tactical or practical?

[guns3738]

Hey guys do yall like a more tactial rifle or a basic style rifle? Just wondering. leave a comment,thanks

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

I'm an "all of the above" if you throw in black powder also.

 

[PJSprog]

Practical for me. I have zero interest in the "tacticool" stuff. All of my rifles are bolt action except one; and it's a stock AK.

 

[strambo]

Tactical is practical for me, spent my whole life in the military and if I have to use my AR for HD, well, fighting for your life in close quarters has the same conditions and requirements at the individual level in Iraq or Iowa.

 

[ku4hx]

If anything I think the better posed comparison is tactical vs. traditional. "Practical" is situational and dependent one what you need at the time.

 

[MechAg94]

I would use the word functional instead of tactical. If the additions don't help you at what you want to use it for, there is no point to it. I like lights, red dots, and lasers, but it depends on what the intended purpose is.

Rifles like a lever action are supposed to be handy guns to shoot, but less so if you start adding stuff.

 

[MtnCreek]

One time I tried to leave the tactics up to my rifle. It just sat there.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Yes.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Yes.

Lol this.

 

[Inebriated]

Whatever helps me do what I want to do the best is what I like.

 

[coloradokevin]

Somebody already beat me to it, but tactical is synonymous with practical, at least depending on how you define the terms.

I have rifles of all kinds, and enjoy shooting all kinds of rifles. I have a few black rifles, a few bolt guns for hunting, and a few bolt guns that are also "tactical" in the eyes of most people. I like them all. For me, I most often shoot my bolt guns long range.

 

[samweller]

I do not care for all the so-called tactical stuff. LEO's need it, and the military in some instances. But, self-defense needs to keep it simple and basic. Most of the non-LEO/military guys I know who are into all that tactic-cool stuff couldn't hit a barn standing inside it. They need to spend all that money on targets and range time.

 

[wanderinwalker]

My practical rifle could be described as tactical by some. Doesn't bother me either way, it's just a rifle. If I need to use it to knock off garden vermin and pests it doesn't matter what it looks like.

(FWIW, my "practical" rifle is an M4gery with a red dot sight.)

 

[jmr40]

You can go to far with anything but a lot of tactical equipment can transfer to hunting or self defense. A long barreled bolt rifle chambered in 30-06 was a tactical rifle in 1915. Lots of hunters now benefit from stuff developed for the military. GPS, range finders, tactical scopes, even some bullets originally designed for long range precision shooting have proven to be exceptionally good hunting bullets.

 

[cat_IT_guy]

I like them all.

 

[krimmie]

tactical or practial?

I've always preferred "practical", that is wood and blued steel, but I got my first AR a couple years back, and have really enjoyed shooting it also.

 

[DeepSouth]

Depends on what I'm going to do with it, but I lean more toward a practical blue and wood bolt action than I do to the tactical stuff, but I do enjoy occasionally them as well.

 

[RJM]

I like the look of nice wood and blue steel but have no problem shooting a stainless/composite stocked rifle. I have an SKS and that's about as tactical as I go, and I really don't care about the SKS all that much...I would much rather have an own a single shot, lever action, bolt gun....I prefer single shots. When I first got into shooting I owned an AR, AK, and a M1A and thought tactical was where it's at, but have since sold all them off or traded for something more hunter-ish.

 

[taliv]

I do not care for all the so-called tactical stuff. LEO's need it, and the military in some instances. But, self-defense needs to keep it simple and basic. Most of the non-LEO/military guys I know who are into all that tactic-cool stuff couldn't hit a barn standing inside it. They need to spend all that money on targets and range time.

and yet... the LEO and mil guys get smoked by civilians because civilians spend so much more time shooting. and unless the class is "mil/LEO only" it will be 90%+ full of civilians.

and imho, the law enforcement community would be FAR better off demilitarized. they certainly don't "need" all the tactical stuff. but the military does. most of it was after all, invented specifically to meet their needs. a very high percentage of rifles used by LEO are m16 hand-me-downs donated by the mil

to the OP, people concerned about practical use should use what works best and not care what it looks like. (odds are, it will look very 'tactical') if they are hunting and want to give the animals more of a sporting chance, by downgrading their gear to only tools used in the hippie age, world or revolutionary wars, or the stick age, then that's just fine too

people concerned about collecting, and style, fit and finish, and who pretty much only plink during the daytime on a square range should be able to do whatever they want free from judgement of others over their 'tactical' or non-tactical choices

 

[M-Cameron]

ive got "tactical" guns.....ive got an AK and ive got a PGO shotgun.......i see them as 'range toys'......they are for me to go out, blast a ton of ammo, and have a good time.

ive also got some some single shot rifles which are my 'working guns'....

and then i have a whole slew of match rifles......

i really dont discriminate between gun types, i have a bit of everything, and i have realistic expectations of their use.

 

[entropy]

Functional fits for me too. I require my firearms to be multi use. I deer hunt with my AK, (when I can get it away from my son, who has hunted with it the last two years) and my Mosins, I bird hunt and shoot Trap with my 870 Tactical Mag. (Really gets the Citori crowd abuzzin', till I outshoot them.) My pistols are all carryable, and I do, except the BP ones. The only category I don't have covered is a practical .22 rifle, as my other son wanted my 10/22 in the Tapco stock for squirrel & raccoon hunting, so I traded it to him for his Rem. 552.

 

[Panzerschwein]

What is tactical??? And for that matter, what is practical??? Is tactical practical, or is practical tactical? What is tactically is practical tactically, and if so, what does that mean??

Me, I just like guns.

 

[1911 guy]

"Tactical" is application, not features. So I like my rifles practical. Set up how I like them for the use I intend.

 

[bldsmith]

Practical is very vague at best. To me practical is something I need to worry the least about. I have bolt actions and ar's that I use for both hunting and tactical applications. So I find it practical that I can use one rifle for more than a single purpose. I think first about hunting normally, (though I hunt very little but not for wanting).

 

[justin22885]

hmm.. i have no use for quad rail hanguards because quite frankly, i dont have enough stuff that really even needs to be on a rifle.. i have an AK with black polymer furniture, RS regulate top rail and a red dog, not sure if youd call it tactical, but id call it practical