An Idea to Dress Up An AR

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Mordwyn.45

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I was thinking earlier this morning, I know it's a dangerous thing to do, but hell, you only live once :)

Is there any reason that someone relatively good at wood working could not dress up their AR by replicating the synthetic stock furniture with some nice custom fitted wood furniture?

Not being an AR owner (YET!!) I really don't know the weapon well enough to say that there is a design reason as to why the wood could not work as well as the synthetic, other than it being a bit heavier.

Can any of you “scary evil black gun” owners think of a reason why this wouldn’t work?


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"TANSTAAFL"- R.A. Heinlen

"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Thermopile
 
Mordwyn.45, It does work! There are already wooden stocks available for the AR series. The first I can think of is available from Quality Parts as a laminated thumbhole version. I would like to get this for my long and heavy one @~$200.

There was a cover on an issue of S.W.A.T. magazine (about 15 yrs ago) of an M1 Garand, an M14 and an M16 ALL with BEAUTIFUL walnut stocks! It did make a differance in the apperance of the gun (even prettier), BUT it is only a cosmetic differance. They were all still as evil as walnut and steel can be.

sarcasim off/
anodes.
 
"You can dress up a pig, but you can't make it sing."

Wooden stocks are available for Ar stuff, but they sort of defeat the purpose of having a modern, functional, reliable combat weapon. But then, the entire AR operating system sort of does that to itself anyway, so why not hang some vegetable matter on it as well to pretty it up....
 
Take an FAL dustcover... and a carry handle from a flat top AR and weld them together... then put the handled dust cover on the FAL.
Mount a Trijicon scope...
There you go - best AR in the world.
 
Well I should have relized that such mods have been available for a long time, and I thank you gentlemen for your input both positive and negative.
With that I'd like to officialy smack myself in the forehead and go DOH!! before I retreat back to my lurking seat.



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"TANSTAAFL"- R.A. Heinlen

"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Thermopile
 
No need to retreat. There was no big gaff made here.

But if you feel the need to make penance:

Get some kool pics of ARs outfitted with these stocks and post them here for us to enjoy.
 
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