And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Why an AR based platform? Because I'm old and beat up. It's light, handy and with the right ammo, it's a fight stopper. Parts are inexpensive and plentiful. Even with 55 grain M193 ( the original round) a 10 inch pistol with brace will easily put hits on people out to 200+ yards. A 16 inch carbine can do that out to 400+ yards, with optics you've doped. Better with 62 to 77 gr bullets. Where is one likely to get into a firefight? At home, across your yard, across your property, across the street, down the block? 5.56 is deadly and accurate at those ranges. If the problem is further away, evasion is likely a better choice. The M193 will yaw and break at the cannelure, creating multiple wound channels, with sufficient velocity, 2400 fps, (I think that's less than 100 yards with a 10" AR). Premium ammo might be better, but you can't get it for 42 to 50 cents a round. An M14 (xlnt gun that it is) is gonna be 11-12+ pounds with a scope and loaded mag, plus 3 or 4 times the recoil. You can only carry 1/3 - 1/2 as much ammo as 5.56. No, I'm not recoil sensitive, I shoot a Compact 18", pencil barreled Ruger American with a 3x9x40 or 42, Nikon. It doesn't hurt, I'm 74, I'm also 6' and 220+ pounds, so that helps.
yeah. I also keep a 10.5 barreled "pistol" in my truck. handy as hell. and good enough to 200 yards easy. I do load my magazines with 77 grain bullets. if I need it and them, I want it to work at it's best. old Burris 3x sight and I good to 200 and a bit more it need be. BTW, the first 3 rounds are tracer ammo. that way I know to get my ass under cover and change magazines. the good thing about PA CCW laws is I can keep it in my truck as a pistol. but any rifles have to be unloaded. ?? anyway.
I was trained with a M16A2 and M9. I always felt the 5.56 did not have enough punch with 55gr ammo and full auto is for show. I have a AR in 5.56 but my goto is an AR pistol in 9mm with a 10.5" barrel. I have put hundreds of thousands of rounds down range with a M9 and my 92AF INOX. I am very comfortable with the M9 variants. I am also very comfortable with a 1911 except in 10mm.
I can do long range but it will be with a bolt action that can reach out there.
The M-16 was first a US Air Farce security weapon. Those fly boys needed a lighter gun for guarding their air bases. Some disingenuous/criminal azz wipes in the US Congress took a ton of bribes and convinced the Pentagon that the "Mattie Matell Varmint Gun" was a better choice than the M-14. I can just about guarantee you that none of the decision makers ever fired a shot in anger.
as a senior citizen, I am not planning on getting in to any gunfights. Evasion is first priority if it comes to it - but if evasion is not an option, .45 in the nightstand will hopefully buy enough time to get to the rifle.
I am old enough to have been trained on the M-14. A real rifle. When they came out with the "Mattie Matell Varmint Gun," I was appalled.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they are more reliable now, because it wouldn't be possible to be less reliable than the one I used in ITR. The M-14 I qualified with for me.
ReplyDeleteWhy? BFYTW.
ReplyDeleteWhy an AR based platform? Because I'm old and beat up. It's light, handy and with the right ammo, it's a fight stopper. Parts are inexpensive and plentiful. Even with 55 grain M193 ( the original round) a 10 inch pistol with brace will easily put hits on people out to 200+ yards. A 16 inch carbine can do that out to 400+ yards, with optics you've doped. Better with 62 to 77 gr bullets.
ReplyDeleteWhere is one likely to get into a firefight? At home, across your yard, across your property, across the street, down the block? 5.56 is deadly and accurate at those ranges. If the problem is further away, evasion is likely a better choice.
The M193 will yaw and break at the cannelure, creating multiple wound channels, with sufficient velocity, 2400 fps, (I think that's less than 100 yards with a 10" AR). Premium ammo might be better, but you can't get it for 42 to 50 cents a round.
An M14 (xlnt gun that it is) is gonna be 11-12+ pounds with a scope and loaded mag, plus 3 or 4 times the recoil. You can only carry 1/3 - 1/2 as much ammo as 5.56. No, I'm not recoil sensitive, I shoot a Compact 18", pencil barreled Ruger American with a 3x9x40 or 42, Nikon. It doesn't hurt, I'm 74, I'm also 6' and 220+ pounds, so that helps.
yeah. I also keep a 10.5 barreled "pistol" in my truck. handy as hell. and good enough to 200 yards easy. I do load my magazines with 77 grain bullets. if I need it and them, I want it to work at it's best. old Burris 3x sight
Deleteand I good to 200 and a bit more it need be.
BTW, the first 3 rounds are tracer ammo. that way I know to get my ass under cover and change magazines.
the good thing about PA CCW laws is I can keep it in my truck as a pistol.
but any rifles have to be unloaded. ?? anyway.
I was trained with a M16A2 and M9. I always felt the 5.56 did not have enough punch with 55gr ammo and full auto is for show. I have a AR in 5.56 but my goto is an AR pistol in 9mm with a 10.5" barrel. I have put hundreds of thousands of rounds down range with a M9 and my 92AF INOX. I am very comfortable with the M9 variants. I am also very comfortable with a 1911 except in 10mm.
ReplyDeleteI can do long range but it will be with a bolt action that can reach out there.
The M-16 was first a US Air Farce security weapon. Those fly boys needed a lighter gun for guarding their air bases. Some disingenuous/criminal azz wipes in the US Congress took a ton of bribes and convinced the Pentagon that the "Mattie Matell Varmint Gun" was a better choice than the M-14. I can just about guarantee you that none of the decision makers ever fired a shot in anger.
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ReplyDeleteI strongly prefer a Tula SKS over those .22 calibers.
ReplyDeleteAlso - the AR platform is like a Barbie, but for guys. You can dress it up all sorts of different ways.
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as a senior citizen, I am not planning on getting in to any gunfights. Evasion is first priority if it comes to it - but if evasion is not an option, .45 in the nightstand will hopefully buy enough time to get to the rifle.
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