Shot skeet for the first time over the weekend... god damnit that shit's fun.
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I love shooting Pigeons. Cant beat the cheap shooting. Hell I'll use my tactical semi for shits.
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Along with clays, we shot a myriad of other shit... First time ever shooting an actual hunting rifle... Kinda made me want to get into the long game a bit...
Now, when I say long... I don't really mean long. I mean, sub-500 yards... aka... far enough away for me to feel like a badass. I'd also like to do some hunting in the future, so it'd get used for that as well. I'd like something with a certain amount of versatility and as cheap as possible. Started looking at entry level bolt-actions, similar to what I was shooting that weekend, and something like a Savage Axis or similar looks pretty good to me. Then I started thinking, fuck it, maybe I'd just build an AR and use that... cause I've always kinda wanted an AR and if it'd do the trick just the same, everyone's happy. Thoughts on:
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If you really want to focus on distance and hunting, go with a bolt action and definitely go with a caliber larger than 223. I would probably go with a 30-30 for hunting, everyone just has it, hunters/stores/doesn't matter. People just don't regularly hunt with ARs unless they are fucking off with boars they don't want to eat or something. |
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For me (personal opinion) I prefer an AR base for just about every rifle need, thus my answers reflect my preference and reasoning.
I've owned bolt action .22, .223, .308, .30-06, 7mm mag (all scoped) AR-15 (multiple, and several scoped) AR-10 (scoped) AK-47 SKS .44mag, .22 and .357 lever Quote:
Bolt is going to be basically designated as sniper/hunting only rifle, as it gets to be a pain reloading a 5 round mag for "plinking" around having fun. Quote:
AR has endless parts and accessory upgrades. You can build a base AR for $600 and upgrade $100 here and there over time to have a superior rifle Quote:
The down side to an AR based rifle is that it IS only .223/5.56 and some states will not allow deer hunting with that small of a round. Quote:
Ammo is plentiful and most establishments will have it in stock (zombie apoc consideration) Most of the time I can score 1000 rounds of 5.56 for under $400. Sometimes $300 if I run up on a deal New Magpul 30 round Magazines are running about $9 if you buy 10 at a time now. Quote:
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I've got my eye on This scope if I ever DO decide to venture past 300 yards. But I can't justify the money for just optics. So I'll stick with sub 300 for quite a while until I learn more about temperature, pressure and other effects on the bullets and why they do the magic they do |
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