Anyone here into firearms?

ImportConvert

What info would you like? I can get/have anything you could imagine on it for the most part. Just ask.

MacCool

We just recently had an indoor range open here in the area. On opening day I was able to pick up a Huldra Tac Elite, 1000 rounds of 9mm, 1000 rounds of XM193, several pmags and even a couple of impossible-to-find magazines for my Walther PPQ in the Pro Shop. I got the last Tactical Elite, but I noted that they had several Korstogs in the rack. That's a brand new Fleet Farm house brand that is essentially a "direct impingement" version of the Huldra (which is a gas piston design). So new, I don't think it's even for sale yet other than their Pro Shop. They also had a few Colts and a couple of BCM's.

Fleet Farm has gone to DD, Noveske, and BCM looking for distribution contracts but when those companies heard the numbers they needed for their 33 stores they just laughed....no way they could come up with those kinds of numbers.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/korstogarms?fref=ts

edub370

well, i'm not really sure yet. this being my first AR, i dont think i plan on doing tons of hunting with it, but if i ever did, i figured i would be better off going with the .300. Hell, maybe i should just buy 2 uppers.

side note: just bought a VLTOR stock and buffer tube for my lower. now i get to look into the fun stuff... UPPERS!

i'm going to purchase a complete upper. so i know i want a free float, and flat top. but not sure about what other characteristics i should be looking for in an upper assembly. can anyone shed some light on some do's and dont's when buying an upper?

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UNKNOWN_370

Let me throw you some 300 blackout facts before you buy two uppers.

1. the 7.62 cal head on the 300 blkout is primed in a 5.56 shell.
2. Due to this 300 blkout fits in 5.56 mags with NO MODIFICATION
3. It runs on the same buffer tension,BCG and firing pin as the 5.56 without modification with subsoonic loads. Supersonic, may or may not? Need a stronger buffer spring? That you might want to research.
4. The only difference between a 5.56 and 300blkout rifle is the barrel.
5. AR platforms are highly modular so barrel changing is easy
6. Every accessory you buy for 5.56 Ar's works on 300 except the barrel

Save some money. You only need a second upper and different mags if you're going to make another AR in 6.5 or 6.8

.308 uses a seperate lower altogether

Hope this helps???

ImportConvert

I recommend staying with the .223/5.56 for your first AR. What are you hunting, deer? I take it you are in KC Missouri? What is the biggest, baddest animal you will hunt?

I currently keep "Brown Tip" (which is a 70gr TSX bullet loaded to 5.56 pressure, you can get it from SSA or ASYM if you don't have access to the .mil load) and know people who hunt with it. It typically expands to about .45-.5" and will penetrate 24-28" in game animals. I'm talking animals like Nilgai antelope, etc. I know a guy who harvests hogs from a helicopter by the hundreds each year, and this round has given him better performance on-target than M80 147gr .308 with a sample size of about 75 animals for each, on the hunt he formed his opinion on.

The other information you got about the 300BLK was also accurate by my understanding, as well. Just the barrel. That's it.