setting up 300 blk AR for home defense

Hello all,

I have recently been enjoying the wonderful .300 blk cartridge, including having my 9 year old son take his first deer with it in December. I've decided that after 10+ years of having a glock as my primary home defense plan, I'm going to set up an AR in .300 blk for home defense. Part of my rationale for this is that I have a 30 caliber can and I don't want to inflict permanent hearing damage on myself or my family.

I currently have an upper from BCA, and call be snoody, but I don't feel great about trusting my life to a $200 upper. This may be illogical, as it has never had a malfunction.

My question is, if you were setting up a .300 blk AR for home defense and you were going to buy a complete upper from a reputable company, which company would it be? PSA? Aero?

Thanks!

If you just want a upper from a nicer company I'd look at Daniel Defense, if that's too expensive for you then maybe take a step down to BCM

I have a psa that i use for that very purpose

I have put together some of my own .300’s and I was running a 7.5” .300 aero on a brace, with a hybrid 46 (this way I don’t even have to wake the kids). it has redundant target Systems (shake awake red dot, with flip up magnifier) and back up sights that flip up quickly in case the red dot fails (which it has not in 2 years, as I regularly replace the batteries and shoot the gun). Since this whole brace thing happened, I now have a 16” .300 A2 upper ( same targeting systems except it has permanent front post sight that doesn’t get in the way of the red dot / magnifier). All I can say is, make sure that your shoot it, a lot. Get comfortable with it, like it is second nature. Second, have fun with it. Third, teach your family to shoot it, in case you get incapacitated. Just my .2 cents sir…