What did you guys start out with for a good rifle? What do you guys like consistently shooting at the range the most? From my limited understanding the AR-15 can be ship of thessius'd and is super customizable without being too overwhelming for beginners.
Was looking at this one but I have no idea about the vendor (Palmetto State Armory).
You can easily build a perfectly competent AR for $600 with stuff like PSA lower, upper, buffer, handguard, and a better quality barrel, bcg, and trigger. Retards will sperg about the PSA logo on the lower but it is a non-issue, spending money on high end stripped lowers is of little value because as long as the parts all fit correctly you gain nothing. However, will you find ARs fun? They're alright.
Try different stuff out to determine what you like best. Fun is subjective, my personal niche interest that I find most fun is cowboy style shooting. Quick draw, trick shooting, that kind of stuff. I have friends who are into tacticool or race guns, and we will go out for a day of shooting in a tactical bay or some other place that allows non-fudd shooting and I'm practicing my defensive shooting with my ordinary guns then when I'm done with that it's back to quick draw point shooting, shooting stuff thrown downrange, that kind of thing.
whats the best .380 pocket pistol ruger SCP or the S&W bodyguard 2.0?
Bodyguard 2.0, bodyguard second place, Kahr CW380 third place because it's much nicer than an LCP.
How so? IMO no way. Old, genuine PPs and PPKs chambered in what they are designed for are cool as historic guns but what you usually get in the US when you buy a "PPK" (a .380 PPK/S) isn't even a good toy and certainly hasn't been worth buying as a defensive option in 40 years. If you're going to carry a .380 you're better off carrying something smaller with the same or more capacity, and if you're going to carry something the size of a PPK, you're better off carrying a micro 9 which holds 10+ rounds of a better defensive use cartridge.
380 PPKs are unusually uncomfortable shooters for their size and chambering, it's almost puzzling. I don't find an identically sized mediocre micro 9 like a Hellcat any more uncomfortable than a heavy and significantly less powerful PPK.
I personally want to own less than lethals like flashbangs or stingers that I can fire out of an underbarrel grenade launcher in my lifetime.
For what? Less lethals are worthless for defense and if it's for fun, mortar fireworks are more fun than a flashbang will ever be. Of what use is a flashbang? Deafen someone in a defensive situation that warranted deadly force, rendering them a non threat and no longer warranting continuation of use of force? Or using the flashbang which could be considered deadly force in court on someone when it wasn't warranted so they can ruin your life with a lawsuit over the permanent injury? As a farmer, you will of course know that a lawsuit doesn't even have to be winnable to ruin you, the cost of defense can do that easily.
Just as a nonspecific FYI to all around, Flashbangs aren't like they are in video games. If exposed to a flashbang you
will suffer permanent hearing damage possibly up to deafness, and they can cause permanent vision damage too if you are looking toward the thing when it goes off. There is also a nonzero fragmentation risk.
