[JimM44]

Watch out for the dreaded BRD(Black Rifle Disease) it's very bad and will melt all your plastic cards and leave you deep in debt.

Most guys I know have both AKs and ARs and we have all built both, the AR builds are much easier and require a lot less tooling but still fun anyway.

I only have one AR that I didn't do any building on and it's an Olympic prototype.

My first AR was a Stag stripped lower with an M&A parts kit that I put together about an hour or so and it shots great.

After that I had to build them from scratch, you know barrel in the white, gas tube, upper and so forth.

Now I am working on an 80% lower from Tactical machining and I may move on the 0% Forging after that.

Once you have built the AKs the AR becomes very easy to work with.

Welcome to the Dark side and watch out for those AR owners that don't own and AK and look down on them.