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Good info guys.Keep it coming. I am out trying to make some money to pay for this quest.
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It's certainly not a bad way of going about it, but like you're finding it will get expensive.
Depending on how you want to go about testing them, and what your intended end-use is, there are some ways of making the hit a little less.
For accuracy testing, get yourself an inexpensive but quality variable optic and mount it in a throwlever mount. I went with a European Leupold 3-9x with 30mm tube and I mounted it in a Larue mount. Pop the lever, move it from one rifle to another, re-zero, and you're good to go. Saves you having to buy $700 worth of optics for each gun just to see how it groups.
Depending on you use, you could even do the same thing with a red dot sight like an Aimpoint. You're only going to be able to shoot one gun at a time, so there's really no point (for testing purposes) in putting an optic on every single gun at once.
Also, start buying ammo now. And keep buying it. Buy 10s of thousands of rounds. You're going to need it in order for any of your conclusions to be worthwhile.
I did something not unlike what you're doing, but with gear not guns. I knew all along that I'd wind up with Colts, so about 5 years ago I built one gun that had an LMT upper and a Bushmaster lower, and another gun out of a stripped RRA lower and a J&T upper. I then put a DD rail on one, an LT on the other, a Vltor stock on one, a Magpul on the other, an Aimpoint on one, an Eotech on the other, etc. like that with no two identical parts on either gun. Then I shot the piss out of them, figured out which parts from each I liked, bought a Colt and built it up with the best parts from each gun. It was a great learning process, and I continue today to buy new parts as they come out and test them out on the 4 Colts that I now have.
If I was trying to do what you're doing, I'd take the top makes/models from the chart as my list of testers. Of course, in base guns alone this would get real expensive real quick.
Colt 6920 $1300
Noveske N4 $1400
LMT Defender 16" M4 $1200
Sabre Defence 90244 $1150
Smith and Wesson M&P15 $1000
Charles Daly D-M4LE $1000
That's $7k in base rifles alone with no ammo, magazines, optics, or ammo. Did I say ammo?
I would say that you're going to need to put between 2-4k rounds through each to have any kind of real idea how they hold up. At 6 guns that 12-24k rounds of ammo. That's $3500-$7k in ammo if you just use Wolf.
Figure on $2k in optics, mags, slings, etc.
So now you're up to a $15k project. If you've got it, I think it will be an AWESOME project and will give you all kinds of great info when you're done. I look forward to reading about your progress.
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