You'll have to excuse the cat. He wanted so bad to feel included.
I'll start by saying this is strictly a range toy. I understand some of the ways it comes up short performance wise and really don't care because it's simply fun. Everything about this was intended to be "tacticool" and nothing else. So lets get to it!
It's a 45acp AR built on the CMMG mkg lower with the side charging upper. It's designed to retain the LRBHO functions which is pretty uncommon in a pistol caliber AR. Also uses their radial delayed blowback system so operationally works almost identically to a standard .556 AR.
It works with Glock 21 magazines which means 50 round drum mags are in the immediate future because why the f not.
This thing is HEAVY. Weighs in about twice the weight of my 5.56 DPMS before you put the 26 round magazine in it.
It has a cheap $40 red dot from amazon (reviews had it holding zero on 5.56 AR's so we'll see if it survives the 45) as well as a Sightmark side flip magnifier.
Stock is the Hera Arms CQR Gen 1.
I originally built it with a 6" barrel but wanted to slap the stock on it so I upgraded to the 16" barrel to avoid prison time (don't feel like going through the SBR process.) With the shorter barrel it wasn't too bad on recoil. Haven't had a chance to take her out with the longer barrel so I'm not sure how it'll feel shooting it but I imagine recoil will be pretty soft considering the sheer weight of this monstrosity. Let me know what y'all think!
The "down sides":
-Since standard .45acp typically burns all of it's powder in the first 4-5 inches of the barrel, there is a chance I'll actually lose muzzle velocity with the 16" barrel unless I use +P rounds. The delayed blowback might actually help negate some of that though.
-It's fuckin heavy.
