I happened to fall into a deal that I couldn't pass up. A guy I sold some parts to had a builders kit for an AR10. He mentioned he was trying to sell it to make some space on his workbench. We'll, a few texts back and forth and I was able to trade a 1/10 ounce of gold for a mostly complete AR10. It turns out it's all Aero Precision Parts, except he bought an AR15 buffer and stock kit for it, so it needed the correct 308 buffer in it, and a handguard. I noticed the gas key was slightly bent as well, it looked like the BCG had been dropped and landed on the gas key, so I picked up a replacement key and a new gas tube for it.
A few hours in the garage this weekend and I now have a full Aero Precision AR10. Most of that time felt like it was shimming the keymo adapter properly. Lol. No assortment of shims wanted to give me the proper clocking, but I finally got it perfect.
Looking forward to hitting the range with it soon, but based on 308 cost, I doubt I'll end up using it that much. Most of my inventory of 308 is match ammo, which I don't want to waste, so I'll have to pick up some 'cheap' stuff to use.
I ended up topping it with a 6-18 Nikon Prostaff that I had laying around, should be more than sufficient for this rifles purpose.
The vice was just for the pic, that's not what I used to assemble everything.
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