Thanks. Yeah, I think I’m going to go with the AR15 and put a 20 inch barrel on it that will handle .223 Rem and 5.56mm. I figure that will give me 600 yrds.
I was looking at ammo. Wow. .308 cost between $0.70 and $1.00 per round. Pretty hard to stock up on 10k rounds at that price.
“I think I’m going to go with the AR15 and put a 20 inch barrel on it that will handle .223 Rem and 5.56mm. I figure that will give me 600 yrds.”
I used a Yankee Hill Machine flat top upper and bought the barrel from Model 1, which uses E.R Shaw to produce all sorts of different configurations, .223 vs 5.56 Nato chambers, and a variety of twists, lengths and weights. I am very pleased and the price was good at that time, late November 2008, but things have gone up since, thanks to the best arms salesman ever.
I bought the rest from Brownells. I had the lower built for $200 so I have less then $500 in a very nice set up with a stainless fluted barrel, alum forearm and quad rail gas assembly. Be tough to do for less than $600 now.
http://www.model1sales.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_ID=106
Reload.
Much cheaper.
Oh, you won’t “save” any money, but you’ll shoot A LOT more :)