What do you use your rifle for?

[mcdonl]

Hi all, hows it going? I hope your all having a GREAT day.

I wanted to ask, what do you all PRIMARILY use your rifles that are equipped with optics for?

There have been many great discussions about the benefits of good optics, and this is not about that. I have just read how many of you really appreciate what you get when you spend $100's sometimes $1000's on very nice, high end optics and it just made me curious as to what you do with your rifles.

If you want to add in the thread how often you do what it is you voted on in the post that would be cool too.

AND... to make it REALLY fun, go ahead and post a picture of your rifle, doing what you do with it, sporting the fine optics you use...

Thanks for indulging me!!

 

[CoRoMo]

How do I vote for three of those four options?

 

[P.B.Walsh]

Yea really, I use mine for hunting and target shooting!!

 

[GunsBeerFreedom]

All of the above, and then some.

 

[Col. Plink]

Well, duh...

 

[mcdonl]

Well, I asked for the PRIMARY use, so if you hunt... and you target shoot to prepare for hunting then select hunting...

Not that big a deal, I am just trying to get a feel for what people do with their rifles.

 

[TeamPrecisionIT]

Primary use for my AR with optics is 3 Gun, but obviously use it for plinking and HD, too.

Damian

 

[HGUNHNTR]

Fondling

 

[mcdonl]

3 Gun sounds AWESOME. Are the courses setup so that optics are required, or are they just a no-brainer?

HG... you need to show some restraint!!

 

[CoRoMo]

what do you all PRIMARILY use your rifles that are equipped with optics for?

My .270s are used for hunting.
My .22lr is used for plinking and hunting, but probably gets more plinking time.
My 5.56 rifles are used for competing/defense training courses.

Three of the four options. But I wonder what it would be like to take my M77 .270 to the next fighting rifle class. Hmmmm.

 

[dubbleA]

Shooting a monthly rimfire match here on THR.



My favorite would be introducing youth into shooting.....

 

[M2 Carbine]

I wanted to ask, what do you all PRIMARILY use your rifles that are equipped with optics for?

I have a number of rifles that are equipped with scopes, Red Dot sights and laser/lights but all my rifles are used for informal target shooting.

Several are primarily HD guns but are still used for plinking.

AND... to make it REALLY fun, go ahead and post a picture of your rifle,

A couple.
03A4


Rock River Arms NM AR

doing what you do with it

Having a home range and my reloaded ammo being so inexpensive I can teach people to shoot rifles that they normally wouldn't get a chance to shoot.

 

[possum]

my work gun is just that the m4 that i carry and use at work as an Infantry Squad Leader.

my personal ar is used in the context of defense, i use it to train mostly.

 

[mcdonl]

Wow... these pictures are awesome. This is a great thread!

 

[ArmedBear]

I use my rifle to club little baby seals. The optics add to the overall weight so I only have to hit them 8 or 10 times, instead of 15-20.

 

[Cosmoline]

Mostly plinking and working up loads these past years because I haven't had time for hunting. I also keep the Mosin handy for home defense.

 

[mcdonl]

Armedbear... it reminds me of a picture I saw once of a guy about to club a baby seal (Fake I presume....) and it said... do not purchase if seal is broken... ya sicko.

So, it looks like hunting and plinking are the primary uses. I am starting to get a better picture as to why expensive optics are the common thread around here. Seems like you can cut corners on the actual gun, but not the optics if you are relying on the humane harvesting of animals in inclimate weather, in the typical low light of early/late day at some serious distances given your region.

 

[Wanta B]

Ummm...to shoot the competition!

 

[M2 Carbine]

dubbleA, that is a cool picture of that young lady. What program did you do that with?

 

[dubbleA]

I have some new Corel,Pinnacle and Paintshop software but that was done with 10 yr old microsoft stuff, still one of my favorites. It's simply overlaying pictures in a picture. Thanks for the kind words.

BTW, that's her 1st time handloading. I made her load own cartridges and that was her first time shooting that AR at 100 yds. She pulled off a 5 shot group that went a 1/2" and thought it was no big deal.

 

[Maverick223]

My primary use is probably plinking and/or target shooting. Some hunting, but that certainly constitutes much less shooting than range work.

Shooting a monthly rimfire match here on THR.

We still haven't forgiven you for that target.

I use my rifle to club little baby seals

One of my favorite past-times...it helps you really connect with nature.

 

[wishin]

Mostly target shooting. Some deer hunting. My "best" scope on a rifle of mine is a Bushnell Elite. The others are cheaper Barskas and a Simmons. Nothing expensive, but work just fine.

 

[Mags]

I mostly train with mine for work (military) related duties and home defense, so I checked military/police since that was the most applicable but only vaguely applicable.

 

[Hatterasguy]

My rifles are simply "toys" I use to punch holes in paper with.


My friend in the Marines OTOH uses his M4 for its intended purpose.

 

[mcdonl]

My rifles are simply "toys" I use to punch holes in paper with.

Same here, and to perfectly honest I am not all that great so I guess that is why cheapo scopes have suited me fine. But, maybe the optics are a part of what is holding me back. This years resolution was to NOT buy a cheap $200 gun every month, but to save and 1 or 2 good guns a year... maybe next year will be accesories only!

My friend in the Marines OTOH uses his M4 for its intended purpose.

And tell him me and mine say thank you.