You could take off two to three pounds by taking off that PRS stock and using a carbine extension and a carbine stock of your choosing.
What a shame to come back to. I thought this thread was about a Ruger product, not machine guns, pay grades that no longer matter, or what we don’t care about.
We are here to care about rifles, and in this thread a Ruger rifle specifically. Etiquette lessons and the rest are completely off topic…
I, for one, am thankful Ruger chose to breathe life back into a midsized AR. There are a myriad wonderful hunting cartridges that don’t fit into an AR-15 that I feel would be better served by a lighter frame.
Of course, I’m not recoil shy, so I like light rifles.
The less rifle I have to carry around the more everything else I can carry.
I hope they can come along with more chamberings soon. I’d like to try their hammer forged barrels. It would be great if they choose to increase their barrel making in general. The American rifle series is very well received. If anyone could make me buy a complete AR style rifle, Ruger could.
I handled one a couple weeks ago and if I didn’t already have that niche filled, I would have left the store with it that day. Ruger did a solid job in terms of how the rifle feels.I am very interested in the SFAR. I haven’t seen one except in ads and online pictures.
I like the .308 round. I do not like the WEIGHT of an AR-10. I actually carry my guns when i hunt. I like to still hunt. I have never really cared for bolt guns. Maybe because I don’t have a lot of experience with them. I love leverguns, but options for having a longer range rifle are limited.
All my rifles except 2 have been either semiauto or lever actions.
I have an AR. I have owned 5 others but the .223/5.56 does not really trip my trigger, pun intended. I can’t use that for deer anyway.
I had pretty much given up on an AR based rifle that can fire a fairly powerful long range short action cartridge that doesn’t weigh more than my M1 Garand. I have a nice compact Leupold Vari-X scope that would go nicely on an SFAR.
You could take off two to three pounds by taking off that PRS stock .
Did you also add in the rifle extension underneath, the rifle buffer, and rifle buffer spring as well? You should, which is why I gave the rough estimate instead of nitpicking.it weighs 27 ounces
Not to side track the thread, but why did you let your Rogue go?I used to have a POF Rogue, and have been following the SFAR since it was released. Finally got to handle one at Cabela's a few weeks ago, and it felt just like a trim AR-15, really not much weight difference from my Rogue after I added an AGB, different stock, buffer and muzzle brake, the handguard gives you an extra 4" as well. Probably would have picked the one up from Cabela's but I was about to head out for a few weeks on a hunt.
Just got back a few days ago, and have an SFAR on the way as of this morning. I already have the SLX 3x micro-prism that I plan to mount on it after doing a little load work, I think that will make a good walking around/staking rifle combo with my Nomad TI mounted.
Not to side track the thread, but why did you let your Rogue go?
I believe both the POF Rogue and the Sig Cross were announced at about the same time (or I heard about them at the same time). I was really more interested in the Cross, but found a Rogue for a decent price and figured I'd play with it while I was waiting for the Cross to launch. I liked it, and made some changes to make it behave better as a suppressor host, but it wasn't quite ideal. When the Cross finally launched I sold off the Rogue to fund the purchase. Still have the Cross, but I want to pick up another AR pattern .308, and think the SFAR will be better overall for my purposes than another Rogue, not to mention far cheaper once you count in the upgrades I would make to bring it up to the same standard.
While I absolutely agree they are definitely not turds.
Usefulness really depends on what you want to do with them.
If comparing an average AR10 to an average bolt gun, your carrying a pile of extra weight and a shorter barrel (for the same over all length) to get the self cycling.
Not being in a situation where ill ever need that capability, and rather disliking the ergos, they don't offer much interest in usage. Love building the things tho(ARs in general), and were i in need of a semi-auto battle rifle id own more than a few.
Shrink that AR10 down to an Ar-15 size and weight platform, and you have my interest back.....at least to a degree. Give me a 22" barrel in 6 or 6.5CM and ill drop a grand on that.....might even use it sometimes
the Portuguese used them in africa the first AR -10 and loved themI’m interested.
It’s the weight of the AR-10/LR-308 that makes them such turds.
Colin Noir just did a video about it on YouTube. He was rather giddy shooting it
why say you are sorry to him? you were not out of line at all. let him marinate in his miseryMy apologies if i gave offense.
I was simply stating my opinion that different desires and usage effect our views on equipment, and how the reduced size and weight of the SFAR bridges some of those difference.