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Thread: Your AR: to shoot, to hunt or just to have and hold?

  1. #71
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    I'm with the "because I can" and "all legal purposes" crowd.

    However...

    Personally, I traded my 700 for a pile of AR and have built it up to do everything I could possibly need to do with it (SD, HD, simple Range Time, maybe hunting). I would not give it up for anything at this point.

    It lives next to my bed. Personally, I feel way more comfortable with it than a bolt gun, as I used to have, if I needed to protect life and property. Not just in any self defense scenario (eg: home invasion), but also in "beyond all contingencies" scenarios and life as normal takes a break for an indeterminate amount of time (eg: post-Katrina type disaster, I live on the coast). God knows there are some questionable individuals out there who would take the opportunity.

    All that, and I rather enjoy shooting and becoming as proficient as I can with it. It is terribly fun.
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    D: all of the above.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suwannee Tim View Post
    Everything I have is basic. S&W, LMT, Stag, basic quality guns. I don't feel a bit embarrassed when folks show up with their Noveske's, etc, etc. The only nice guns I have are two Dakota rifles, even those guns are basic calibers, a 25-06 and a 30-06. Other than those two, everything else is plain and basic.
    I don't mean basic as in custom built vs factory or Stag vs Noveske, I mean basic configuration. Because we have so many options available to us and it's the job of the ad-men to sell as many rifles as possible to Joe Public, it's ingrained in our being that we need a rifle, shogun and pistol specially configured for each application. We'd need to hire a caddy to carry them in a bag like golf clubs.

    "Here sir. Let me suggest the SPR for this shot. The coyote is a mere 225 yards and the 2.5x10 Nightforce and short barrel make this the rifle of choice."

    "You don't think I should use the DMR?"

    "Oh no, sir. With it's longer barrel and higher magnification, the DMR would be suitable when the coyote passes beyond 300. Oh, there he goes! DMR it is, sir."

    A shooter with a 16" (or even 20" AR) with a standard profile barrel and basic furniture need only iron sights, RDS, weapon light, sling and a 3x9 optic to perform 90% of the tasks one could ask of it. No need for special profile barrels, PRS type stocks or miles of rail estate.

    I do have two configurations of AR, one a standard carbine, the other a dedicated precision rifle, but if I installed a free float tube and a good scope on the carbine, it would do almost as well the precision AR for varmint duty
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    Yes...
    don't even try to take my weapons away from me and my peoples...

    this is why i joined this forum...http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...d.php?t=503481
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    When I bought my first AR about ten years ago, it was because it I wnated to add something else to the collection I didn't have yet. I got turned on to a local 2gun match back in 2006 and from then on, I've developed a different mind set when it came to firearm training.

    Prior to that, I was just happy being a gun owner with a CWL. Never knew how dynamic and stressful a SD situation could be. I've still never been in that type situation but, I now prepare myself the best I can if the need should ever arise.

    I compete twice a month in a 2gun competition that is set up to mimic defensive scenarios with a carbine being your primary weapon and handgun secondary. It's good training for those that have taken carbine classes and helps me train in a way outside of your typical static range drills.

    I had to pass on a Redback One class and another EAG class this year cause of the ammo situation and while I feel comfortable with what I currently have on hand ammo wise, not knowing if I can replace what I have for the price I paid, has me a little reluctant to shoot as much as I used to the past few years. I would guess I used to average between 1000-1500 rounds minimum a month but, I'm just limiting myself to the local matches and dry firing 100 times a day with both my AR and handguns..

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    Your AR: to shoot, to hunt or just to have and hold?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stubby View Post
    Me too
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    To shoot. I'm not a rifle guy per se and thought now would be a good time for me to get used to a long gun.
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    Shoot, hunt, and use for target practice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Failure2Stop View Post
    For all legal purposes
    Ditto
    "The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." T.J. 'Stonewall' Jackson

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