DMR style AR or .308 bolt gun?

[Roadwild17]

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

I have the funds together to get a rifle. I currently have an AR with mags and ammo and an AK with mags and ammo. .

The first option is to make / get a 20"-24" AR and feed it 62 and 75 gr ammo. It would be a DMR type rifle capable of rapid fire. Also, I have 5.56 QD supressor. It would ware something like a 3X9 or 4X12 quality glass in the 4-600 price range.

The other option is a savage FP10 in .308. I don't ave any .308 and I don't reload. I would probably get a McMillan stock or the HS precision stocked rifle. It would be topped with something like a 4X16 power scope running 5-800.


Basically its quick accurate suppressed .223 or precise loud .308.

 

[strambo]

How about an accurate 18" or 20" upper...and the Savage?

 

[benzy2]

What are you using it for? They are fairly different rifles with different purposes. It is enough difference that you really need an objective for them and from that pick the rifle.

 

[Davionmaximus]

I have an AR that is chambered for .308. From experience get yourself a good bolt gun and spend the rest of the coin on a premium scope.

 

[Zak Smith]

For precision or long-range, I prefer a bolt gun. I find them easier to shoot, less finicky for accuracy, easier to spot my own hits/misses with (compared to .308 ARs anyway). They'll also have better ballistics than a .223 even using heavy bullets.

But if it's for plinking at stuff at short-medium ranges, the AR-15 will probably be more fun and cheaper to feed.

 

[mljdeckard]

I bought an M-1A with intentions of a precision rifle, but besides realizing that I needed (at least) a raised-comb stock to be able to shoot it that way, and that I wasn't shooting it any faster than I would shoot a bolt rifle anyway, I got rid of it and got another Rem 700. MAYBE I'll talk myself into a AR-10 one day, but it will be a want, not a need.