AR thoughts.........

by Byron, Sunday, October 07, 2012, 11:07 (4377 days ago)

Nice to see the board is warming to the very useful and versitile AR15/M16 family. I recall a time when conversations regarding these handy rifles regularly became disrespectful...the majority opinion was they were Matty Matel junk good for nothing but shooting chipmunks...one at a time as thay was all they could be counted on to fire without tieing up...times change...for the better...for the good....

My thoughts are that ARs can be broken down into just of couple of subsets...while they are the modular "Mr. Potato Head" of rifles...only just a couple of real different layouts....

Without doubt the most pleasent to shoot and the easyist to hit with at different ranges is a full size rifle with 20" barrel and quality telescope...the USMC pattern ACOG on this full length A4 will allow consistent hits on a dinner plate at the limits of the round...close to half mile...any AR collection should have one...

The simple bare bones M4gery with 16" barrel and collapsable stock is the handyest ofs the lot...no muss no fuss...this Armalite midlength is the back porch rifle...the 1.5-5x illuminated 4200 Elite scope and 200 lume light is just the ticket for raccoons down at the chicken coop at night...the short lenght make it handy in and out of vehicles and the collapsable stock will adjust to fit small women and children...this is the style to have if you can have only one...BUIS are no big deal for me...in fact kinda in the way...as the scope is wonderful and the rifle is not abused...

The fancy 16" is special...at least for me...Aimpoint Red Dot with battery life measured in years...850 lume spotlight...fixed A1 sights that never go out of zero...full length Troy Battle Rail covering the 1/7" twist barrel out to the front sight...don't burn your hands on the hot barrel like on a CAR...the Aimpoint and spotlight will allow easy ID of targets and shooting at full dark to a couple of hundred yards...handy on the farm...nice...

Byron