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I have a stupid question may be some people will give their opinion.
After seeing ad after ad with people selling what I would call Tactical/Military rifles or gear It made me wonder - Am I missing something.
The obvious reasons for one of these are:
Semiautomatic , Rugged, Great Varmit rifle - using the bipods, You can customize it, It is Their Bug Out rifle, Because you can get them.
From what I am hearing is more are using for hunting.
But the hunting argument seems only to be valid if it is your only gun. After all why pay twice as much for a much heavier rifle.
MY questions are: ( Yes I have been doing searches on line)
1. Why such a heavy interest in these guns? Obviously peaked my interest
2. Obviously if you came through the military the nomenclature is clearer . IS there some documentation that clarifies what is what . I thought I understood what AK47, AR15 and AR 10 are. But then you have 10 000 variants like AK74, LAR8. etc.
3. Are the shorter barrels accurate at 300 400 yds?
4. How many actually hunt with them - I am assuming using the .308 cartridge.
5. Seems like it is a huge customization market - every one is selling parts of systems
6. Are most of these old systems or are they new manufacturing models of old designs?
7. Any other comments / recommendations
After seeing ad after ad with people selling what I would call Tactical/Military rifles or gear It made me wonder - Am I missing something.
The obvious reasons for one of these are:
Semiautomatic , Rugged, Great Varmit rifle - using the bipods, You can customize it, It is Their Bug Out rifle, Because you can get them.
From what I am hearing is more are using for hunting.
But the hunting argument seems only to be valid if it is your only gun. After all why pay twice as much for a much heavier rifle.
MY questions are: ( Yes I have been doing searches on line)
1. Why such a heavy interest in these guns? Obviously peaked my interest
2. Obviously if you came through the military the nomenclature is clearer . IS there some documentation that clarifies what is what . I thought I understood what AK47, AR15 and AR 10 are. But then you have 10 000 variants like AK74, LAR8. etc.
3. Are the shorter barrels accurate at 300 400 yds?
4. How many actually hunt with them - I am assuming using the .308 cartridge.
5. Seems like it is a huge customization market - every one is selling parts of systems
6. Are most of these old systems or are they new manufacturing models of old designs?
7. Any other comments / recommendations