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1 posted on 11/18/2017 6:57:29 AM PST by Simon Green
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https://www.windhamweaponry.com/firearms/rifles/762-39-caliber-rifle/


2 posted on 11/18/2017 7:01:33 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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As soon as we finish building a 5.56 AR for Mrs. L I’m going to start playing with uppers in different calibers.

L


3 posted on 11/18/2017 7:02:55 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Because the deer are now carrying AK-47’s?

;^)


4 posted on 11/18/2017 7:06:17 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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This is fake news, nobody needs an AR-15 to shoot deer
/sarcasm
5 posted on 11/18/2017 7:07:58 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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“A semi-auto changed my life,” Eric Mayer, who runs AR15hunter.com, told Time Magazine. “I’m able to make the (shot) because I don’t have to run the bolt (and) lose the target in my scope.”

With my Remington 700 Short-Action .243, I can cycle the bolt and never lose my sight picture.

My son helped me build my first AR, a 6.5 Grendel, with a 24in barrel. I haven't hunted with it yet.

6 posted on 11/18/2017 7:08:24 AM PST by Elderberry
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... the MSR lineup ...

I do hate the use of acronyms presented without full use in the 1st mention within an article. Anybody care to enlighten me? I doubt if it is Main Stream Rifle, but I could be wrong.

11 posted on 11/18/2017 7:22:02 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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Modularity and the ability to customize to suit personal taste seems to be a strong selling point in pretty much anything.


14 posted on 11/18/2017 7:24:10 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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First, the disclaimer: I don't like ARs. Never have, never will. But...

The ones made by a reputable company are quite as good tools for hunters as they are defensive weapons.

I am in my sixties now, with a bunch of physical issues that are common to codgers. I used to prefer manually-operated long guns, but I will now occasionally bobble a stroke on a pump-action or hang up a lever-action... no biggie when out plinking, but not real nice if I would need that round real bad. Advantage: semiautomatics.

Most semi autos are now coming equipped with relatively painless ways to mount optics and lights, two more things I didn't need when I was in my twenties but appreciate now. Another semiautomatic advantage.

Mr. niteowl77

17 posted on 11/18/2017 7:25:52 AM PST by niteowl77
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For us older ones, it may be a little different.

I’m too old to go big game hunting so don’t really need a super powerful rifle. I am on blood thinners and they now leave a big bruise on my shoulder that takes weeks to go away, and the possibility of a blood clot can kill you.

AR-15 or such type rifle is perfect. No bruising, the pistol grip is perfect for arthritic hands.

And it still makes the faint hearts lose bladder control to think I have one.


18 posted on 11/18/2017 7:27:13 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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remedial actions to clear malfunctions....

The only rifle I know of that's so basically shoddy it has a special plunger to clear all the jams. Ugly as sin, to boot. To think of all our men betrayed by that rifle over the years.
23 posted on 11/18/2017 7:31:16 AM PST by golux
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Uh, since no one has defined the acronym yet:

"Modern Sporting Rifle".

A marketing term, really, thought up by those who advocate for the AR platform as a hunting rifle. Fine by me, honestly. It makes a lot of sense, although it does limit one's choice of cartridges to those that can be accommodated by the AR action, which may or may not be a problem. (In which case, the obvious upgrade would be to an AR-10 platform.)

Have fun, guys, just please don't throw those old bolt guns in the trash. I'll take them if you don't want them.

28 posted on 11/18/2017 7:41:22 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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My life once depended on a “piece of crap” M16.
The damn thing jammed on the 2nd round and I had to duck and scramble to repair the jam while under enemy fire. This happened a whole 2 weeks after they took our highly reliable M14s from us and replaced them with the M16s.
Excuse me if I have no love or respect for the M16 or its civilian version the AR15.


35 posted on 11/18/2017 7:49:20 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Men stand up for freedom; slaves kneel before their masters.)
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To me, the best thing about the AR-15 is that it was designed to be easy to handle, easy to carry, light and unbelievably accurate for such a short barrel.

You can sling it so that it is on your back and go up a deer stand ladder like a squirrel.

Climbing the same ladder with a conventional .243 Remington or Winchester, .30-06, shotgun, etc., is very awkward and has caused many a nice gun to be scarred, fropped, or worse.

I find the AR-15 to be almost as easy to handle as a revolver or pistol. Just grab it and go.

For several years, I thought they were an ugly fad.

I now own two and am about to get a third.


41 posted on 11/18/2017 8:05:52 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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Jim Zumba is deeply saddened.


42 posted on 11/18/2017 8:06:07 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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No blaze orange cap.

Very bad.


44 posted on 11/18/2017 8:14:05 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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I was hunting with an HK-91 in 1985.


51 posted on 11/18/2017 8:43:32 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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The AR-15 is growing in popularity amongst the women folk because there are so many accessories available for the AR platform.

Women love to accessorize...


58 posted on 11/18/2017 9:01:25 AM PST by moovova
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I like the modularity aspect. Only thing that threw me on the article was this: “...because I don’t have to run the bolt (and) lose the target in my scope”

I’ve never had an issue losing something in my scope while cycling the bolt - at least not since before I started shooting match in high school.

Is this a real issue? Or just a bad habit of picking your head up when cycling?


60 posted on 11/18/2017 9:04:39 AM PST by reed13k
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I remember in years past, gunwriters and old time hunters would wax eloquent about why they preferred bolt actions with wood stocks. They were emphatic about the non appeal of plastic and aluminum.

More people and groups now have accepted the AR pattern rifle as a normal part of hunting and shooting. And of course there are wood Ar stocks/hangduards available.


63 posted on 11/18/2017 9:09:04 AM PST by Redcitizen
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Absolute nonsense

And hunters don’t trade in gear


66 posted on 11/18/2017 9:17:50 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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