Every good gun needs a name. Maybe I’ve been playing with my kids too much, but when I finished the changes to my PCR-99 AR-15 the phrase – “Simon Says Stop!” sprung to mind. Simon started out as a kit from M&A Parts back in 1999/2000 (I ordered it in December 1999 but because of the Y2K scare it wasn’t available until January). Originally it had an A2 upper on it. After visiting the Olympic Arms Phoenix Rising event and returning with a post-ban flattop upper it got more serious.

I added a Leupold scope, but after a bit of shooting with it decided that a scope on a 16″ was really overkill so I sold it for a Bushnell Holosight. That worked out really well, the Holosight works better than expected, I can smack the 200 yard 3′ gong at the range consistently with it.

Earlier this year I augmented it with a GG&G MAD BUIS (BackUpIronSight) just in case the Holosight batteries died at the wrong moment. Some more time passed and I decided it was time to get rid of the ugly post-ban compensator, its allen screws were continually coming loose and falling out anyway. So I yanked it off (using a slide hammer) and sent the upper off to AR15barrels for threading and a Phantom flash hider.

While waiting for USPS to deliver it back to me (their non-tracking system reveals why UPS and FedEx are so popular) I attended the Washington Arms Collectors show in Puyallup and picked up an ACE skeleton stock, A2 sized, for it. USPS showed up while I was at the show and I have everything re-assembled and ready to re-zero it this weekend. I’ll report back after putting a couple of hundred rounds of Lake City XM193 down range.