armaborealis
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If you want a range toy then why not get an AR-style rifle in .22 LR?
If you want something in centerfire then I'd consider the following possibilities:
A) Get an AK. Seriously, if you want a centerfire semiauto rifle that you can also to hunt, and you don't plan on messing with it much, with I think you'll be about as happy with an AK. The ammo is cheaper and the round is more suitable for hunting (7.62x39 is pretty similar to 30-30, ballistically speaking). You can get a decent AK for a few hundred bucks less than a comparable AR and ammo is cheaper as well.
B) Get an entry level AR as cheap as you can, maybe used if possible.
C) Pony up around $800-1000 and get an AR that is close to top-shelf, at least in the aspects you care about. Little known trick: if you buy the whole rifle, then you pay the 11% federal Pittman Robertson tax on all of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman-Ro ... ration_Act). If you buy a lower and then a seperate upper then you only pay the 11% on the lower, which is the cheaper half anyways. You can actually "roll your own" AR (buy a finished lower, then slap an upper on it) and save money with minimal time investment. Or you can put one together yourself and get exactly what you want; I put together my first AR over the course of a college football game (3 hours) and I'm not very mechanically minded.
Example thousand dollar rifle which is pretty close to top shelf:
$300 MOE PSA lower (http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.ph ... ition.html)
$500 top-class BCM upper (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/BCM-BFH- ... %20bfh.htm)
$120 bolt carrier group (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/AR-15-Bo ... s-s/34.htm)
$30 MOE handguard (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/AR-15-Ha ... s-s/50.htm)
$70 Daniel Defense iron sights (https://danieldefense.com/components-pa ... sight.html)
Assembly is no more complicated than what you do to field strip for cleaning.
If you want something in centerfire then I'd consider the following possibilities:
A) Get an AK. Seriously, if you want a centerfire semiauto rifle that you can also to hunt, and you don't plan on messing with it much, with I think you'll be about as happy with an AK. The ammo is cheaper and the round is more suitable for hunting (7.62x39 is pretty similar to 30-30, ballistically speaking). You can get a decent AK for a few hundred bucks less than a comparable AR and ammo is cheaper as well.
B) Get an entry level AR as cheap as you can, maybe used if possible.
C) Pony up around $800-1000 and get an AR that is close to top-shelf, at least in the aspects you care about. Little known trick: if you buy the whole rifle, then you pay the 11% federal Pittman Robertson tax on all of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman-Ro ... ration_Act). If you buy a lower and then a seperate upper then you only pay the 11% on the lower, which is the cheaper half anyways. You can actually "roll your own" AR (buy a finished lower, then slap an upper on it) and save money with minimal time investment. Or you can put one together yourself and get exactly what you want; I put together my first AR over the course of a college football game (3 hours) and I'm not very mechanically minded.
Example thousand dollar rifle which is pretty close to top shelf:
$300 MOE PSA lower (http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.ph ... ition.html)
$500 top-class BCM upper (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/BCM-BFH- ... %20bfh.htm)
$120 bolt carrier group (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/AR-15-Bo ... s-s/34.htm)
$30 MOE handguard (http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/AR-15-Ha ... s-s/50.htm)
$70 Daniel Defense iron sights (https://danieldefense.com/components-pa ... sight.html)
Assembly is no more complicated than what you do to field strip for cleaning.
