Best AR under $1000...go!

Buy the parts and assemble yourself........

I'm well under $1000 and should have a decent rifle.

I'd recommend buying a factor smith and Wesson or a colt or something. Building is ok but you end up spending a lot of $ convincing yourself that every part you need better of then you end up w a rifle that u know all the blemishes

I have a S&W MP15 optics ready, put whatever optics you choose, sling, quad rail and add a B.A.D. lever then yr ready to go.

I disagree Clames. The AR is a very simple and very forgiving rifle. There are dozens of forums and hundreds of YouTube videos that can aid in their instruction. I spent a lot of time in the military shooting the AR platform under every imaginable condition and not once did I ever do anything more than field strip it for cleaning. I never removed any of the parts from the lower receiver aside from the buffer and buffer spring and certainly never took the barrel or gas system off so I was certainly no expert on the system, and I'm still not. There are people on this forum and other and guys on YouTube who know infinitely more about the rifle than I do. I've come here for advice and reccomendations and I've learned a lot. I built my first AR from scratch by coming here and looking at videos on the Internet.

Now if your saying that he shouldn't build until he shoots one quite a bit and figures out what he likes and doesn't like then I can see your point, but as far as being able to put a functioning weapon together I think even a novice is capable. Of course I recommend he do his due diligence and read and watch as much as he can before beginning.

I'll sail you my AR for $2,000. Save up a little longer and cum talk to me

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I spent a lot of time in the military shooting the AR platform under every imaginable condition and not once did I ever do anything more than field strip it for cleaning.

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That makes you not a noob to the AR.

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but as far as being able to put a functioning weapon together I think even a novice is capable.

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A novice with good mechanical skills and a thorough understanding of what they are doing would be capable. Someone with no experience with ARs and little mechanical skills would be a liability, no matter how many videos they watch and forums they hump.

The one I'm building right now

Build.

Splurge on four components
Barrel
Trigger
BCG
Optics

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The AR is a very simple and very forgiving rifle. There are dozens of forums and hundreds of YouTube videos that can aid in their instruction.

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If i can complete a lower with only 2 dings (bolt catch roll pin bastard), literally anyone with 2 hands and passable vision can do it.

I am going to expand to an upper next year - maybe. I need a better vise setup - that's for sure.

It's pretty easy, the hardest part would be taking time to figure out which quality parts you would want to use on it. There's a bunch of manufactures who are building ar's now, and a whole lot more who build parts. The only part that has to go through an FFL is the lower.

You can learn to build an ar in about 30 minutes on youtube

And yes, there is an advantage to building your own. You're paying for the name on a lot of things.

Like said above. Go with a quality barrel and trigger group. I really wouldn't spend more than 150 on a BCG. But that's only because iv been told they're all about the same, so that may be wrong.