wanderinwalker
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Simply a choose and advise thread.
I'm looking to buying (or maybe building) another rifle or some kind of shooting setup after New Year's. Right now I'm looking at several different options, depending almost purely on whim and secondly on financial indicators (college student here).
So far I'm looking heavily at:
1) M-1 Garand. I am qualified to order one through the CMP, and am tempted to grab one and a case or two of ammo while the prices are still good and they're still available. I would use this for JC Garand matches and general shooting of a big, powerful old warhorse. (I'm a Highpower shooter who uses an AR-15 for "serious" matches.) Current price: $425 for a Field Grade + S&H
2) Mini-14 or 30. This would kind of be like a semi-auto equivalent of my Marlin .44. Fun to plink with, useful for generally putting holes in things, but otherwise serving no particular purpose other than to make $$ into noise. I'm leery of these due to accuracy reputation; it would be miserable to have a rifle I can outshoot. Current price around here: $579, OTD, + magazines and ammo.
3) AR-15 variant of some sort. Here I could get away "cheap" by building/buying just an upper to start with, which I can use on my match lower until I acquire a second lower. Generally would fit the same profile as the Mini, but I've already at least got magazines and the know-how to keep it working and have an expectation of at least reasonable accuracy. Price: Variable, depending on configuration, but generally $450-650 (from what I've seen).
4) .22LR Upper for my current match rifle. This would be for inexpensive short-range practice, when I don't want to reload. Very limited utility, but I like the idea of being able to shoot my Service Rifle in ANY indoor range or any 50-foot range I can find. Of course, this is a specialized tool, and not cheap. Price: $900-1000 for one that will shoot as good as it should. (At this point though, I'd almost have to suck it up and step up to an Anschutz or Walther smallbore rifle, for not much more money, and much simpler slow-fire shooting.)
It's too tough to decide! Eventually I will have one of each, but now the question is which one to get?!
Thanks all.
I'm looking to buying (or maybe building) another rifle or some kind of shooting setup after New Year's. Right now I'm looking at several different options, depending almost purely on whim and secondly on financial indicators (college student here).
So far I'm looking heavily at:
1) M-1 Garand. I am qualified to order one through the CMP, and am tempted to grab one and a case or two of ammo while the prices are still good and they're still available. I would use this for JC Garand matches and general shooting of a big, powerful old warhorse. (I'm a Highpower shooter who uses an AR-15 for "serious" matches.) Current price: $425 for a Field Grade + S&H
2) Mini-14 or 30. This would kind of be like a semi-auto equivalent of my Marlin .44. Fun to plink with, useful for generally putting holes in things, but otherwise serving no particular purpose other than to make $$ into noise. I'm leery of these due to accuracy reputation; it would be miserable to have a rifle I can outshoot. Current price around here: $579, OTD, + magazines and ammo.
3) AR-15 variant of some sort. Here I could get away "cheap" by building/buying just an upper to start with, which I can use on my match lower until I acquire a second lower. Generally would fit the same profile as the Mini, but I've already at least got magazines and the know-how to keep it working and have an expectation of at least reasonable accuracy. Price: Variable, depending on configuration, but generally $450-650 (from what I've seen).
4) .22LR Upper for my current match rifle. This would be for inexpensive short-range practice, when I don't want to reload. Very limited utility, but I like the idea of being able to shoot my Service Rifle in ANY indoor range or any 50-foot range I can find. Of course, this is a specialized tool, and not cheap. Price: $900-1000 for one that will shoot as good as it should. (At this point though, I'd almost have to suck it up and step up to an Anschutz or Walther smallbore rifle, for not much more money, and much simpler slow-fire shooting.)
It's too tough to decide! Eventually I will have one of each, but now the question is which one to get?!
Thanks all.
That rifle will clean every target on the course, with room to spare. If only the trigger-jockey could do that reliably. 
The M-1 is for games and general shooting/collecting. 
