I unloaded 4 AR-15s in the last week.
Without price gouging I made $150-$200 profit on each one (bought 'em or built 'em inexpensively) so a few more of our fellow 2nd amendment supporters are better armed.
Prior to selling the rifles I had planned on buying my first bolt gun in a few months but with some of the newly liberated cash I decided to start refilling the empty space left in my gunsafe.
Since the rifle has not shipped yet I'm pretty sure I could change my order at Grabagun.com so here I am asking what y'all think.
The rifle I have on order is a Remington 700 SPS 24" .308 Win in stainless. Thus far my experience with rifles is a bunch of ARs and an FNAR. In the AR world, chromoly barrels tend to be chromed for durability and resistance to corrosion, so stainless barrels tend to be more accurate as chrome plating rarely improves the accuracy of the barrel. The FNAR (.308) has a chrome bore chromoly barrel but FNH guarantees (and in my example delivered) better than 1 MOA accuracy.
My local club (30 minutes away) is limited to 150 yards but I'm going to join another club with a 600 yard range (when I want to drive an hour and 15 minutes) and I'm hoping to find a place to try out to 1000. Since I already reload .308 I figured it would be a good place to start with an eye towards rebarreling someday to 6.5 Creedmoor which as I understand will fit in a magazine fed Remmy 700 short action.
My only question is whether I would have been better off with a parkerized steel rifle vs the stainless. As I was a moldmaker in my last career I have a bit of metallurgical knowledge so I am aware that, generally speaking, properly heat treated chromoly is stronger and has greater wear resistance than stainless.
I do not see this discussed so I have to ask if (non-stainless) barrels have the bores chromed or not? I assume they do not, but I've been wrong before (just ask my wife).
I can actually save a few $ if I go with the parkerized rifle.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
Joe
Without price gouging I made $150-$200 profit on each one (bought 'em or built 'em inexpensively) so a few more of our fellow 2nd amendment supporters are better armed.
Prior to selling the rifles I had planned on buying my first bolt gun in a few months but with some of the newly liberated cash I decided to start refilling the empty space left in my gunsafe.
Since the rifle has not shipped yet I'm pretty sure I could change my order at Grabagun.com so here I am asking what y'all think.
The rifle I have on order is a Remington 700 SPS 24" .308 Win in stainless. Thus far my experience with rifles is a bunch of ARs and an FNAR. In the AR world, chromoly barrels tend to be chromed for durability and resistance to corrosion, so stainless barrels tend to be more accurate as chrome plating rarely improves the accuracy of the barrel. The FNAR (.308) has a chrome bore chromoly barrel but FNH guarantees (and in my example delivered) better than 1 MOA accuracy.
My local club (30 minutes away) is limited to 150 yards but I'm going to join another club with a 600 yard range (when I want to drive an hour and 15 minutes) and I'm hoping to find a place to try out to 1000. Since I already reload .308 I figured it would be a good place to start with an eye towards rebarreling someday to 6.5 Creedmoor which as I understand will fit in a magazine fed Remmy 700 short action.
My only question is whether I would have been better off with a parkerized steel rifle vs the stainless. As I was a moldmaker in my last career I have a bit of metallurgical knowledge so I am aware that, generally speaking, properly heat treated chromoly is stronger and has greater wear resistance than stainless.
I do not see this discussed so I have to ask if (non-stainless) barrels have the bores chromed or not? I assume they do not, but I've been wrong before (just ask my wife).
I can actually save a few $ if I go with the parkerized rifle.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
Joe
