Should had gotten a mini 14. I love mine and it only cost me $598 via CDNN. Bad thing is the good ruger factory magazines are way to expensive, but they are all I will buy for my rifle.
I hit the local informal shooting range yesterday with a friend and my mini-14 gb. Another guy was out their with some kind of M4 clone. I used a 30 round factory mag and shot two magazines without a hitch. During the same period the guy had a stuck wolf case which I kindly removed by dropping a cleaning rod down the barrel 3 times. A few shots later he had a misfire.
If that had been the first tactical shooting school in history I feel that afterwards the firing lines would have been filled up with mini-shooters and ARs would have been relegated to the mattel heap.
Now one could blame the ammo obviously but keep in mind that I was shooting both polymer wolf and zinc plated silver bear through my mini.
So yes the mini 14 is a better gun. Just not good ergonomically with magazine change and wat not but a very reliable gun especially in todays field of shooting where most shooting practice takes place at urban combat ranges.
And teh sr556 is a really good gun. I heard a guy say that after 10000 rounds changing out a 10 dollar buffer tube is hardly a matter worth complaining about.
If that had been the first tactical shooting school in history I feel that afterwards the firing lines would have been filled up with mini-shooters and ARs would have been relegated to the mattel heap.
So one guy with his one AR(That you know nothing about the history of or even make and model) had some problems and you arrive at the above conclusions..... very interesting
Curious about that B.E.A.R system, if the gas block isn't attached to the barrel wonat gas find a way to force itself from between the hole in the barrel and the rail mounted gas block? I am curious to see how that will affect it in the long run. I own a DI system and have no thoughts on changing it, but that new B.E.A.R system does loosen my pocketbook a little....