 7.7 twist).
My next barrel will have a wylde chamber for sure. While I'm here in my 20 inch AR I have gotten 2810 with Leverevolution. A lot of folks don't know about that powder because it wasn't intended for the 223 and there is no published data for it.
Parting it out:
Barrel $200-$300
Lower: $150
Trigger: $100
BCG: $100
Upper: $60
Handguard: $50
Gas tube: $20
Amazon scope: $60
So about ~$800 since it's already assembled and assumed working it's a $900-$1000 Rifle. You know if someone wants a varminter.
If I had to say it would be the PTR cetme rifle, I bought a few years back.
That set-up was one of my dream gun set-ups. I set may build one some day.
Not sure what the eye relief on that scope is, or mount that is, but the mount looks like it’s mounted backwards…. lol
Yeah it actually isn't backward but the scope is mounted wrong. I was stupid at the time.
Copy that, scope is facing correct direction but mount is reversed. Mounting screws should be on ejection port side. With the way it is in the mount, you wouldn’t be able to mount forward enough for correct eye relief. Just my 2 cents, happy holidays.
This is some quality content. God bless you brother. Plan on making more vids like this?
Glad you liked it, yes I do have a few more ideas of this nature.
Man I thought I was the only one that had that thing. I've since rebarreled it with an 18" and turned it into an SPR type deal. It was heavy as all get out but I will say it was a tack driver with that barrel.
Those are fun rifles
I recently put together a 24" upper for shooting steel at distance and the occasional critters.
yup my first ever AR also was stag arms 2 or 3 yrs ago shoots awesome I then upgraded to a lwrc but I still find myself grabbing stagarms I did soop it up smith enterprise chrome bcg with JP enhanced bolt giessele trigger uhgen 2 with 3x magnifier
2010. That was literally my first AR. I also paid $1400. As a college student, that was soooo much money. But I was excited to have it. It was my attempt at a poor man's psg1.
I too regret selling every firearm I ever sold. So I got this 20" aero I am looking to sell to fund another build. Any takers?
Have a similar upper. Wish it had a threaded barrel so I could suppress it. Just too cheap to do it for a rifle I never shoot.
John, what are the AR15 rifles that you would recommend?
Depends on for what purpose, Mike. And budget, of course. :)
@ASPextra I like to buy things in what I would call the "best value" category. It offers performance above its price point while avoiding the gucci price tag. A disappointing $500 purchase feels like a waste of $500 (+ the frustration factor) , but a $1500 purchase that makes me happy is never a waste of money. I think a general purpose rifle would be ideal. Something for HD but also works for shooting the odd coyote and plenty of plinking. A 14.5" might be ideal.
In that budget I would stick with something like a BCM or Daniel Defense.
It is modular. Keep it and change upper.
All you have to do is swap the upper receiver with a BCM 20" government profile upper or PSA premium upper and you have a M16A4 clone or you can swap it with a M16A2 upper from H&R.
I want to build a M16A1, A2 or A4 clone.
Cool rifle.
Man… I haven’t watched in a year or better (sorry)… but you look great! Like 10 years younger great. Keep up the good work, dude!
Appreciate the kind words, and glad you're back on board!
I feel this alot. Bought my first ar in early 2013, and mossberg mmr. 900 bucks at a small local hardware store, 1-9 twist. Wasn't a terrible gun as far as guns go, but I quickly realized I'd just wind up taking a bunch of parts off to make it what I wanted so decided to build/assemble any other ar patterns i wanted. Sold it I think a year or so later for 500 I think of fund that endeavor.
One I do absolutely regret selling was a stevens 20 ga side by side I bought from a coworker. Claimed it was his dad's and hadn't had a shell put through it ever. Came with a decent sheepskin lined leather case.
My first ar was an armalite target model about 25 years ago. It had a 22 inch heavy (not bull) barrel. It was a tack driver. 5 shots 2 holes touching. Incredible accuracy. The tolerances were too tight. That rifle never shot a whole mag without 3 or 4 issues. Usually stove pipes or fte. It was defonatly my reason for my love of the ak platform.😂
This is a very similar build to the very First rifle I've ever Fired ! Stock, Handgaurd and barrel are identical.
I had an AR-15 pattern target rifle with that same dumb metal tube handguard. Mine had a fluted 18" heavy barrel and was burnt bronze cerakote. Luckily, I was able to trade it for a nice 7 shot S&W 686 .357 combat magnum.
I wish I never bought my psa pa-10 gen 3 it was nothing but a problem. I sold it for a loss, but I was glad to see it go. That thing really got on my nerves
I built a 24" varminter about 20yrs with a Model 1 Sales kit lol. I'd watch a field's groundhog activity and mark their holes with little survey flags, get a big 100 bundle for a few bucks. Come back the next day and snipe lol
Well... I did trade an old Sig 220 away that I miss...however I gained a Smith and Wesson model 19-6 that I love as well.
I have a similar 2012 purchase. You could just re-barrel the upper and slap a new rail on it. Turn it into something you would use. I did a Recce Rifle setup with mine and turned it into my favorite rifle.
😊I assume it has a rifle gas system and buffer. Not common and worth keeping for that alone. I love how my Stag rifle length gas system shoots.
I have a DPMS REPR and I feel the same kind of way about it.
My panic buying was mostly ammo in 2020, never badly overpaid, but I’ve definitely overpaid for some cases of ammo, including $700 for a case of .223.
Luckily I’ve never bought a gun that i couldn’t get rid of at a loss less than $150.
That's hilarious, two of my family members went on the same day to get a similar setup with the long bull barrel and rounded handguard and fixed stock. Same with the crappy scope too. Not even sure because it's never been out of the safe for me to see what manufacturer it is. The shame is too great. I think they paid like $1500, which I thought was crazy. The late 90s and early 2000's was a tough time for AR owners, we are in a great age now.
I've got a coyote model from an other builder. Same kinda story.
2012 was the year i bought my first rifle(i live in CT, and obviously the big AWB was coming down,) and since i couldn't find an AR anywhere, i ended up having to go with an equally ridiculous rifle, the FN FS2000. And while it's not exactly a safe queen, i am always a bit trepidatious about taking it out to the range, as i just envision all the dude bros and Tier 1 Weekend Operators knudging their friends with their elbow and going, "check out the newb on bench 12."
However, it more often draws questions and curiosity, which soon turn into smiles when i ask them, "do you wanna try it?" Lol.
But yeah, 24" bull barrel? That's a bit much. Though it makes sense i guess, especially for prairie dogs.
Dang 1400 is insane!! You could build a decent setup for that.
I have a PSA upper that I bought during covid. I paid $600, and you can get the same one now for $400. Not a huge loss, but it still gets me a little.
Yep - I have a couple of regrets in the safe, but probably the biggest is a Sig P-320. Bought it as an EDC sidearm (because I've got smaller hands and the concept of swapping the chassis in and out of smaller grips made a lot of sense).
Now, given reported problems with accidental discharges, I wouldn't carry it on a bet. I'd MAYBE consider taking it to the range but that would be it.
I feel that!
Yeah. My first ever AR was it. Didn’t know squat about them, just the rifles I was issued. But DPMS cut a deal to our unit because they were from the same state. Rifle cost me $657 in 2007. I traded it to a very generous friend two years later for a pair of WASR AKs.
I definitely have regretted some guns, and I sold them. I took a loss on them too. My mind sees it as, "I now have a few hundred dollars to put towards my family." I get it though many people don't sell their firearms. But if I'm not going to use it, I see it as a loss of potential money I could spend on a firearm that makes me happy, or a nice family fun day that wasn't in the budget.
lol that thing is WILD
I really would like the upper
Criterion makes a 24" 1/8 bull barrel that I want. It weighs 5 lbs.
Half at what.100. I built one a few years back. 24 inch 1-8 . hand load 80gr at 100 quarter inch groups.
lol, similar story- 2012 time bought a a bushmaster 556 California complaint AR for $1400. Ammo bros Cerritos CA
Ugh!
Look around for a decent scope used if you must, put it on, sight it in with some ammo it likes. That length barrel adds some serious velocity and its free floated in the hand guard setup. It is unlikely a half minute of angle but it might come close with 3 shot groups. Save it for the apocalypse. That nice trigger on the lower just put a upper you like on it. Adjustable collapsible stocks are not exactly the greatest for accuracy. In another couple years you will be able to sell that upper for 1100-bucks with no optic. Target barrel and target recessed crown, that is a top shelf barrel and free floated upper. Or just wait a bit longer and sell them together for what you paid. Price inflation on guns is crazy. Plus they continue to cheapen the product as well. I never worry if I paid too much. Just how much I enjoy the product. Does it do what I bought it for. Where you waste money is on cheap guns. Never really trusted or live up to expectations so people buy a different cheap gun. Buy once cry once. I really like that rifle. I would trash the scope.
I’ve only ever sold 1 gun in my life. Generally if i buy it its because i wanted it, and that doesn’t change often, even the ones i have had problems out of, i cant bring myself to sell even at a reduced price a problem of mine so it can be a problem of theirs. I generally mess with it until i figure out the problem and fix it, then no more problem and it satisfies that want again. So i was fascinated with the 500 magnums since they came out. Im a sucker for cool ridiculous unpractical things sometimes. I dont know how long the 5 hundie had been out, years, probably decades before i actually seen one in person. Was in the gun store getting my wife a new hunting rifle she wanted and there it was. I instantly knew what it was even with the disbelief that one would be on the shelf in my podunk east texas town. It was used, price tag said 1200$. I asked the guy behind the counter if i could hold it, told him i wasnt buying it, but had never seen one in person and i just wanted to have held one. Guy hands it to me and i oogle over it for a min and hand it back thanking him. I go stand beside my wife who just finished the paperwork for her rifle, she looks at me and says mmmmhmmm…. If you want it, get it long as we can swing it. I asked the guy if he had any shells for it and how much. He had 2 boxes of 20 for 60$ each. I told him to ring them up with the pistol and my wifes rifle. When i got home i went in the back yard and exploded some gallon water jugs and one 5 gallon one, shot one box of shells i bought with it. I got to noticing the extractor would go over the shells sometimes instead of extracting, and there was one bore in the cylinder the casings would stick causing an unusual amount of force to have to be used to push the ejector. Upon further inspection i found the extractor guide rod to be bent, thats why it was releasing shells instead of extracting them. So i put it up and a few days later i left for a hitch at work. While i was gone i found a new guide rod and got it in the mail so it would be there when i got back home. To my surprise 5 hundie parts are reasonably priced. I think 32$ for the guide rod. I really was expecting to get raked over the coals because some things you are assumed to have money hemorrhaging from your backside just because you have obtained a certain thing. I also ordered me an array of different shells for it for testing purposes and to have on the shelf for it. So i get home, replace the bent rod, clean and oil the gun, polished the bores of the cylinder and head out with some no bs hard cast 400 gr shells i bought. This was where i learned the defense shells i got with the pistol were downloaded. So i got to experience the 500 in all its glory for 4 whole rounds until it locked up tighter than a snare drum. Hammer wouldnt come back, trigger wouldnt pull, the little bit it would move felt as if a wedge was driven into the tolerances of moving metal parts. So with tears in my eyes and tail tucked i head for the operating table with it again. I completly disassembled it and arranged the parts out on the table in the order of reading a book, cleaning and inspecting as i went looking for what didnt make sense, i dont know the technical name for the pieces, and cant remember what they exactly were responsible for, but there was a bent linkage, a chewed up spring, and a missing spacer after comparing it to exploded diagrams i found online. I put it back together and ordered the parts i needed. They naturally came in the day after i left back out for work. I also ordered some rose wood grips for a j frame against all the disclaimers That even tho they would fit the x frame, it was not ideal and voided the warranty on the grips. But man were they beautiful. So i get back home, fire up the operating table again, tear it down again and replace the broken/missing pieces. Function test it dry under great scrutiny as i cherish my hands arms and life, everything checks out and is lining up in place and time as it should be, feels nice tight and crisp. I take it out the next day to the back yard range and test it out. First shot turned the beautiful wood grips into a loosely held together bundle of once pretty toothpicks. The recoil impulse through that wood was a brutal experience and i immediately understood why the engineers chose such a thick soft cushy hogue grip for it. Quick trip back to the operating table again to change out the grips, and back to testing. I ran 3 boxes of underwood 400gr hardcast through it and the rest of the 350gr defensive shells i got from the gun store. No problems, i finally had the 5 hundie experience i dreamed of. It was good. It stayed in the door of my safe for some years to be drug out for friends to experience and to make noise for 4th of july and new years every year. Fueled a few daydreams of the demoralizing befudlement of the invading army in a red dawn type scenario to have those rounds thudding off tanks and dragging soft armor where soft armor shouldnt be drug if the situation ever called for it. Then one day things got tight and there was great speculation of how the house note was going to be covered. Just had a long chain of unexpected expenses drain us financially. I was at work discussing it with the mrs, she was talking about putting some jewlery of hers in hock as some of her family has done many times. Im not a fan of that, seems like a good way to keep ones self broke. So i told her to see if she could sell the 5 hundie. It should allow enough to fix our immediate problem, it was the least practical firearm in my collection, and also the most valuable money wise. She called the shop we bought it from and asked if they would be interested. They asked her to bring it in. She cleared it and stuffed it in her purse and headed down to the gun shop. She talked to the guy that owned it, explained that we just didnt use it much and that we wanted to sell it. She explained that we had bought it from him years prior. He got excited, he said he wanted it for himself but he has a business to run and reluctantly put it out for sale, he said an hour later it was gone. He asked her to go bring it from the car so he could see it. She said she has it with her. He said again that she could go get it, then it hit him looking at my mrs standing there with her purse having took our consealed carry course through them a few years back. He said that isnt stuffed in that purse is it. She said yep. She said that entire store had all eyes on her as she pulled that i think 8 7/8” barreled 500 magnum out of her purse along with 2.5 boxes of ammo. She said most people were astonished that such an unsuspecting person would have such a machine. The guy running the shop said several times that she would have been the last person he would have expected to pull something like that out. He gave us 850$ for it. I lost out money wise and that hurt, but my family was provided for and i really havent missed it much. I did think about taking it hunting a few times but never did, but that is really the only practical thought i ever had for it other than just cause America. There have been better times since. I might get another one some day just cause that is the only one in my life that willingly got away. Hope you had a merry christmas bubba, thanks for the story and the read if you made it this far.
Why not put the upper in the safe & out an upper of your choice? You could get an old school M16 vibe upper that would go with that butt stock. Or put an adjustable stock & a modern upper. They're like Legos
It’s okay John! I also have an AR that I will forever regret buying but will likely will not sell. Ruger SR556VT. It was my first AR and I didn’t know anything at the time. Went into the shop and told the salesman what my price range was. Told him I wanted to do “precision shooting” and he pulled it off the wall. Didn’t know anything about piston guns or direct impingement. Didn’t know anything about barrel profiles. I learned the hard way. It is a safe queen that rarely gets shot.
Uhh, the sr556 is a gem, even in VT, tf are you talking about? I sold my carbine model years ago and regret it every single day.
@ it’s not a gun I take to the range for target shooting very often. It runs great and shoots pretty accurately too but I have other ARs that I train with that are significantly lighter and more practical for range training. If I start hunting then it may get more use. I’ll never sell it for personal reasons, but even if I wanted to, I’d lose big on it.
I did the same thing, panic bought my first ar pattern rifle (that was a Stag lower, M400upper). I lived in Marxachusetts at the time too, so it was worse🤣 these days, I'd split that up and call it a really cool, 1400$ varminter Upper, that sits in the back with a story, and play Legos with the lower 🤷 like many, I'm wishing i never sold a single pew, including my first Stag😢
Would you consider selling it autographed by John Correia?
I mean, sure. Seems weird, but yes I guess.
Throw a different upper on it. Psa uppers start
the stock, the handguard and barrel length would keep me a mile away from that monstrosity 😂 but a magpul grip, a magpul stock, a nice 15 inch free float handguard and a nice little vortex scope...and you got yourself a nice toy
I like it,I'd keep that buddy haven't seen one of those for years on a shelf however if ya decided too part with for less than 1400 and I regret selling my all original colt sp1 my Vietnam vet buddy sold me 😢 and basically ever other pews I've parted with but everyone runs into tough times
Niner Gang!!!
Bang bang!
I still see people with similar setups at the gun shows asking more than that for them. I think most are Dpms or Armalite. I surely wouldn't be upset with having it in my collection or paying that much lol I dont mind loosing some money if i can reinvest in something that will make it back and then some.
No gun purchase regret, but one sale regret… had a very nice A1 replica that I sold, and wish I had not.
Hilarious! Gotta love that A2 stock. You actually could probably make a nice DMR out of that rifle with some minor changes. See you at Camp Perry.
Don't even gotta aim it...it's so long you can just lean it up against the target and press the trigger!
@@ASPextra LOL!!!!
Its just easier to buy more safes than to decide to let things go or admit you shouldn't have bought them.
PLEASE TELL THIS TO MY WIFE!!! :)
Jesus John 😂😂😂 that’s crazy- my first AR (and my first gun purchase) was a dpms and it was almost identical to yours, except I had a looooonnng quad rail, a fluted bull barrel and I think it’s a 20” barrel, and I put the same stock and grip on it with a law folder😂 not only that I paid $100 to have the barrel threaded. I think I paid $1200-1300 at the time for it(I was 19 so if had to be around 2013-2014) and was only making $8.25 at a truck stop 😭 I still have it Today (can’t sell it because it’s my first) and yes, sits back of safe, never shoot it anymore. I only bought it because I like videos games and action movies (who doesn’t right?) and I really didn’t understand much about the 2nd. I grew up with guns such as single shot shotguns and bolt action .22 and the rare occasion of the .357 revolver coming out. But I had no idea I could just go and buy an “assault weapon” so naturally, I DID! And to this day the same FFL handles the majority of my transfers. I was warned about the addiction of drugs growing up but never the addiction of guns and I have yet financially recovered since. 😂😂😂
Looks like my gen 1 dpms lr 308
I can relate. I recently went to a couple gun stores trying to sell my Sig 1911. The price they gave me was insane. I’d rather destroy it by using it as a hammer than sell it at such a loss.
We bullied you into weight loss, that’s awesome. Looking good dude!
No, you most certainly did not.
Did I miss what the caliber was?
1 in 8 twist, varminter... I would bet it is a 223, but could have the looser 5.56 chamber. I don't think he ever said though and don't know what calibers were offered in it with twist rates.
5.56
Dont beat yourself up over that purchase John. We all bought stuff in that era that was a questionable purchase in normal times. Those were not normal times. We all felt that squeeze, and that's why anything was hard to get for so long. Dont be ashamed cause you are not the only person. Who made that call. I did aswell. I had an Olympic arms carbine that i wound up selling that i now kick myself for. Like all comments here, i do regret selling any gun I've ever sold because someday you'll want to show and tell, and having the gun is better than showing pics in a magazine or on the web. Keep it. You'll miss it for other reasons than the money, i promise.
I clicked on this video because holy shit dude you've lost so much weight. You're a totally different dude. Congrats! Wowb
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I've only regretted buying 1 gun(own 16 total). I've regretted every time I sold one, though (sold 3 of them). I had too, though, bills were tough for me last year.
Totally get all of that!