With all due respect, the question is not only fair and valid, it's essential. Guns are for shooting like automobiles are for driving. If someone with five kids asked what kind of automobile to buy, would you suggest a Honda Fit? After all, automobiles are for driving, right?hub1home said:"What caliber, what is the intended use?"
The caliber would be .556 and the intended use would be all around shooting. I am not trying to be a smart aleck with shooting for the answer but I hate that question. It is like asking intended use for an automobile.
You would be surprised. IMHO most people haver very specific ideas in mind when building an ar pistol. Most seem to be primarily defensive pdw types.ideas vary from home, to vehicle, to EDC with a quick detach in a bag. Some want pistol calibers, others 223, others 300 so they can suppress it. I think you are the first person I have ever seen who said general shooting."What caliber, what is the intended use?"
The caliber would be .556 and the intended use would be all around shooting. I am not trying to be a smart aleck with shooting for the answer but I hate that question. It is like asking intended use for an automobile.
Exactly.With all due respect, the question is not only fair and valid, it's essential. Guns are for shooting like automobiles are for driving. If someone with five kids asked what kind of automobile to buy, would you suggest a Honda Fit? After all, automobiles are for driving, right?
What is "all around shooting"? Sure, guns are made for shooting, but shooting what? Plinking? Practical shooting competition? Three-gun competition? Varminting? Small game hunting? Big game hunting? Predator control? Self-defense?
Without knowing the intended use (or uses), it's really an exercise in futility trying to recommend a firearm. The odds are about 90:10 that anything anybody suggests will be wrong for what the questioner actually plans or hopes to do with the gun.
I had one in 300 BO suppressed (sold it) and have a 10.5" .223 suppressed now. Shooting supersonics, the 300 BO recoiled a tad more, but the noise and concussion was the same.My last range outing I was shooting next to a police officer, really nice guy and had a bag full of nice guns. We were all having great time until he pulled out his SBR in 5.56, and GOOD GOD the blast from that thing literally made me flinch like a puppy in a thunderstorm every time he fired it, which, thankfully, was only a few magazines.
Granted, we were indoors, but that was my first exposure to an AR pistol, and unless I get to shoot one outdoors, I hope it's my last, at least in that caliber. It's deafening.
I'd love to shoot one suppressed in 300 Blackout, though.