Bank or Build?

Bank or Build?

  • Bank - they're Gold, Jerry! Gold!

    Votes: 8 66.7%

  • Build - Duh.

    Votes: 4 33.3%
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I just bought 2 of the Aero Precision blem lowers ($80 total, shipped and transferred). I don't really 'need' them, but at that price it was a no-brainer.

So, now the question is do I build them, or bank them against foolishness 15 months from now?

What are y'all doing with stripped lowers these days?
 
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I've banked all 8 of mine.

If I dont need them in 15 months I'll decide what do then.
 
Build, but I’m just telling you what you already know. If you were buying to bank you would have bought enough that the gain would be meaningful to you.
 
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I voted Bank.

If I was going to build them, I would’ve known what I was building when I ordered them. ;)
 
Depends on you. I picked up a couple. No immediate needs but the price was right. I'll put them in the safe in case something comes up and I want to build something. Also, a little insurance against a ban... I'm certainly not investing in them.
 
Build...the lower is still a lower when attached to all its parts.


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“I’ve got a lower sitting around” isn’t a good enough reason to build a rifle. I know, heresy right? I say sit on them until you have a need or a want to do something.
 
Plus one for @JimB and @backwoods.

Build while everything is cheap. Or at least buy enough to build later on. Like mentioned above, without lpk, upper assemblies, and furniture the lower isn’t much good. So buying a cheap lower to only have to pay triple for everything else to build doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. If banking, then also like mentioned above you need to bank enough to really make it worth investing money, time and storage of the lowers or again it’s not really a great deal.


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Build 'em. If yer concerned about foolishness in the next 15 months, wouldn't you be better positioned for such with a complete, functioning weapon, vs. a stripped lower?
 
I have a psa and doublestar lowers, need to make room in one of the safes so I can build them.
 
Crazy Carl said:
Build 'em. If yer concerned about foolishness in the next 15 months, wouldn't you be better positioned for such with a complete, functioning weapon, vs. a stripped lower?
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Greater return on a stripped lower than a complete rifle. At least that was the case 10yr ago. Lowers, LPKs, BCGs and complete Colt rifles were like gold. Uppers sold well too but not like the others.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
Greater return on a stripped lower than a complete rifle. At least that was the case 10yr ago. Lowers, LPKs, BCGs and complete Colt rifles were like gold. Uppers sold well too but not like the others.
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True enough. I just suck at buying stuff as an investment & look at it more as a prep of sorts, to ensure I have what we need/want before prices get stupid or supplies dry up completely.
 
I remember the panic after Sandy Hook when there were no parts OR Ammo to be found anywhere. Literally nothing. BUILD NOW !!!
 
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I got the same deal on the aero lowers. I bought them because they were so cheap.

They're "banked" at the moment, but at least one will be built.
 
Tim said:
I just bought 2 of the Aero Precision blem lowers ($80 total, shipped and transferred). I don't really 'need' them, but at that price it was a no-brainer.

So, now the question is do I build them, or bank them against foolishness 15 months from now?

What are y'all doing with stripped lowers these days?
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It won't let me select "Both".
Build one, buy two.
Rinse.
Repeat.
 
If things don't work out well in 2020 you will be paying an arm and a leg for any parts you would require to make a complete functioning rifle, if you could get them. Yea, the price for that complete functioning rifle would go up proportionally, but your profit margin would be less than with parts from today's market. A friends son paid over $1K for a Ruger ranch rifle in December of 2008.
 
Seeing that this thread got resurrected....

I built a ridiculously fun .22LR SBR with a 4.5" barrel and Specter II can that uses S&W 15-22 magazines. Crazy how fun and reliable that thing is. And I built out a basic 5.56 that I just finished up a few minutes ago.
 
I had an extra trigger group laying around so...

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I have what I want right now so I am banking everything to build an AR except the barrels and BCG and if I can find them are a great price they too will be banked. The problem I have is finding the small parts.
 
I can only shoot one at a time nowadays, so I am starting to think about banking solvent traps, plate carriers and tannerite instead of rifles ;)
 
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I can only shoot one at a time nowadays, so I am starting to think about banking solvent traps, plate carriers and tannerite instead of rifles ;)
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Buy 100 or so of these: sealed power 381-3179 ;)
 
I’ve got three lowers stuck away, but also have the parts to build them into complete rifles. Also have an abundance of springs, detents, and small parts on hand. I won’t be caught short again like I was in 2013.
 
They're not exclusive. Once built, they can always be stripped to be sold, reconfigured, more easily lost in a boating accident...
 
I've only bought lowers when I needed one for a specific 'build', but I always buy a spare & let it incubate a while to figure out what it wants to be. Bought a pair when I did my .300BLK SBR. About a year later, the missus shot it & decided she needed an AR, so 16" mid length 5.56 it was. Bought another pair, 'cos I'm putting together a 'nice' pinned 14.5" mid length 5.56. No idea what the extra might turn into, but a .450BM or .357AR could be fun.
 
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