Phaedrus/69
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As a young kid I was basically a rifleman. I grew up out in the country and started in one long guns about the time I could walk. Dad had an FFL and we always had 60-80 personally owned firearms. Had my first BB gun at 4 or 5 and my first .22 shortly thereafter. I didn't actually shoot pistols much at all since dad wasn't much into them. I got a Ruger single action .22/.22 Mag revolver for 8th grade graduation and while I had fun with it I still roamed around with my 10/22 every day. Didn't shoot much with pistols til my early teens.
Once I moved to "the Big City" though I switched to nothing but handguns. Nowhere to hunt and not many places to shoot a rifle. For the last 25 years I've owned almost nothing but handguns and pistol caliber carbines.
Still, I've wanted an AR since I was a young boy! I remember reading Shotgun News and The Shooter's Bible back in the late 70's and early 80's. I had two obsessions then: The M16 and the HK91/93!
Well, it took me 45 years to getting around to it but I finally put an AR on layaway. Nothing really fancy, just a CORE15. From a lot of reading over the last two years it seems like they're pretty decent guns. Bud's has a pretty good price on one with no sights and a 15" Keymod rail. Pretty much the basic gun I want. I like rails but all I want to stick on it is a light, a VFG and a RDS.
In the last 20 years I've owned exactly one rifle- a Browning A-Bolt Synthetic Stalker in .308 Winchester. As much as I loved the gun I don't hunt anymore and didn't have a lot of use for it. So I traded it in on a .45 ACP sidearm a few years back. So this AR will actually be my first rifle in a while!
Hopefully it's gonna be a good shooter. I'm pretty eager to get back into rifle shooting again after two or three decades of mostly being a pistolero!
Once I moved to "the Big City" though I switched to nothing but handguns. Nowhere to hunt and not many places to shoot a rifle. For the last 25 years I've owned almost nothing but handguns and pistol caliber carbines.
Still, I've wanted an AR since I was a young boy! I remember reading Shotgun News and The Shooter's Bible back in the late 70's and early 80's. I had two obsessions then: The M16 and the HK91/93!
Well, it took me 45 years to getting around to it but I finally put an AR on layaway. Nothing really fancy, just a CORE15. From a lot of reading over the last two years it seems like they're pretty decent guns. Bud's has a pretty good price on one with no sights and a 15" Keymod rail. Pretty much the basic gun I want. I like rails but all I want to stick on it is a light, a VFG and a RDS.
In the last 20 years I've owned exactly one rifle- a Browning A-Bolt Synthetic Stalker in .308 Winchester. As much as I loved the gun I don't hunt anymore and didn't have a lot of use for it. So I traded it in on a .45 ACP sidearm a few years back. So this AR will actually be my first rifle in a while!
Hopefully it's gonna be a good shooter. I'm pretty eager to get back into rifle shooting again after two or three decades of mostly being a pistolero!