Stag Arms 6L Super Varminter

[Redneck Bowhunter]

Iam a lefty and just found out about there left handed ar's. I really like this rifle, and would obviously use it for varmint hunting. How do they hold up, are they accurate? It says they are 1/2 MOA. It is kinda expensive for me. Is it worth the money? There isn't any way I could test one or even hold one beforeI buy. I would have to order it and give a down payment. Does anyone own one, they are kinda new?

[kelbro]

DPMS also makes one in lefty. I have one and have been shooting it for the past couple of months. Very accurate and a lot of fun. They are a little bit lower priced than the stags too. If you want to save some money, buy the upper and build your own lower. Takes less than an hour and you can save probably $100-150 doing it yourself.

[Redneck Bowhunter]

How do you build a lower? In fact what is a lower? Sorry but im new to AR-15's and don't know much about them.

[Badger Boy]

a lower reciever (lower piece) look like this:

it has the magazine well, and the places for the trigger, hammer, sear springs, stock, mag release and all those fun little things about 40 parts in all... i dunno ive built two of them... one STAG one CMMG. all parts are the same but a piece of advice if you built your own lower get the lower parts kit from the same manufacter as the reciever. You can usually buy a reciever for about 125-160 and a parts kit for about 50-65 dollars. Those will build you lower reciever without a stock. the stock, tube, buffer and spring will cost you about another 45-80 dollars depending on kind of stock. a complete lower will look like this.


or you can just buy a complete lower from an FFL for about 270-280

if your building a lower for the first time please realize you need to be patient and it helps to print out a parts assembly diagram from online. Bushmaster has a pretty detailed one on there website;
http://bushmaster.com/anatomy_bushmaster.asp

but look around...
if you have any other questions just ask :-)

[huntingirl89]

The lower with the solid stock Badger Boy pictured is the one he built for me

And yes, like he said, patience.

[Badger Boy]

a comment about performance....

ARs in .223 arevery accurate up to 800 yds (in calm skilled hands) but by that range you probly should be shooting anything larger than a P-dog. The Varminter series of AR's are usually 20-24 which increase velocity a bit and will help you get long range accuracy. They also offer a free-float barrel with will also help maintain the accuracy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7B9NkQldeu0

Stag is a good company so I expect theirs to be just as good as the Varminters Ive seen. Companies(brands) dont really matter. About the only thing that seperates them is the barrel. With a Varmint rifle you will have to choose between Chrome Molle, Chrome Lined, and Stainless Steel.Most Varmint rifles have heavy SS barrels for increased accuracyand stability. If you dont want to pay that much you can build you ar and try to save some money.

on average the prices wll be as follows (might find lowerif you shop around)
you can get your left handed stag upper and add a 24" SS barrel, and a free float tube.
24" SS barrel should be about 250-300
A3 upper left handed (assembled) is about 190
Left handed Boltassembly(unassembled) 150
Free Float Tube60
Gas Block30
Gas Tube15

talking about 750+ shipping for the upper +
about 270 for the lower

suprisingly the stag price is dead on...
if you build it yourself you get to pay it over time and make it yourself and that wil make it more personal (thats why i build mine) BUT if this is the first time your building anthing like this and if you dont feel your crafty enough to build it using sometimes crappy diagrams then it will prolly be best to just order it from them. It might take a few weeks, big companies sometimes have up to a 12 week wait. But if you order it through them that all parts will fit together best and they garantee MOA where as if you build it yourself from different parts, there is no such garantee.

[Redneck Bowhunter]

Wow, thanks for the info.

[barry1me]

Im a lefty and so far I havent had a problem shooting my right handed Bushmaster M4.