Celebrating the Armalite AR-180
I just received an email from a good friend alerting me to a shorty AR-18 that is up for auction but to fully appreciate it we need to check out an article in Small Arms Review titled “The Lost Armalites”
A5689 sold last year Click Here For Details
The Subject of this post is serial number 021.
I will do a deep analysis of this gun in a follow up article. Stay tuned and subscribe!
What’s been happening since I have posted last?
Well I have worked out a multi gun + cash trade for an AR-18. Should be sending the final paperwork off this weekend. Just gotta get my fingerprint cards and photos taken care of tomorrow.
Other than that busy cleaning the shop so I can actually do some work when I get home from work on the weekends, unless I also have to work on the weekends. I think you get my drift.
Since an AR-18 is incoming a shorty upper must be part of the plan as well.
I was lent some forming tools to make a new and pretty close to proper front hand guard retainer. First try is looking not terrible. I used thinner gauge material but I will bump that up for the next one.
And in other news Youtube finally caught up with me and removed my video that shows how to build the Nodak NDS-18S lower.
Not sure where I can host it now but I am looking at options.
Decided to play with a jig to bend uppers. Whatcha think?
I’ve had several people email me asking what 3D printer I am using.
The Monoprice Select Plus has served me very well over the last few months. I have done very little to modify it other than to add a different type of spool holder. I am providing an Amazon link below if any one is interested in picking one up themselves.
I have the final version of the AR180S pistol grips design ready to go and hope to get a few printed off this weekend. Each one takes about 15 hours to print so it will be awhile before I have them ready to sell. My plan is to get a small batch together then put up a for sale post. I don’t want to take money ahead of time or put together a waiting list. I think this will work out best for all parties involved.
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I as well as many others have pondered what the AR-180 would have become if it had the same development as the AR-15.
I think I may have found the answer.
The Remington/Bushmaster ACR Advanced Combat Rifle
Designed by MagPul and named the Masada the rights were sold to, and the civilian version is made by Bushmaster.
I snapped a few pics before I left town but it has many features that are directly decedent from the 180.
Look familiar?
More pics to come and I hope to get them both to the range to compare them side by side.