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I have had three Bushmaster lower receivers and 90% of the parts in the gun safe since 1993 and finally got around to building them. The boys are old enough to shoot now and these are fairly cheap to shoot (I reload so that much cheaper).
I wanted to say thanks to Dave Newton for his advice on building it myself; it was incredibly easy with a minimal investment in tools. I just needed a bench vise ($35 at Sears) and a block to hold the upper receiver (I had one, but it was for an A2 upper and not an A3 flat top) and a set of go-no go gauges and a few hours this evening to assemble two of them. The gas tube on mine was not quite drilled right so I have ordered another.
I think they turned out great as "parts guns" (they all have the same brand of parts in each of them--but not all the same brand for everything). Oldest son's rifle is on the top and youngest on the bottom:
I wanted to say thanks to Dave Newton for his advice on building it myself; it was incredibly easy with a minimal investment in tools. I just needed a bench vise ($35 at Sears) and a block to hold the upper receiver (I had one, but it was for an A2 upper and not an A3 flat top) and a set of go-no go gauges and a few hours this evening to assemble two of them. The gas tube on mine was not quite drilled right so I have ordered another.
I think they turned out great as "parts guns" (they all have the same brand of parts in each of them--but not all the same brand for everything). Oldest son's rifle is on the top and youngest on the bottom: