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March 25, 2014, 07:18 PM | #51 |
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I got my daughter an Ithaca-37 police/riot shotgun back in the early 90's
when she was at the Univ of Florida/Gainesville and the serial murders were in full swing. Somehow I'd gotten the gun back for temp keeping some years ago as she was moving PCS w/ her husband. Several months ago she got it back, and I took her husband out with it to the local range. We set a large cardboard wardrobe box up at 10-12 feet using double-ought buck.... He wanted to calibrate both himself and the weapon. One hole. Maybe 4 inches in diameter and easily producing the most horrifically possible human wound imaginable.... But one hole. (He was impressed in what that meant in terms of still having to maintain absolute sight concentration -- short-barreled "shot"gun or not ) Last edited by mehavey; March 26, 2014 at 12:19 PM. |
March 26, 2014, 10:03 PM | #52 |
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Home Defense or Constitutional Defense?
You said you wanted a rifle for target shooting at long range and defense. Are they linked or are you talking about home defense as well? What is your budget? Have you considered more than one weapon?
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March 28, 2014, 10:36 PM | #53 |
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Buy a Mosin, still cheap. Reloadable ammo is affordable as well. And you can modify it all you want. Improve it for target shooting.
Point is, it "can" be used for home defense ... I got mine in the kitchen, bolt open, with an open box of ammo on the spice rack lol. But also, it's cheap, and you can now also afford a shotgun for just home defense. Which is my next weapon, my wife to be told me she's buying me a shotgun after our wedding, due to the fact that my birthday us two days before our wedding (no way I'll ever forget our anniversary lol add two days to my birthday) Of course we also have two handguns in the bedroom
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March 29, 2014, 08:46 AM | #54 | |
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Most Bang for the Buck: $625 from the CMP M1 Garand Probably a military Surplus: M1 Garand Reasonably reliable (make the extremely reliable) M1 Garand Not Pricey, ammo available. 200 Rounds for $118 from the CMP M1 Garand Lets add Accuracy. Service Grand capable of 3 moa with irons. Positive clicks (1 MOA) to 1200 yards, sighting system easy to use. M1 Garand Hunting, capable of taking any game in NA, 100 to 220 gr. bullets M1 Garand Parts availability (Thought I've been shooting mine for over 30 years and haven't broke anything). Parts are available from the CMP, Gun parts Inc. and hundreds of other places across the country. M1 Garand I don't believe in an all around do everything rifle, but the M1 Garand comes closer then anything I can think of.
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April 9, 2014, 08:35 PM | #55 |
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Ruger Mini-Thirty Tactical
I was looking for the same type of gun as you, went with a new Ruger Mini-Thirty Tactical Rifle, and could not be happier!
Its short (about 37"), light, no protruding pieces like an AR-15, accurate, and fires a cheap but powerful round (7.62x39). And it only cost about $800. Also, its about as reliable as an AK and is very easy to clean. I clean my guns every time I shoot them, but my father has the same gun and has put about 1000 rounds of russian steel through his without a cleaning and has yet to have any problems. Its really the perfect gun. The ammo is the cheapest centerfire rifle ammo you can find so you can afford to shoot it, and they make higher quality ammo for hunting or self defense. Accuracy is more than enough. I shoot about 2 MOA with cheap russian steel ammo, that means at 300 yards you're still putting rounds in a 6 inch circle. Considering most medium game (people included) are shot under 150 yards, this gun is great for hunting, self defense, and of course SHTF scenarios. Where I live, its rare to have a sightline over 200 yards anyway. Another bonus is, unlike the AR, its unlikely to be banned anytime in the near future. For me that was an issue since I live in a state where AR's are already restricted to some degree. The only complaint I have about the mini is that the factory magazines are expensive and aftermarket magazines are pretty bad. If Ruger made a mini in .300 blackout, it might just be the perfect gun (assuming you can find the ammo for it!). |
April 9, 2014, 08:41 PM | #56 |
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All good suggestions, and I did get a Ruger mini14 in 223 Rem! Love it
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April 9, 2014, 08:46 PM | #57 |
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One of our duty weapons was the Mini-14 which fires 223. I have seen literally 10s of thousands of rounds put through them in six week cycles and only cleaned at the end of a cycle.
I have an SKS that fires the 7.62x39 round and it is a great weapon and when I got it I paid $150 for it. I want a mini 30 very bad. Just wish I had bought one from our Rugar rep when they were less expensive. I really like all my rifles, but a Mini would be a nice add. I have become very partial to lever guns lately. Not very likely to be banned and though they are not as fast as a semi auto, they are fast enough. You should really only fire when you have a good sight picture anyway and I can crank another round in it and acquire a new sight picture almost as fast and I can with the semi autos. Really the only point I wanted to make is I really like the Mini 30 and 14. Mel
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April 9, 2014, 08:56 PM | #58 |
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Savage over/under model 24. 30-06 20 gage.
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May 1, 2014, 01:41 AM | #59 |
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Best all-around rifle
Seems to me that to qualify the rifle would have to be able to:
Be carried by a wide range of carriers some distance Be effective in shooting animals (4-legged) for nourishment and (2-legged for turning the odds and winning a battle) as well as roughing up their vehicles of all types. A simple loading technique with a reasonably high capacity so that you can stay in the game longer (that is, removable mags) THe ability to load (loading done by someone else)in parallel with shooting to stay in the fight continuously A round that can take down large animals and can penetrate barriers before hitting it's target (within reason) A round that can be shot from a mid-priced gun that can be tuned for reasonable accuracy and be altered for a surpressor. To me, this leaves the .308 front and center with it's ballistic friends 30-30 and 300 win mag as alternatives. My favorites, the 335 lapua mag and the 300 RUM just skew too much to high power uses to be broadly acceptable just as .223/5.56 skews low. I'd pick an FNH FNAR as a gun that appears a 'tweener' caught between military and police rifles and modern hunting rifles. Safer looking in a crowd than an M4 - depending who carries it. Or it's shooting grandfather the Browning BAR which would be offputting to very few. B |
May 1, 2014, 10:55 AM | #60 |
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buy yourself a tc encore and then choose the barrel and length!!!
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May 1, 2014, 10:59 AM | #61 | |
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kraigwy - you have a very convincing sales pitch for the M1 Garand , it really puts things in perspective "nicely done".... I just wouldn't consider 60 cents per round to be very affordable if one does a lot of shooting.
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May 1, 2014, 12:55 PM | #62 |
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Mini-14 is fun.
Have one. Unfortunately, it took 2 trips back to Ruger to resolve some jamming issues [when new]. Still like it a lot. Another thought: SAIGA .308/7.62 Nato. Also fun. Don't know if it is banned in New Jersey though. I have 10 round mags for mine as I'm in another socialist state: California. Just a thought. |
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I appreciate you actually showing some Bolt guns that are lighter than the Levers. Most on that list, save the ruger and mossberg MVP, are either discontinued or very hard to find.
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May 2, 2014, 07:59 PM | #64 |
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O3A3, custom stock, stock peep sights... Period.
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May 3, 2014, 05:36 AM | #65 |
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Mosin Nagant
I am partial to the Carbines but have one 91-30 also. Ammo is cheap plus you can reload for them I shoot mostly cast bullets out of mine. Bad part???? Well once you have one you most likely will have two or three or four. |
May 3, 2014, 06:36 AM | #66 |
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SKS carbines are fun to shoot and easy to maintain.
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May 3, 2014, 11:47 AM | #67 |
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For all around balance of affordability, serviceability and just plain old fun to shoot, the Mosin's are really hard to beat. 7.62x54r is plenty to take down just about anything you are going to hunt in North America. Ammo is easy to find and the gun is built so simply that any one with fingers could service it.
I've done some reloads with 150gr cast bullets sitting on 11.5gr of unique that were mouse fart loads and they shot very well. For a beginning shooter it would be like shooting .22lr.
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Since the OP is now the proud owner of a Mini, we can now wait for the next question.
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