I bought something pretty cool

[cuttingedge]

Ok, I can't post pics as I don't have the rifle with me, but you can look it up on Olympic arms website.

They have come out with a 308-15 AR style rifle. It is a proprietary lower that comes with a 308 Win upper. Here's the twist! The upper can be removed and pins can be relocated to accept any standard AR caliber. The 308 upper on mine is equipped with a free floating hand guard with sling swivel stud, and an 18" heavy stainless barrel threaded for a flash hider or suppressor. It comes with a nice stainless thread protector installed.

The proprietary 308 upper takes a special single stack magazine. Once the upper is removed and say a 5.56 upper installed, the magazine well is machined to accept standard AR magazines.

Other calibers are in the works such as 260 Remington.

I can't wait to get out to give this rifle a good run. I paid $999 for it at a gun shop.

[westtexducks]

You have another upper you can throw on it to check if it actually works?

[wade _s]

Sounds pretty neat to me. Post some Pics when you can.

[cuttingedge]

Might be this weekend for the pics. It'll work. It's really an awesome concept. Take one lower and a couple of uppers and cover your entire hunt.

[sir shovelhands]

Except there's no aftermarket support for that upper and you're slaved to oly arms. If you want a smaller 308, then DPMS G2 is probably the way to go (aftermarket support is building up).

Not to knock your purchase, I hope you enjoy it immensely.

[cuttingedge]

Well, I didn't buy it for aftermarket support of the 308 win upper, it's good as is for my purposes as is. I bought it because it is a 308 and will accept mil spec AR 15 uppers, and 6.8 SPC, 6.5 Grendel, 450 Bushmaster, etc.

I do fully expect Oly will produce other bigger uppers for the platform. Really excited about the 260 Remington.