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**Peregrino** · 11-03-2013, 20:39

I think you're overthinking this. The AR platform is inherently accurate. A decent trigger, a decent barrel, and a free-float hand guard and they'll ALL shoot as well as an equivalent bolt gun. You've listed a couple of quality rifles but do you really need to spend that kind of money? If you have access to a custom gun shop why haven't you considered a DPMS 308? I know a number of serious competitors who are using DPMS receivers (or clones) for their custom builds. They are the current standard (Chevy/Ford of the 308 ARs) and easy to work with. They're readily available, relatively inexpensive, and (in the mid/upper grades) as accurate and reliable as anything you've listed. Swap in a Geissele trigger, spend decent money on optics (you'll have to do that with everything else too) and spend the savings on decent ammo. It's not the LaRue (which is a Cadillac rifle) but you're neither paying nor waiting what it'll take to get the LaRue. FWIW - I use one for plinking at 1000yds. It easily holds the 10 ring with LR118 (but only when I get the wind right!). That's decent accuracy in anyone's book and IIRC I've only got about $1400 in the rifle. (The scope costs more than the rifle.)

When you get a chance how about posting a new introduction? Your old one seems to have gotten "misplaced".

11-03-2013, 20:39	#7
Peregrino Quiet Professional Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Occupied Pineland Posts: 4,701	I think you're overthinking this. The AR platform is inherently accurate. A decent trigger, a decent barrel, and a free-float hand guard and they'll ALL shoot as well as an equivalent bolt gun. You've listed a couple of quality rifles but do you really need to spend that kind of money? If you have access to a custom gun shop why haven't you considered a DPMS 308? I know a number of serious competitors who are using DPMS receivers (or clones) for their custom builds. They are the current standard (Chevy/Ford of the 308 ARs) and easy to work with. They're readily available, relatively inexpensive, and (in the mid/upper grades) as accurate and reliable as anything you've listed. Swap in a Geissele trigger, spend decent money on optics (you'll have to do that with everything else too) and spend the savings on decent ammo. It's not the LaRue (which is a Cadillac rifle) but you're neither paying nor waiting what it'll take to get the LaRue. FWIW - I use one for plinking at 1000yds. It easily holds the 10 ring with LR118 (but only when I get the wind right!). That's decent accuracy in anyone's book and IIRC I've only got about $1400 in the rifle. (The scope costs more than the rifle.) When you get a chance how about posting a new introduction? Your old one seems to have gotten "misplaced". __________________ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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