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Posted by RonFin (Member # 3483) on April 26, 2011, 09:27 AM:
For a year or better I thought I wanted an AR for called multiple targets or follow-up shots.
My buddy just received his Dtech upper in 25 WSSM, so we went out to get it on paper. Didn't like the platform at all. The rifle functioned perfectly. We didn't have any problems. Just didn't like the feel or the spring noise or anything about it.
Can't really put my finger on it. Maybe it didn't seem as "pure" as a bolt action.
Maybe this is another example of getting older, you know "old dog, new tricks" kind of thing.
The good news is I just saved 2k or so!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2011, 09:51 AM:
No need to apologize, my son. I cannot get warm and fuzzy about those damned machine guns, either. Maybe for the next civil insurrection?
GH/LB
Posted by TOM64 (Member # 561) on April 26, 2011, 10:16 AM:
Dtech builds a nice, ummm heavy gun. Unfortunately, this ain't what a calling gun is to me.
Given a proper carbean that fits you, weighing 8 pounds or less and still shoots sub MOA, might change your mind. Completely different animal.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 26, 2011, 10:29 AM:
I owned three before I found one I liked and its a pretty good rifle and I use it alot but still like my 22-250 the best. Dont listen to leonard at his age its hard to change. roflmao!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2011, 10:40 AM:
Yeah, listen to Paul, the one with the 130 mile per hour death wish.
Posted by Az-Hunter (Member # 17) on April 26, 2011, 10:56 AM:
I don't keep very good records....in fact, I don't keep any, but I don't think Im far off if I say Ive owned around 15 different AR platform rifles over the years.I was having smiths put on weaver rails and bases on ARs, before rails on ARs were cool, all for competition purposes of course and not hunting.
To date, my wife has shot more coyotes with an AR than I have, and she has killed one. I like the AR platform, and enjoy shooting them, I have two now....again, one in standard machine gun configuration,M4 style, Eotech red dot sight, BUIS flip down irons, Magpul 30 rounds magazines, all that wack job stuff:). The other is a custom job, RRA lower, nice trigger, Lothar Walthar stainless fluted upper in .204, all green furniture with rubberized soft handguard....nice rifle.
I got it for possible hog hunting down here in the south, but I suspect I'll never pull the trigger on anything that bleeds with it either.
Im afraid Im a damned purist too, I love the ARs....just not for hunting. I like to feel wood under my grip and against my cheek, and the way a hunting rifle stock feels in the shoulder pocket as well as the balance.
The Ar platform is an amazing and proven battle rifle, just as the Rem M700 is a proven and amazing hunting rifle....I think I'll just keep them seperate, as it should be:)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2011, 11:08 AM:
Dang! I'm tied with Dorothee! But, the damned thing kept spinning, I think it took a whole magazine to settle his hash? Well, at least 4 shots, as I recall? And, this event was inside 50 yards. That was enough for me. A long time ago, might have been twenty years, still not convinced.
GH/LB
Posted by Kelly Jackson (Member # 977) on April 26, 2011, 11:39 AM:
Looking good LB
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2011, 12:48 PM:
I've seldom seen such treachery, amongst friends?
I can't believe I fell for that cursed PHOTO OP?
GH/LB
edit: who took that pic, koko? I didn't think you had the skill, not to mention the unmitigated gall, to betray me like that!
[ April 26, 2011, 12:52 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on April 26, 2011, 01:09 PM:
CAT DADDY...
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on April 26, 2011, 01:13 PM:
Ronfin,
If your pard can't like the "sproing", then swap the standard buffer spring with a TUBB flat wire spring
The annoying "sproing" will be a thing of the past...
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 26, 2011, 01:55 PM:
The man fondles my ar drools upon it and then has the nerve to speak poorly of it. lol look at how he caresses Kellys rifle in that pic you can feel the lust, just shamful.
Thay are fun to shoot easy to tote and care for whats not to love.
Posted by RonFin (Member # 3483) on April 26, 2011, 02:09 PM:
Tom, someday I'd like to have a light, short callin' gun. My 22-250 weighs in at more than this 25WSSM.
Vic, this AR has an A2 stock and it felt like it wasn't designed to ever fit in a shoulder pocket. Skinny, flat, ambidextrous. But it wasn't just that. LB uses the term machine gun, and I have always assumed he's just joking about the full auto versions. But I think "machine" is how I came away feeling about the receiver.
knockem, my buddy was wearing big ear protection. I'd bet he won't hear the sproing until the first time he hunts with it. He probably won't care either. He's one of those "throw it in the sand, stomp on it, and throw it in the truck" guys.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2011, 02:21 PM:
Fit me like a glove! I don't know what I have been missing.
GH/LB
Posted by JD (Member # 768) on April 26, 2011, 03:19 PM:
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someday I'd like to have a light, short callin' gun
I've just the AR for you, it's chambered in .17 rem, 18inch Lothar bbl, short gaurd and some other shit....I'll put on my hip boots and patches and pose out in the front yard with it and post a pic after a while.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 26, 2011, 06:56 PM:
El Bee;
I was nothing but a pawn in a larger chain of events. I'm a victim here also. There were forces of evil that wanted to Photo-Shop that picture, putting you into a wheel chair & attended by Janet Reno in a mini-skirted nurse's uniform. I put my foot down and said no way. Besides, I don't have Photo-Shop. Remember, no matter how it looks, we've got your back!!!! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on April 29, 2011, 05:40 PM:
RonFin,
Agreed. Don't care for an AR as a hunting rifle.
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