Upper help please?

[Gary O]

I'm just about finished with my OLL build for here in Kalif. Now I need to start thinking about the upper that best suits my needs. This rifle will be used for hunting ground squirrels and rock chucks out here in the West, so a scope is primary. However, I am not blind to the needs of a SHTF/post Katrina culture where open sight are needed. Can you folks offer some suggestions about how I should go? As usual, money is a consideration around here. God bless...
Gary

[Mark_in_Pasadena]

Gary,

This is the beauty of the AR-15, the configurations are endless. I personally have a DPMS thru a group buy that Priate14 did at the beginning of the year and love it.

Rock River, DPMS, etc etc are all great uppers. I would search around their websites and see what you like, because you're going to get a ton of different opinions on this matter.

Good luck,

Mark

[James R.]

I'm just about finished with my OLL build for here in Kalif. Now I need to start thinking about the upper that best suits my needs. This rifle will be used for hunting ground squirrels and rock chucks out here in the West, so a scope is primary. However, I am not blind to the needs of a SHTF/post Katrina culture where open sight are needed. Can you folks offer some suggestions about how I should go? As usual, money is a consideration around here. God bless...
Gary

DPMS seems decent, I got one of these when they were on sale for $399 and it was IMHO a steal at that price. I did have a bit of an initial quality issue in that the front gas block was a teeny tiny bit misaligned. DPMS replaced the entire upper, took them a few weeks but they did stand behind the product. For another 20 bux you can get one with a 20" barrel instead of this 16". They're currently about $450 which is still a pretty good price for a heavy barrel upper like that.

http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=496810

Here's my build based on that upper. It's a bit of an odd combo, I'll probably pull the EO Tech and put it on a more tacticool upper on one of my other lowers depending on how things go with the law and all.



Regards,

James R.

[Fjold]

Go with the flat top and folding iron sights then add a tall scope mount that has the thumbscrew detachable attachment. I'd go with the 20" HBar instead of the bull barrel. The upper gun here has the thumbscrew detachable scope mount. A set of foliding sights would make it dual purpose except for the heavy bull barrel.