It only gets worse lol. Honestly i still at time play with my cars but fuck me 500+ for some dinky plastic intake or 4k for rims then need tires....that 6k BAR and 50 bucks of 9mm seem cheaper.I just spent $500 on ammo and mags. I’m kinda dizzy. This hobby is too expensive
One-upsmanship on your friends. The round looses effectiveness past 300, but bigger number = better.
I don’t think most people who have LPVOs on their gun actually shoot at enough distance to use the holds. They just see the internet trends and think LPVO=600 yard gun
It's cathartic, like hitting golf balls at the driving range.
I agree with you here. I've used the ACOG in the past and it works just fine if you understand its limitations. This is true for any optic and it turns out what works well for someone may not work well for you.
What about one of those Primary Arms prism optics? I've never run one but I hear they're decent.
I've asked people whose opinion I trust on this which military forces are actually fielding the kind of armor this rifle is supposed to defeat en masse. The majority response is, "Nobody. Only the American citizenry has that sort of armor in that quantity." Make of that what you will.
I definitely won't pretend as if I've tried a lot of different companies' remans, but I've shot a lot of remans from Defender Ammo and LAX Ammo. Both are just fine and I was surprised by the consistency I got from Defender. Everything fed in all my pistols and not huge spreads in velocity when I chrono'd them.
I think I can understand this perspective. I've tried a few and I think like many fads in the shooting industry, the market got caught up in the hype and what it produced didn't match what the marketing promised. This is especially true with 1-10X. It has to make too many concessions to be what it claims. I think 1-4X or 1-6X is where users should stay magnification-wise. Even the damn expensive stuff like the Vortex Razor Gen 3, the March F, or the Nightforce ATACR can't escape physics and thus the dogshit performance at 8-10X.
I've run 5.56 out to 400 often enough without any issues. I personally think that's about its limit, even with the Mk 262 killing people much further out. Yes, it can do that, but there's far better cartridges available now in the same platform. But that's just my opinion.
Nobody ever tells you at the outset that the guns are the cheap part if you actually do any shooting...I just spent $500 on ammo and mags. I’m kinda dizzy. This hobby is too expensive
The accessories take up most of the time and brain power.
I have limited quantities of both, which is why I still shoot with irons.
This is strongly dependent on where you live. Where I am, I would be plenty fine with a 4x & a piggyback rmr, but its mostly flatlands covered in dense forests here. I would much prefer an LPVO if I were somewhere like Nevada or Utah, with pretty long sightlines.
I watch Ukraine combat footage occasionally. Most engagements are very close. Engagements beyond 200 yards are practically all suppressing fire. They know the enemy is "somewhere over there' because they're taking fire, but can't see them because they have of some sort of cover, whether natural or man-made. So they just shoot in the general direction of the fire they're receiving while they break contact and/or call in a drone.
I'd like to know if any of the people involved in the NGSW program have watched footage from Ukraine, and realized what a giant mistake they are about to make.
I genuinely can't think of a scenario where 5.56 works at distance. Most game animals are larger than humans. Maybe coyotes? Even that's iffy on whether you can do it humanely past two hundred, depending on barrel length.
Past 150 it's over for deer, and even within 150 it's a bit weak seeing as it's often the minimum caliber to legally shoot deer and similar animals. Some states you can't even use it for deer I'm pretty sure, but a humane kill on a deer is different than just hopefully wounding a guy pretty good if you're able to get a hit. .223 is big among the varmint crowd seeing as you're likely to be burning through ammo, and prairie dogs and other rodents don't care if they're smacked with a .223 or a 6cm.
I'd disagree. I think the plains are the most similar to Ukraine out of anywhere in the US. Ukraine, specifically the Donbass, is nothing but vast open steppe with occasional treeline, and isolated urban/suburban settlements.
