.22
223
223AI
224 Predator
6.5 Grendel
300BLK
.22
223
223AI
224 Predator
6.5 Grendel
300BLK
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Hmmm.
22LR
9mm
45acp
223
224Valk
6CM
6.5CM
300BO
308
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I wish I had the funds for it. I've been trying to scrape up enough since you posted it for sale the last time. It hasn't been a good year for gun or ammo purchases on my tight budget.Originally Posted by rob_s
I think the 6.8 has a lot going for it, but it’s really a specialty caliber nowadays being that there isn’t any real military support or use, so hunting seems to be its most practical niche. Pretty much any well-made upper with reasonable loads should be effective on deer and like-sized animals to at least 300 yards. A lot of guys on the 68forum use it for deer, hogs, coyotes and other varmints, and a guy I know took a full-grown mountain lion at over 350 yards with one shot. Some have even used it for elk with similar success, so it is a capable round. .270 Short, you might call it.
I built my upper with a 16” ARP Recon barrel when my scrawny 13yo couldn’t hold up anything longer or heavier than an AR carbine, and it’s an accurate upper that he shot well, but he’s lost interest in hunting for now, and I never really cared too much about hunting with an AR, so it just sits in the back of the safe. Hence my own comment that I wouldn’t mind getting out of it myself.
Might have to drag it out and see what I can do with it.
A few 5.56 milspec/Colt builds and one Troy 308.
I'm strongly tempted by .300BO but the itch came way too late.
Just 5.56mm but I’d like to get a Sig Rattler in .300blk.
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22LR
5.56
300BO
I have a single 5.56 rifle. And I'd like my next one to be 5.56 too, but more like my service rifle.
Honestly, most of my rifle knowledge comes from the service. I shot a fair amount of 5.56 and I feel comfortable with its bullet drop. Some of that is drastic overconfidence because I haven't had an AR out to any kind of distance in a few years. At the same time I'm not sure that learning a new caliber's normal flight and holdovers is really something I'm up for. I guess if I was going to get another caliber I'd just got for a .308 or something like that.
Of course if money was no option I'd have 2 more 5.56, a 300BO, and a 308.
One 5.56, but I'm holding my son's 6.5 Grendel while he's overseas. I've considered having the 5.56 rebuilt as a 300 BLK.
5.56
22lr
6.5 Grendel
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