Best Complete Rifle: BCI Defense & Core 15

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I have never heard of BCI Defense before, but looking over their spec sheet, they don't fall within the category of an upper tier rifle builder since they are using forged receivers and ALG basic trigger.

OP's question pertains to BCI Defense and Core15. I only have limited experience with Core 15 and like what I saw. Their Grendel logo is pretty sick, but as I mentioned, I have unfortunately not fired any of their rifles.

I will say that I have purposely not bought complete AR15 rifles since 1997, and have only built my own since then because of a lack of trust and desire to do things how I wanted. These upper tier rifles offer things that I simply can't duplicate, even using over 30 years of personal continued experience with working on AR15s.

My Stealth 2.0 made me want most of what it has in my Lilja 17.6" build in terms of smoothness, fit, feel, and precision machining. I spent more on parts on my Lilja 318 build than the Stealth 2.0 costs, and I still need to tune my recoil system now because it started cycling faster on me for some reason the last few times I took it out.