Sometimes, you just have to roll up your sleeves and do things yourself.
If you had to assemble one rifle to cover all your intermediate to long-range needs, what would it be? If you asked this question to 100 gun nuts, you’d probably come away with just as many different answers. But there’d be a few common threads running throughout the discussion. Just like if you posed the conundrum regarding choices for putting together your ultimate AR, there’s no right or wrong answer. It’s entirely situationally dependent, but it’s a great mental exercise and worthy of late-night campfire discussions involving brown liquid and burning plant material.
Living in the desert southwest poses different firearm challenges and needs than you might find in New England, where shots longer than 300 yards are going to be in the minority and the availability of common calibers is a more important factor than wringing out the last bit of advantage when it comes to reduced wind drift. Hunting the Rockies while humping an extra couple of pounds of steel and glass means that you’re going to be breathing out of your asshole with greater vigor than if you’d carried the same rifle to a Midwest deer stand. Like we said, it’s situationally dependent, and your choices might be entirely different than your buddy’s.
Running through a personal decision tree, our one rifle had to check the following boxes:
• The ability to hit multiple, torsosized targets out to the maximum distance they can be observed in our backyard, which realistically is 1,100 yards or thereabouts
• Able to hit the kill-zone on deersized animals out to a self-imposed ethical maximum of 700 yards, which equates to an 8-inch diameter circle and a projectile energy of at least 1,000 ft-lb (though more is definitely better)
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THE 'PARTNER FORCE' AK
A First-hand Look at the AKs of Afghan Commandos
THE SCAR WITHOUT FN
The Self-Assembled Modular SCAR 17
WATER DRAGON - THE GREY GHOST 6ARC DRAC
The Latest Long-Range 6ARC Rifle, Developed on the Range
QUARTER CIRCLE 10 YKMF-5
When an MP5 Isn't
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SILENT
Tactical Cowboy by Heritage Manufacturing
FOLDING FRONT-END FIREPOWER
AR-15 Takedown Systems for Compact Capability
CANADA'S NATIONAL FIREARMS ASSOCIATION
The NFA is Leading the Way to Fight for Gun Rights in Canuck Country
BEST OF SHOT SHOW 2022
Bear in mind that just because a product received an award doesn't mean it has our endorsement (by default everything awarded is new), but you'll be seeing more of everything you see here in these pages in upcoming issues.
BFT47 AK
Has Century Managed to Produce a Working American AK? We Put Their Latest Version to the Test
ANGSTADT ARMS MDP-9
Move Over MP5, There's a New Roller Locked Subgun in Town