Hmm I’ll look more into that & honestly I was just picking 5.56 because the ammo is cheaper.

I want to stock pile ammo and 308 is like 8$ more a box (pre covid)

Right now, it wouldn't be a bad idea to look into getting into hand loading your ammo

Ammo is hard to come by

@Odb What do you want your rifle to be able to do? Are you looking for a close range gun or a long range gun?

Tbh I probably won’t take it to the range that often. I kind of wanted a Swiss Army knife apocalypse type of weapon. I suppose a 308 would be more suited for that because it can shoot long range. I was just being cheap lol I was thinking about getting a POF Revolution @ThatShadyVandal

If you're looking at an SHTF gun, I don't see you needing to go beyond 300 yards

You're not gonna be able to identify somebody as a potential threat at that distance unless they're shooting at you first

Yeah that’s true. I’m gonna look into building a rifle, see if YouTube can help a guy out.

If you run a 20 inch barrel or even an 18 inch barrel, and you get good, you can hit at like 460 meters accurately with 556

Whatever that happens to be in yards

Roughly 500

If you have a 1 MOA gun, which isn't hard to do with an AR, you're talkin about a 5 inch group at 500

Yeah that would be sweet. I’ll probably keep the 9mm banshee. Just Incase they pass some assault rifle ban in the future atleast I’ll be able to maximize pistol ammo, which would still be available. @ThatShadyVandal thanks for the help homie!

Oh, one other thing since you mentioned 9mm

You can build a 9mm upper for your AR, too

Then that'll give you some flexibility in your calibers

Add me as a friend too, if you want, I'm more than happy to help you out

Fasho

Took scope off put the sites up i like much better. Im newb what does tis button do ?

Thats your last shot bolt hold open

It works like the slide release on a pistol

Thoughts on Pawn shops for firearms?

Good? Bad?

Never been to one before

If you know how to evaluate a gun's condition, I'd say there's nothing wrong with going that route

Considering I don't know how to evaluate I should probably steer clear? 😅

No, you should learn how to evaluate

Otherwise you limit yourself not only in the types of guns that you can buy but you also are not as able to watch the degradation of your own guns

How would I learn to do that?

It's a lot simpler than you might expect

Look down the barrel, make sure the rifling is still sharp, make sure that there's no pitting inside, check for any signs of erosion

Erosion is a gradual wearing off of material, sort of like how ocean waves pounding against a rock will slowly erode the rock

Ah

There are also precision machined go/ no go gages out there

You can use those to verify that the headspace is intact

If that comes out of spec that can be... problematic

Those are the most important ones to look for. Other things to look for are the condition of the locking lugs on the bolt, smoothness of the action, condition of any rivets or screws holding everything together

Alrighty thanks

I'm sure there's more to it that I'm forgetting

And probably a lot that I don't even know