I've always been interested in owning an AR-10, but have mostly been shooting M14s and Garands because of the combination of reliability and accuracy of the basic John C. Garand design, which I find to be very appealing.
My frame of reference on the AR-10 admittedly goes back about five years and seeing these rifles at the local range. They were jamming a lot, ejecting magazines under recoil, short stroking, and suffering other assorted maladies.
Right now I'm cash poor, but am considering buying a stripped Eagle Arms AR-10 receiver to put away for a future build in case the laws don't go in our favor.
Can these rifles be made to work reliably like an M14, or is their sole claim to fame accuracy? I'm not interested in a scoped AR-10 version with a bipod that eats a single 20 round mag during a range session and therefore is proclaimed "reliable". Instead I'm talking about a rifle that can gobble 200 rounds a day weekend after weekend, being cleaned every 2nd or 3rd range session and still produce great accuracy and reliability like my M14s do.
My frame of reference on the AR-10 admittedly goes back about five years and seeing these rifles at the local range. They were jamming a lot, ejecting magazines under recoil, short stroking, and suffering other assorted maladies.
Right now I'm cash poor, but am considering buying a stripped Eagle Arms AR-10 receiver to put away for a future build in case the laws don't go in our favor.
Can these rifles be made to work reliably like an M14, or is their sole claim to fame accuracy? I'm not interested in a scoped AR-10 version with a bipod that eats a single 20 round mag during a range session and therefore is proclaimed "reliable". Instead I'm talking about a rifle that can gobble 200 rounds a day weekend after weekend, being cleaned every 2nd or 3rd range session and still produce great accuracy and reliability like my M14s do.