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Yeah, I've looked into it. But for the price you're gonna pay to get into a new stock that's halfway decent and get mags you're gonna spend at least half of what a new 308 costs.Originally Posted by SNAFU
+1!!! Thats on keeping it. Not the donation...LOLOK OK, you guys talked me off the edge of the cliff. I'll keep the AR and start pinching my pennies.
Unless someone wants to donate to my cause
"An individual is only entiteld to one's rights as long as one respects the rights of others."...R.F.
Being a groomsman at your wedding, I may be qualified to offer an opinion.
Look at your Grandpa Jimbo. You think he got to where he is right now selling other guns to buy new ones? Nope. You think he a acquired all of those beautiful projectile launchers through many years of patience and saving? I'd like to think so. Do not ever sell guns unless you absolutely have to for financial reasons. Yeah I sold my .308 SPS to a guy on here because I needed rent money, it hurts to open the safe and not see that thing anymore. That Beretta 92 I had? Yeah, not the best sidearm in the world, but I made it through police academy with that thing, and I feel like a piece of my soul is missing every time I think about it.
Keep your AR bro, Give it to your grandson someday.
Every so often I think of selling my AR to fund an M1A...the cost of ammo is usually what it comes down to for me...
And I'd take an M1A over an AR-10 any day of the week, based on style points alone
Yeah but to get an M1A to do what an AR can out of the box is gonna cost ya some coin...
But I agree, M1As have WAAAAY more cool factor.
I think you mad a good choice. You've got a .308 already. It fits the role you described rather well. While yes, it will run you 1/2 the new .308 to upgrade the bolt gun, the bolt gun update will be well worth it. Especially considering the described role. Me, I dumped a lot of weapons over the last few years consolidating into a practical array. I off loaded my .308 bold gun, but only because I have a PTR91 (technically seeing as it is sitting at the bottom of a Colorado lake) that I want to accuratise and turn into a LR support rifle. The AR .308 base platform from the likes of DPMS has not exactly proven to be the AH-HA platform that many getting into the AR-10 world hoped it would. Sure, you can upgrade it to make it good, but by that point you're near enough to the LMT .308 or a seriously well done bench built rifle.
Ah well brother, you're doing the right thing and saving to buy instead of giving something up that you know that you'll regret doing.
With all you guys lying about loosing your guns in a boating accident sometime before they come to collect them all. They are never going to believe me that's what happened to all of mine.
Who are you to want to escape a thugs bullet? That is only a personal prejudice, ( Atlas Shrugged)
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Upgrade The Ar
If the SHTF, you might end up using the AR to take small game for food,rabbits,squirrels,etc. Get a .22lr adapter. I bought a Ciener and will definitely take with me if civilization fails. You can carry alot of 22 ammo in backpack.
I have read that alot of grizzly bears have been taken in Alaska with 22's shot just behind the ear. Just saying alot cheaper and versatile than an expensive battle rifle and it's accompanying accessories...just my 2 cents.
This...
and 7.62x51 weighs a lot more!
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