MAN, I've been Jones'ing for another .308 lately...

[mettle]

I sold off my commercial M1a's last year in an effort to drop calibers. You always do stuff and make decisions that, at the moment, make perfect sense for the time in which you live. Or you don't make that good decision and end up with that 'other chick' the morning after...

I've been really wanting a true-to-the-bone GI M-14 lately. If anything, just to buy some good match ammo for it and start plinking at 200, 500 again.

Even though I have really enjoyed the 5.56 caliber, there is, once one has tasted the thrump and clack of an M1A, still that desire for a real battle cartridge...

sigh...

Anyone else starting to lust after the stuff you trimmed off last year during the strange times?

 

[sporter]

Look for an older M1A it will have many GI parts...

I would also recommend an FAL from DSA.

 

[Hook]

Sometimes I wish I had invested in the Springfield SOCOM. I've put all my $$ in AR's. I would have to have a "liquidation" sale, then TRY to find ammo for it.
Oh well, I guess I can still dream.

 

[mettle]

Look for an older M1A it will have many GI parts...

I would also recommend an FAL from DSA.

I remember you posting pics of yours, and your range time. I'd love to shoot one just to see if I would actually enjoy owning, ranging it.

Are the sights something of quality that allows use? Can you mount optics well?

 

[turnandshoot4]

Robinson Amrament is promising a .308 soon.....................................................
Plus the new HK is coming soon. The SCAR Heavy is promised but I won't hold my breath.
And we wait.

I miss a few of the handguns I sold off. I haven't replaced most of the things I sold and now my safe looks empty. Oh well. I get to buy something at Indy in a couple of weeks. That should be fun!

 

[haldir]

I just bought an M!A off this board a month or so ago. Haven't gotten to hit the range yet, but have the ammo and looking forward to it. I used to shoot my Dad's 03 Springfield all the time when I was a kid and there is just something about a bigger cartridge that let's you know you really are shooting something when it goes bang.

 

[mettle]

Robinson Amrament is promising a .308 soon.....................................................
Plus the new HK is coming soon. The SCAR Heavy is promised but I won't hold my breath.
And we wait.

I miss a few of the handguns I sold off. I haven't replaced most of the things I sold and now my safe looks empty. Oh well. I get to buy something at Indy in a couple of weeks. That should be fun!

I don't know that I am going to hold my breath either... buying a .308 again means different mags, ammo, belt equipment...

THE HUMANITY!!!!

One GOOD thing about RA XCR .308, it will be able to use Magpul's SR25 MAGAZINE!!!

 

[turnandshoot4]

Magpul has released those?

WHERE CAN I FIND THEM!!

 

[Hoosier8]

Not an M1A or M14 but I got to shoot my DPMS LR-308-AP4 last weekend for the first time. Very sweet. I really like this rifle.

 

[mettle]

Magpul has released those?

WHERE CAN I FIND THEM!!

I don't know that they are out yet. I watched Costa show one on a Milspec Monkey video about the Emags. Check out my Emags thread in the accessories; Tyler34 posted the video there.

 

[turnandshoot4]

Going there now.

 

[sporter]

I remember you posting pics of yours, and your range time. I'd love to shoot one just to see if I would actually enjoy owning, ranging it.

Are the sights something of quality that allows use? Can you mount optics well?

I usually go shoot about every weekend locally.

If you want to make the drive over you are more than welcome to come along and shoot my FAL.

Sights are nice in my opinion. Almost on par with M1/M14 style sights.
Mounting optics reliably is easier with the FAL since the top cover slides on and off and you simply slide on a new railed top cover. The cover track is very tight (not loose like an AK).

As another poster noted the AR .308 platform is nice.

 

[7mmRM]

Another vote for an AR10 type rifle. I have a very sweet 5 digit SA M1A that is loaded with GI parts. Its a fun rifle, but like the AR10 types better.

 

[dbd870]

Actually I have really increased the number of calibers in the last few years. (I think I'm at 24)

 

[huntall50]

I ditched the .223 AR in favor of a .308 rifle. I started wanting the M1A, Socom, AR10 and the PTR91 but ended up learning about the FAL. I sometimes miss the AR but I love the feel of my MBR.

 

[grunt soldier]

i still got my 223's but i had to get one of the ar10's. i went for a pof w/ a 20in mike rock barrel and put a premier on it . its my new baby. a bit heavy but i don't plan on running around w/ it either. its also now wearing a mike rock bipod

 

[mettle]

i still got my 223's but i had to get one of the ar10's. i went for a pof w/ a 20in mike rock barrel and put a premier on it . its my new baby. a bit heavy but i don't plan on running around w/ it either. its also now wearing a mike rock bipod

I'm impressed, and not much impresses me these days. There ain't a rifle on this site that has impressed me so far, not even the class III stuff.

That POF, ..... THAT is a rifle.

 

[turnandshoot4]

i still got my 223's but i had to get one of the ar10's. i went for a pof w/ a 20in mike rock barrel and put a premier on it . its my new baby. a bit heavy but i don't plan on running around w/ it either. its also now wearing a mike rock bipod

What kind of groups can you get with that?

 

[Yamaha]

I like my FAL......lol

 

[tcshooter]

I am with Yamaha!!! Got 3 of them and a SOCOM-16 that the wife dearly loves shooting....nothing like MORE POWER!!!