Posted on 08/16/2022 4:37:49 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly
MUH TRIGGAZ! LOL…Love it. Thanks for sharing!
LOL, great post
Great post, and Yon is outstanding, but 5.56mm is a great caliber.
One of the greatest things about 556 is that ammo and magazines are abundant and available.
300 blackout has its uses, especially if you hand load, but if that’s the only AR upper you have, you will be alone and out of ammo when everybody else is still shooting the most common calibers: .22LR, .223/5.56, .308, 30-30, 7.62X39 etc.
I am in the process of building a ghost polymer80 15. Lots of moving parts in the lower. It takes time.
Great read! Funny.
Could have been written by Kurt Schlichter. (Humor and sarcasm)
Gotta agree with the 7.62x51 and 300 BO bias.
You can shoot a 5.62 AR one handed. Like a loud .22.
Oh wait, it IS .22 caliber ...
M-
OPTION B: Spent .223 cases can be collected and cut down to 300. But then there’s the primer and bullet inventory thing.
See option A: common calibers means not only available ammo, but available guns and spare parts.
.223 and 7.62x51/.308 remain compelling choices.
Bump-stock to the top...
I agree. Everyone should own two or more.
45/70 + a man’s caliber
I agree with Yon. Most of what I shoot is 30 caliber and larger.
I reload .223 for a friend, but don’t own one.
Total agreement.
In the south, a 30-30 lever gun and a .243 bolt gun also approach universal availability.
And .243 / .308 essentially use the same brass, necked down.
Depends a lot on where you live.
In much of the south, it’s rare to get a 200 yard shot.
I know of the terrorist Yon is talking about.
He shot my friend’s cousin, in Mosul.
Smaller calibers are fine. I used to do all my own butchering and have dropped countless beef with a 22LR. Shot placement is what counts.
As a kid I was given 3 shells and told to come back with 3 meat animals. I learned real quick. Learn to focus and take head shots even at deer.
Ak-47 instead.................................
Never ever buy an AR-15 in .223. It will jamb with 5.56 ammo. Buy a 5.56, it will handle .223 without a hitch. The guns/ammo are not fully interchangeable like the .308/7.62x51 are.
Gee, when I was young, a long time ago, teenagers, myself included, could own and use BB guns and even 22 cal rifles. I can’t recall any multiple or even single random shootings. So why has that changed? Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence. And we still believed we would all answer to God one day for our actions.
On the other hand, an M-14 (7.62x51) is a battle rifle. For going into battle with.
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