Thanks man, its been a good while lol. Nice to see some familiar names :)
And yea, pretty much any straight wall case big bore would be good to go, sounds like youre pretty good to roll with the 458 winmag.
Im waiting for the marlin 45-70 dark series to be in stock...
My vote goes to 45-70...more than enough power, pretty common round, good options for platforms, and has a pretty smooth recoil (in my opinion, anyway)
Edit: easy to reload as well (straight wall case). So shooting more is cheaper. Also since theres almost n overbore pressure on the round the...
this will be my last post on this topic...while we have been talking about a pound saved and blah blah blah...lets really examine this, and try to get the info straight here...
jester, since you seem to be the one posting all the info regarding this...can you explain how a 13" rail is just...
im not really sure why where i live now really matters...but if you really want to bring it up, at least i could actually buy this 'new' ar if i wanted to...for those stuck in MD still this is pretty much just a hypothetical day dreaming thread...sorry.
when the topic was made about the rail...
i swear you crack me up man...:lol2:
you keep mentioning hikes and stuff...unless this is SHTF, im not taking my AR hiking, it will be a boltie .308 which will be considerably heavier than even my AR let alone this 'revolutionary' ultralight...secondly, if you are going on a 20 mile hike, the...
perhaps...but considering that 2 people were kick out, and their working on getting rid of the mag limit seems like their making up for it...
at least i could go out right now and buy anything i want and walk out with it, while carrying...ill take that over MD any day lol
edit: hey, for those...
such as? we are talking what...a pound on the generous side in terms of weight shaved total? i would also guess that is with a standard carbine buffer (no h2 or h3) and obviously a bare bone rifle...but lets just go with it.
less weight = less recoil dampening = more dependency on a...