I'm having trouble with a want for a rifle. I have no immediate use for one. I hunt, but I only hunt with my compound bow (Martin Fury). I have a few handguns for fun and defense (Buck Mark 5.5 target with a Red Dot, 2x 1911's, PT-111 and even a Rohm RG-38!). But I have no SERIOUS rifle.
I already own a .22 lr bolt action rifle (Marlin something or other) and I'm pretty darn good with it. A long time ago I took out a framing nail sticking out of a 2x4 at 100 yards when the rifle only had a little bb-gun size scope on it. Now it's got a big ol' Bushnell 4-12x with some kind of adjustment for yardage on the other end (the scope was given to me, so I don't even know what tricks it really does). I can literally keyhole rounds at 100 yards with what was a $70 gunshow rifle. I wondered one time if I hit the target with all of my 7 rounds, so I aimed in a different location for each shot of the next magazine and sure enough, a hole appeared in each place I intended to put one.
I had an SKS for a while and was never quite sure how to tell where it was manufactured. It felt and seemed pretty powerful, but I had a better chance of hitting something at a distance with the Rohm revolver! That SKS had a brutal, gritty, long trigger pull, a loose compensator and screws that seemed to randomly fall out of it. It had been converted to be some kind of hunting rifle and had a fiber/resin stock and a 5-shot top-loading, drop-bottom magazine. That and the Rohm are two guns where I am positive I am more accurate than the gun. It was another one that was given to me, but it just wasn't worth keeping. At least the Rohm has some sentimental value. When I think about it now, I probably should have held onto the SKS and tried to smooth the trigger and do whatever it might take to accurize it a little better. At the time I had no idea how to do either, so it got sold to someone who did want it.
I've always had some fascination with 'sniper' rifles, their power and accuracy, especially the much drooled over PSG-1. That one is pretty much a non-option due to price and availability. I like some of the AR variants I've seen in short carbine and also long thick barreled varmint versions, both with the flat tops and in either .308 or .223. I've considered Savage and Remington 700's in either .308 or .30-06. Combinations also appeal to me, like a short AR in .223 and a bolt gun in one of the .30 caliber options, or maybe both in .308 or .223 for ammo standardization. I'm still working on narrowing my wants down, since there's no real purpose other than to punch paper at a range or other targets far away from home. I hadn't really thought about one for if the 'S' ever did 'HTF', but it/they could be for that.
So what do I really want? Anybody want to tell me how to spend my money?
I already own a .22 lr bolt action rifle (Marlin something or other) and I'm pretty darn good with it. A long time ago I took out a framing nail sticking out of a 2x4 at 100 yards when the rifle only had a little bb-gun size scope on it. Now it's got a big ol' Bushnell 4-12x with some kind of adjustment for yardage on the other end (the scope was given to me, so I don't even know what tricks it really does). I can literally keyhole rounds at 100 yards with what was a $70 gunshow rifle. I wondered one time if I hit the target with all of my 7 rounds, so I aimed in a different location for each shot of the next magazine and sure enough, a hole appeared in each place I intended to put one.
I had an SKS for a while and was never quite sure how to tell where it was manufactured. It felt and seemed pretty powerful, but I had a better chance of hitting something at a distance with the Rohm revolver! That SKS had a brutal, gritty, long trigger pull, a loose compensator and screws that seemed to randomly fall out of it. It had been converted to be some kind of hunting rifle and had a fiber/resin stock and a 5-shot top-loading, drop-bottom magazine. That and the Rohm are two guns where I am positive I am more accurate than the gun. It was another one that was given to me, but it just wasn't worth keeping. At least the Rohm has some sentimental value. When I think about it now, I probably should have held onto the SKS and tried to smooth the trigger and do whatever it might take to accurize it a little better. At the time I had no idea how to do either, so it got sold to someone who did want it.
I've always had some fascination with 'sniper' rifles, their power and accuracy, especially the much drooled over PSG-1. That one is pretty much a non-option due to price and availability. I like some of the AR variants I've seen in short carbine and also long thick barreled varmint versions, both with the flat tops and in either .308 or .223. I've considered Savage and Remington 700's in either .308 or .30-06. Combinations also appeal to me, like a short AR in .223 and a bolt gun in one of the .30 caliber options, or maybe both in .308 or .223 for ammo standardization. I'm still working on narrowing my wants down, since there's no real purpose other than to punch paper at a range or other targets far away from home. I hadn't really thought about one for if the 'S' ever did 'HTF', but it/they could be for that.
So what do I really want? Anybody want to tell me how to spend my money?
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