Well, actually, a .308 Fulton Armory lower receiver with which to build a quasi-AR-10. I learned a while back that there are 2 kinds of .308 ARs on the market: (1) Armalite AR-10 and compatible builds and (2) DPMS compatible builds. The Armalite variants come from the original AR-10 design; the DPMS ones are AR-15s back engineered to be .308. Upper receivers do not interchange between the two. Fulton Armory rifles are of the second type. It will probably take me a year to put the whole thing together, but I'm planning on something close to DPMS's SASS (semi-auto sniper system).
Ixnay on the icturespay. He lives in the PRK and in January we may get a Democrat legislature and Black Jesus as President. They'll have him in a "reeducation camp" faster than you can bat an eye. (OK. It is possible that that tequila on an empty stomach got RIGHT on top of me. )
Sweet. Did you buy a complete receiver or just the body that you will have to build? Can you get into detail about the differences between the Armalie and the DPMS versions?
It's just the lower receiver housing--the part with the serial number on it. Pics in 10 days...when I pick it up.
To the eye, they don't really look different. But the profile cut into the top of them--the surface that mates with the upper receiver--is different. I think it's possible to make one fit on the other, but not without either (1) cutting some metal or (2) tolerating some ugly mismatches between surfaces. Here's an Armalite lower: Here's a DPMS lower (the Fulton I bought is identical): Note the profile at the rear of the Armalite: it's got a straight, 45 degree corner on it, just as the original AR-10 from back in the '50's had. DPMS-types have a curved surface at the rear of the upper, much like an M-16/AR-15 does. People have managed to install DPMS-type uppers on Armalite-type lowers, but it requires some mods to the metal and there's an ugly gap between the parts when it's done. Edit: here's an example of combining the two types. To me, this is unacceptable, but to each his own:
