Oh yeah, cool dude, fun content. Not something to even consider for life saving equipment

In other news, doing tons of reading on the ar10. Apparently you can put an a5 receiver extension with an ar10 buffer spring and carbine buffer weight on there?

I mean you can adjust your buffer weight on your own, so it’s at least theoretically possible

I'm just sorta torn on the stock. Lots of people use fixed stocks though it doesn't seem that versatile

Been looking at the b5 sopmod because I've used it before and enjoyed it

I would run an LMT-DMR or a magpul PRS probably, but that’s because my use of AR10’s is almost always precision employment

Or a B5 precision stock

I wasn't going to him for advice, I just wanted to see what would happen to chinesium garbage

Always fun to watch
Also dang, those stocks are more expensive than I thought

Fair enough. The commentary isn’t necessarily directed at you, but people who lurk or read these chats later

Ah once you start buying nice glass the stock doesn’t seem like a big deal

Fair enough, this is an educational forum

Yeah, stuff adds up though. I'll likely be doing this like my last rifle, one major part per month or so

Found a long rifle range in my state that looks promising. No membership, no nra bullshit, supposedly pretty laid back, and a mile long full of steel targets

A lot of "meme tier" gear is fine if you have a basic understanding of how each piece is meant to be used and can identify points of failure yourself. If you can just throw money at engineers, then good for you. Buy Crye and pay someone to make custom kydex for you. But for everyone else, there is a lot of value and utility to be gotten from poverty gear if you have a fuckin clue and can address problems yourself. Condor PCs and Alien Gear holsters are perfect examples. Condor has issues with shitty stitching. That's the primary problem with most budget PCs. If you know where and how PCs tend to break, it's very easy to reinforce those areas yourself. A $70 PC and a $5 sewing kit can be completely serviceable. And the difference between having guys with serviceable gear or being by yourself with Gucci shit is a big difference.

Alien gear holsters are much the same. If you have an ounce of mechanical aptitude and experience with service holsters, you can easily identify the failure points of an Alien Gear and fix all of them with a little bit of grease and a small tube of loctite.

I get that the ideal setup is everyone having a BCM build with full Crye kit, but that's fantasy nonsense for desk jockeys. If you want to form cohesive local groups, you have to be able to work with and optimize budget gear.

How would you guys feel about bolt enhancements? I’m looking into being more of a gunsmith and I would love to help people keep their rifles functioning flawlessly. I would be more than happy to start replacing and staking gas keys and cam pins, as well as extractors for those who would like that service.

Any of you bastards built a fal?

@Ballsdini there is a distinct difference between shaming people for their actual budget, which is a complete asshole thing to do, and shaming someone for making *poor decisions*. Alien Gears aren’t any cheaper than quality holsters that *wont* inherently cause you to ND through your thigh. There are quality ceramic plates that cost the same as AR500’s.
And no amount of loctite can fix the hot mess that alien gears are, sorry.
Life saving equipment and safety are not things you can Jerry rig your way through.
I might come off as an asshole, but I would rather that, than coddle peoples feelings and then have that dude put a hollowpoint through his femoral and bleed out because no one told him his holster is sub par.

> @American_AF so you have the RUGER 5.7 and the FN5.7 how do they compare
@TacticalBeard Unfortunately the 503

So thoughts on precision shooting. Ar-10 vs bolt action? I'm looking to dip my toes in a bit but I don't know anything about long range shooting. I was considering building an ar10 but it sounds like it'll never be as accurate as a bolt action rifle.

Bolt action

All day

Granted you can build some ar10 to perform as a bolt action

Idk that just my opinion

For anyone with experience with bolt guns, do you have any recommendations? I understand it seems you can't just assemble one like an ar, they seem like they have to be built / modified by a competent Smith

Remington 700 is what I’ve had

Me too. I sold my .270 but I'm thinking of picking up another 700 in .308

I've read that Remington has seriously dropped their quality control. Would it be better to buy parts and have it built in the Remington 700 style without Remington components?

Oh, that's an idea

Or are there other brands that are higher quality? I don't want to jump in buying parts and make a mistake

Reading decent things about tikka

Yea I was just about to say Tikka lol

But I haven’t heard of Remington having bad QC. I got mine prob 4 years ago now.

I got it off armslist and it performed perfectly

I’ve also have the savage axis I

II*

I loved that thing

@Artemis Get a tikka

or one of the savage chassis bolt actions, theyre good deals. Or the ruger RPR.

I got a savage 10 fcp-sr for like $450 and it shoots sub moa easily with hand loads. But the bolt isnt the smoothest.

That’s all solid advice. Essentially the deal is that you can build an AR10 and bolt gun to be equally accurate, but that AR10 will be 2-3 times as expensive as the bolt gun