eani meani minei mo...........

by Byron, Thursday, April 05, 2012, 19:29 (4563 days ago) @ John Meeker

ARs come in so many styles that they are the Mr. Potato Head of weapons....short...long...simple....complex...light....heavy....

Whats best...who knows.......

At one end of this spectrum is the iron sight straight on AR15...no lights...no red dots....no rails....plain and simple....KISS....

This plain jane Bushmaster Dissapator earned me a Appleseed Rifleman badge...equivilent to shooting a couple of hundred rounds in field position into 4 MOA...

This JP Precision Rifle shoots to a level of accuracy that is hard to measure...a good pull will put a bullet on the crosshair...the brake is so effective that from a sandbag rest you can see the bullet hole appear...still it is very noisy and harsh to shoot because of it...this rifle with a can would be too cool for school...

After much wasted time and money I have decided the most "practical" AR15 is a fixed sight 16" dissapator style with a HIGH quality rail system (no airsoft junk)with a 1/7" twist chrome bore and a compact red dot sight mounted with a 1/3 cowitness and a HIGH quality high output LED weapon light.

The uber high zoot rifles are of course very good....the mid range ARs are just fine....

I prefer 1/7" as it allow the use of M262 style ammo....16" is long enought...the rifle should have iron sights....for a practical rifle I prefer the simple A1 style than the A2 target sight...or folding...it should have a red dot with battery life measured in 1000s of hours...it should have a collapsible stock to allow for better handling in close quarters and to fit children and small women...it should be fitted with a LED light of at least 200 LUME....

In addition...you should have a minimum of 25 mags...mix of 20 and 30...and most important....more ammo than you can carry....

Byron