I continue to be ....
Overwhelmed… thanks. This is becoming quite the study for carbine selection and history, huh?
I replied late last night but it seems it was lost and did not post.... so if it duplicates with this post, please pardon it.
Hansam
RE - Sights:
….In the red/green dot area I'd recommend spending the money and getting an Aimpoint Pro or an Eotech sight but they're pricey …. On the lower cost side are Tru-Glo sights
I looked into the Aim Point red dot scope and watched the videos about them. Impressive. Have no idea on their costs however. I like ‘em.
Any optic I’d spend $$$ for apart from a light or LASER, WILL HAVE TO BE ONE I CAN PREVIEW ON A WEAPON. Period.
I’ve too many issues with vision to get one under advisement or speculation alone …. Unless there is a full refund policy, then if not satisfied. I’d be out only shipping costs if that. Or if it’s cheap, of course.
RE LASER
AGREED. A laser for me is merely a fast acquisition and point of aim in a SD situation.
Every home invasion I’ve endured or later, discovered in this past year occurred, came about in the dark. 3 times idiots attempted to gain entry to my little house in the hood while I was home! First time was 11.0p, another at 930p, and the last was around 815p.
A terrorizing shotgun blast immediately outside my bedroom windows came at 9p or so about a month ago.
2 or 3 other times were found out after the fact by evidence of broken windows or bent and scarred door jams.
I’m not a bad guy at all. I keep entirely to myself. Seldom am I outside, but I’m cordial and obliging when I am. It’s confounding except for the aspect of the new and ongoing influence of drugs. Crack. A dealer has moved into this community and the authorities knowing full well of who and what, do nothing. So far.. and response time is why I now have guns.; 12 minutes to 1 hour…. at last count.
I’ve since installed a monitored alarm system, motion sensitive exterior floods, and of course, some fire arms. The breakins have ceased, gratefully. Yet the emotional fallout remains.
Oil well, everyone has something to be concerned with, and the world about us has surely changed.
RE Truth box
That was enlightening! Not terribly surprising but an eye opener nonetheless.
This is too:
http://www.ballisticsbytheinch.com/40sw.html
I had a discussion with a friend of mine last night coming back from church. He’s a retired Army Colonel. 3 tours in Nam. He said about the two rifles, M16 & M14, the 556 round has trouble in mixed fields. Heavy tall grasses can deflect the projectile and put it off course. In open territories it is stunning how powerful it can be saying he saw a VC regular lose an arm following a dead on hit by one 556 round. Of the two rifles his personal pref was/is the M14.
Not having ever shot the M16 myself I remain in the dark on it’s prowess, yet having shot the M14’s 762 , and BAR, their firepower individually is an awesome thing in FA. In single shot too they bully their way into and thru some really tough stuff… including heavy tall grasses bushes weeds, car doors, home doors, and even some block walls with the 30 06. .
No doubt the 556 can penetrate! None. I recall a 22 slamming it’s way trhu a privacy fence, a coke bottle, and a framed house wall, and an into oven’s bottom drawer covering a distance of about 150 ft.!
Not sure if it was tumbling, but I sure did when it hit my oven! Right onto the floor and then I stumbhled around trying to get my 22, and hide behind the couch I was just laying on. Plinking cans off a privacy fence right across the street from me, with BB & pellet guns somehow became drab enough some bright eyed fool began to use a 22 instead! That was some decades back.
L Kinkenny
I’ll differ…
Point taken. I feel much of this rhetoric surrounds application ultimately. My plans always are to achieve the ‘most bang for the buck’, or as much purpose filling as possible. With self defense being the primary key, and fun coming in a distant second… though one can’t dismiss the latter, it is not the motivation here. In fact my circumstances prevail sufficiently so I much rather prefer to inflict as much damage with any near hit as I can, meaning big bullets are better usually… or that’s my philosophy.
The barrel length on a rifle muddies this perspective for it adds greater speed in the mix and makes smaller slugs far more formidable, and some are way less costly to pitch at paper fools time and again.
“They all hurt” has to be the underlying notion and can’t be discounted. But here again, its application first, fun second and costs of near fruitless ammo disposal, a close third. With that in mind, any of the pistol calibers work. 9, 357 (with it’s dual purpose 38spl), 45 & even the 40 SW, about in that order… IMHO.
I keep thinking, this will come to a coin toss… if 762 isn’t my first pick. If I were getting a FA? I’d have no issue getting it in 556. None. None at all.
That FBI stand in bullet has some severe ballistics and can be had in a good amount of mass with 180gr & 200gr slugs. Even its 135 & 155gr are more than adequate rounds… save for their availability and costs.
Stevie Ray
RE Beretta Storm carbine
I continue to like that piece… yet remain inticed by the abject versatility and options the AR platform announces.
“….or buy the Hi Point and rip off the stock”
Again, SR, the 10 rd mag bugs me a good bit… unless a work around or an after market outfit makes good replacement mags with double the capacity, or more.
Raven
You’re too kind. Thanks much. I’ll be just fine, one way or another.
