Last Note on AR Setup AccessoriesĪ last note on accessories, there are so many available and in such a variety it’s hard to know what is best and actually needed, so it’s easy to overload your gun, and your budget. I finished it off with the Geissele Automatics Super Dynamic Three Gun trigger, just because its butter smooth and has an amazingly short reset. A Primary Arms fixed 3X scope with the ACSS reticle and a 3.5 MOA Docter mini red dot mount at 12 O’clock, all this on a throw lever mount and folding iron sights.Ī single/double point sling is mounted to the receiver end plate. The 15″ free floated fore end mounts a Surefire light. An angled foregrip, Ledesma featureless grip, and a pinned Mil-Spec SOCOM buttstock round out the “featureless” requirements. The backcountry gun has a 16″ Wilson Combat barrel with a Yankee Hill Machine Phantom comp/brake at the business end. I have a 15’’ key mod free floated fore-end and MBUS back up iron sights at lower 1/3 co-witness for fast target acquisition.

A Sig Romeo 5 red dot sight, Surefire flashlight, a lightweight single point sling attached and gathered to the stock with a rubber band. My house gun has a 12.5’’ CMMG barrel in 300 BLK with a pinned and welded Kaw Valley linear comp (total barrel length just over 16 inches)–legal and almost hearing safe!Ī pinned GI collapsible stock, angled fore grip and a La Desma Arms Featureless Grip, to stay legal. Since reloading is fundamental, I went with a version of “featureless.” The “House” AR Setup I can’t have “Evil Features” on my AR setup that, apparently, make you uncontrollably want to kill, like flash hiders, vertical foregrips, pistol grips or adjustable buttstocks on a semi-auto rifle with a detachable magazine. That said about my “recommended” setup, the fact that I live in an unconstitutional, nanny state, I’m forced to make a few deviations from optimum to comply with local laws.

Just remember light is right, as long as it’s safe, rugged, and reliable. I would finish this AR setup with a weapon-mounted flashlight and a vertical foregrip.Īs for other stuff like lasers, race triggers, buttstocks, bipods, slings, bayonets, etc., that’s up to your personal preference as long as you train with it.

This rifle would have a 14-16″ barrel and a Vortex flash hider, medium power scope (3x or 4X fixed, 1-6 or 2-7 variable) with a mini red dot sight mounted at 12 O’clock. Subsonic (220 grain) rounds through a Kaw Valley linear comp, which directs gasses forward, while not being what you would call quiet, are much less ear-blasting than 5.56 from a short barrel.įor a situation where contact distances may be much longer, I would opt for 77 grain Black Hills open tip match ammo in a 5.56mm rifle. My Recommended AR Setupģ00 AAC Blackout (BLK) has great ballistic effect at close range and will have less flash and noise. For the house, if I lived in a free state, I would prefer a short-barreled rifle (SBR) or an AR pistol in 300 BLK with a suppressor or linear compensator, subsonic ammo, red dot sight, and a weapon-mounted flashlight. The answer to the best defensive AR setup will depend on what you are defending.

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