SHWilliams
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I know this is an oft-asked question, but I'll try to provide more specifics to what I'm looking for than I've read elsewhere.
What I'm looking for is a rifle (or combination thereof within 25% of the same price) to accomplish the following:
I'm operating under the assumption that I can afford ~$2k a year for guns, but also that I might not have time enough to finish my wish list before I need them, so should prioritize.
I might be moving to California, so I'd like the ability to make it California compliant, but this isn't a hard requirement since I might be staying in Texas.
I have handguns for personal/home defense, so don't need something to fit that bill, and I have an SKS as the current rifle which I'd need to use as a battle/hunting rifle. I don't think that's a stellar choice, but if anyone feels differently I'm all ears.
I've leaning strongly toward a .308, but am open to suggestion. If money were no object, and I hit the gun show tomorrow, I'd buy the following rifles for the following reasons:
I'm tempted to forgo the Remington 700P and the FAL and instead get a Springfield M1A Scout to serve the purposes of battle/deer hunting/7.62 NATO & .308 pick ups. I recognize that I'll be making concessions on both accuracy and magazine capacity (and having only one rifle instead of two), but would those concessions be all that much? Would they not be worth the $700 or so I'd save, or could it be considered a wash?
Thanks for your help and experience.
What I'm looking for is a rifle (or combination thereof within 25% of the same price) to accomplish the following:
- Good for hunting deer and other medium-large game. I'm not a hunter, but would like the option, so want good accuracy and ability to comply with local hunting laws (Texas at present)
- Ability to stake my life on it as a battle rifle in any condition.
- Reliability, reliability, reliability. I don't want to have to bank on being able to clean it regularly and adequately if I have to hump it for untold miles
- Ready availability of ammo, both for purchase, and "pick ups"
- Availability of accessories and parts
- Stopping power
- Money is an object, but I'm not on a shoestring budget. For rifle + scope + 1k rounds I could live with around $2k
- Would rather not modularize or combine rifles (unless it will save a crap ton of money) so that I can place the extra rifle in another pair of hands if needed
I'm operating under the assumption that I can afford ~$2k a year for guns, but also that I might not have time enough to finish my wish list before I need them, so should prioritize.
I might be moving to California, so I'd like the ability to make it California compliant, but this isn't a hard requirement since I might be staying in Texas.
I have handguns for personal/home defense, so don't need something to fit that bill, and I have an SKS as the current rifle which I'd need to use as a battle/hunting rifle. I don't think that's a stellar choice, but if anyone feels differently I'm all ears.
I've leaning strongly toward a .308, but am open to suggestion. If money were no object, and I hit the gun show tomorrow, I'd buy the following rifles for the following reasons:
- CMMG AR-15: for 5.56/.223 pick ups, for battle and small game hunting, and because CMMG isn't on California's hit list, so could trick it out to make it compliant
- Remington 700P bolt-action: for hunting, sniping, and 7.62 NATO/.308 pick ups
- DSArms STG58 FAL: for pure kill-lots-of-bad-guys-and-make-sure-they-stay-down battle power as well as .308/7.62 NATO pick ups
- AK-47: to have something better than my SKS for 7.62x.39 pick ups (and as a good alternate battle rifle to the AR or the FAL)
- Remington 870 20ga shotgun: for bird hunting and bad-guy head vaporizing
I'm tempted to forgo the Remington 700P and the FAL and instead get a Springfield M1A Scout to serve the purposes of battle/deer hunting/7.62 NATO & .308 pick ups. I recognize that I'll be making concessions on both accuracy and magazine capacity (and having only one rifle instead of two), but would those concessions be all that much? Would they not be worth the $700 or so I'd save, or could it be considered a wash?
Thanks for your help and experience.