SavageEagle
Grandmaster
- Apr 27, 2008
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your posts remind me of my nephew with ADD.
I wish I could claim that as an excuse! Unfortunatly, the only "mental" problem I can claim is having 3 crazy wild little girls and one crazy 2 yo boy and a fiancee that drives me nuts 24/7/365!!
The long shot? Don't go AK then. Even my PSL is outshot by an AR. I have an AK addiction, looks/fun/reliability/etc., but I would never claim accuracy. If you go that route, with those expectations, you will be very disappointed.
Oh they are accurate and reliable. But they are a bit on the heavy side.
Now, if you want one platform to do a bunch of different things, the AR lends itself well to that. A 16" carbine is good all around. A 9mm lets you shoot cheap and use for home defense if that makes you comfortable (I will stick with .223 myself). A 20"+ lets you plink out to longer ranges, but short of Zombie hunting that will never be a practical skill for civilian use.
I'm considering building an AR, but not one in pistol caliber. I'm thinking probably 5.56 because of the interchangeability between 556 and 223. Also, for the long shot neither an AR or AK gives me that. Which is why I will eventually go with a good Bolt Action. Caliber to be determined. What I will most likely do is Build an AR with some help from my friends... "have a little help from my friends.." hehehe and the down the road get me a good long range gun.
Just for some clarification... I'm buying my Baby Eagle and building an AR for practical purposes. For the most part. But why should I not, we all not, prepare for the absolute worst? We should be constrain our thinking to "practical civilian purposes" and "lawful use"? Those things leave you unprepared for a SERIOUS SHTF type scenario. Chances are, and God willing, we will never see all out war on American soil or have a tyrannical Government try to completely disarm us. We may never see a "Postman", or "Red Dawn", or "Day of the Dead/Land of the Dead". But why should we not prepare ourselves for these types of scenarios? What harm does being prepared do? I am a law abiding citizen, I follow the rules, I would never dream of doing anything to jeapordize my right to own or carry a firearm. But I won't sit idly by while people do what they can to destroy this Great Country. I won't allow my fellow citizens to turn this Country into the Roman Empire.
That is why I will train for the Long Shot. That is why I will study and eventually practice Guerilla Warfare. That is why I'm here. To learn all I can, to meet people who think the same way, and to hopefully learn what I can to teach the uninformed how to save this Country from the people who would destroy it.