LaRue UU still worth it?

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Spool.

One more thing...If you are prepared to build your AR then you can have a better shooting rifle for the same price as a manufacturer's fancy off-the-shelf. Especially when the manufacturer loads as much of their brand as they can into the price.

Hard to build a "better shooting rifle" for the $804 shipped price of the LaRue kit.

Just doing some back of napkin pricing, $300+ barrel to fit Klem's accuracy and material criteria. $50-$100 gas block and tube. $200 handguard. $150-$250 billet upper receiver. $150 BCG. $150 buttstock, buffer, tube and spring. $$100-250 trigger. $50 lower parts kit. $100 muzzle device. That collection of parts is about double what you can get the LaRue for, and that's not assembled, so if you're just starting out, add more money for torque wrench, vise block or reaction rod, punches, armorer's wrenches, etc. You can get the LaRue upper assembled and test-fired for free.

And what do you get for all that extra money? A barrel that may or may not shoot better, and for a lot of folks, that difference in accuracy can never be realized, and usually isn't even necessary for what they're doing. Not everybody shoots competition, not everybody posts groups on Instagram and forums for likes, and not everybody even shoots at longer ranges. In the case of the OP, anything more than mid-distance shots will be uncommon (I'm a Central Florida hunter, a game shot over 200 or so is rare here) so paying for the possibility of even better accuracy is sort of a waste when anything better than 2MOA does the job.

Now, I suppose if you sunk all your money in the barrel and trigger, generic parts on the rest of the build, and you already had all the tools needed for assembly, you could squeak in under the cost of the LaRue, but would you really have a better rifle at that point?