Best Quality AR for under $500?

[Quickdraw559]

Could you tell between the 1500 and 500 if there were no roll marks or other engravings?

[maxima]

Looks like US Army paid FN only $642 for each M4A1 which is a real mil-spec carbine, includes magazine, sling, and other accessories. And FN can still make a good profit.

https://www.guns.com/news/2013/02/26/fn-lands-army-m4-contract-underbids-colt-remington#:~:text=FN's%20contract%20with%20the%20Army,for%20the%20U.S.%20armed%20forces.

[W.R.Buchanan]

So it was too deep for ya? Maybe reread the OP,,, just for Context ?

Randy

[Rifle ronin]

Triggers and hand guards and stocks... yeah. Some barrels, sure but there are expensive barrels that aren’t spectacularly accurate too. When it is an AR you have to use “hobby-grade”, “milspec”, “enhanced”, etc... to really drive the feels home... the feels fight off buyers remorse. I wouldn’t mind having few a tier one uppers as long as they are so enhanced that they are proprietary and so expensive that they cannot be fixed with milspec parts... but haven’t you heard? Those are so tough they won’t break ever.

I was thinking reciever, lowers, barrels, buffer tubes and possibly bcg's with no identifying marks.

With barrels, I guess you could see if it had chrome lining which could give you some clue, but you would have to shoot it to really know. I suppose some bcg"s maybe identified by sight, not including anything besides full auto bcg.

For continuity, I am speaking of, IF high tier and low tier parts had their identifying marks withheld.