Posted on 12/03/2015 5:07:45 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
I never thought I'd do this, but here goes. I've been a big game hunter all of my life and am quite familiar with bolt action rifles and such. I now am in the market for an AR type rifle for both home defense and possibly deerhunting. I have never considered an AR but now that has changed. With Hillary promising confiscation and are local jihad population increasingly enamored by semiautomatic military-style firearms, I feel I must now purchase one. I have approx. $750 to spend and would like to get a reliable AR type firearm that can group less than 1-1/2" @ 100 yds. signed "bitter clinger"
Garage?
I built my AR at my computer desk.
In my lap.
Unmounted vice sitting between my legs while tightening the barrel nut with the torque wrench.
My cats were disappointed that no springs or detent pins launched across the room.
I used a utility blade to hold the spring in while pushing in the detent.
(Sadly, I don’t have a garage)
I was using a small, flat-tipped screwdriver while showing a buddy how to build his. My big old fat fingers got in the way, the blade slipped, the spring launched. Thankfully my buddy saw where it landed. It didn't go under anything heavy, and actually landed pretty close to me, but I didn't see it. My first AR I built on the kitchen table, but the second was during homeschool time, and the table was full of school work and books, so I was relegated to the garage.
Boating accidents are serious. And the references here on FR are still funny precisely because of the saturation of the the farcical use in the humorous context. Do you REALLY think FReepers are afraid of the government?
It’s a uniquely FReeper joke. So don’t be so square. We don’t all take ourselves so seriously.
Six, eight or ten times on one thread?
Once is good, not every fourth post as it is a waste of time and gets in the way of actual original posts which are really funny.
Much of the same info is regurgitated by different folks when a thread gets long. Many, including me, often post a thoughtless immediate funny reaction before getting into the thread, especially on a vanity thread.
The funniest references are creative and clever about how they work the joke into an otherwise serious response.
Of course it costs money, but one could always get a separate deer rifle, or hunt deer with one's shotgun and slugs if one is in the woods.
Nothing wrong with a plain ol' bolt gun to hunt with, it in fact has its advantages and you can get some really nice package guns, particularly the ones made by Savage, complete with scope for a fair price. And then you get two guns instead of one.
Also due to the nature of the ar15 being a split receiver, don’t limit yourself to one set-up.
Get a solid lower set-up and then multiple upper assemblies for mission specific purposes. There are some nice SBRs in 300blk and some terrific 24” bull barrels for long range shooting.
Once you plunk down $300 on a solid lower set-up the cost of each complete upper ain’t that bad.
Try doing some of the procedures in a large, transparent plastic bag.
They don't make 'em big enough to fit me. ;-p
That's actually not a bad way to do it. I'll try that the next time I build one.
I’ve found springs and detents months after the loss.
If the Ed Sullivan Show performed the same jokes every week it would have been on less than a month.
Also, the reference is never worked into a creative response; it is the same old crap. “I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
“I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
“I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
“I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
“I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
“I lost all of my guns in a tragic canoeing accident and it was Bush’s fault.”
Was it a real knee slapper every time?
You are as likely to get me to agree on this issue as you are to get me to agree abortion is a grand idea so I am not going to bother responding to your posts any further.
Your a stubborn FReeper. lol
;<)
Ruger is selling one for under $700 with their piston ARs going for about $1000+.
5.56 is generally a bit light for deer though legal in some states. You can buy the AR in other calibers; 7.62x39, 300 Blackout, 6.5 Grendel which are OK for deer or buy one in 5.56 and buy another upper in that caliber for about $500.
You can get a .308 for that price if you look around, used or on sale or put one together yourself for that price.
Thumbs up for Huldra. Good piston rifle made by Adams Arms.
bflr
You need a .223 for sport because you can actually find ammo for it.
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