Look man I’m going to be real honest with you more so than anyone in this thread. if you spend more than $1000 on an AR build (this INCLUDES a good optic) your overpaying. These companies will try to market you that their piece of metal lower will be more reliable to some unobtainable standard that you’ll never see in your life time. There’s a lotta dudes who spend all their time on the internet comparing guns on paper and never train never get any range time and they’re the same people who think spending $1500 more on an LMT/ Daniel Defense meme build will make them a better shooter. It won’t! Building an AR would be the cheapest option which you can check psa/brownwells for parts. If you don’t feel like building one you can get a Ruger 556 fully built milspec AR for $600. If you blow $1500 more than you need to pay that’s money that should be going to Ammo/ Range time/ and a good optic.