Combine a solid rifle
with a sling, good
ammo, holographic red
dot sight, and flashlight,
and you have the makings of an excellent
home defense rifle that,
with a little training,
anyone in the family can
operate. The 5.56mm
cartridge is inexpensive
to shoot, has more
Which caliber is best
for the AR-15?
Well, that answer
depends on
what the rifle
will be used
for. The 5.56mm
chambering is
perfect for home defense, target shooting, varmint
hunting, or a very minimum chambering for deer
and pigs. If deer hunting is the main usage for the
rifle, get a 6.5 Grendel or 6.8 SPC. Want to shoot
pigs in the brush? Buy a .458 SOCOM. If you want
to shoot suppressed and have readily available
factory subsonic ammo, go with a .300 Blackout.
range than a .22LR, and
is highly accurate in the AR-15 platform. All of the above make it a nobrainer for target shooting. Want a
rifle just to bring
last eight years seeing great popularity in the AR-15 platform, it
comes as no surprise that it has
slowly made its way into the hunting world. Equipping an AR-15 rifle
with a high quality 3-9x optic, free
float handguard, fluted barrel with
a carbine length gas system, and
chambering of choice for the game
to the range to
punch tiny groups in
paper at 200 yards?
Equip the rifle with a
heavy bull barrel, match
grade trigger, high quality bipod, high magnification
being pursued gives you an excellent hunting rifle.
The AR-15 isn’t just any other
black rifle anymore only bought by
collectors of military style guns. It
has grown in popularity and is now
being purchased by competition
shooters, hunters, ca-
scope with heavy duty mounting
hardware, and
match
There is also a rifle called the AR-10 which is essentially a “beefed-up” version of the AR-15 and
is designed to handle .308 length cartridges. The
possibilities are endless.
sual collectors, and people interested in
grade ammo. This setup gives you
an amazingly accurate target gun.
Some of these guns recoil so little
that you can actually see the target
when hit versus, say, a 30-06 where
you will have to reacquire the target
to see where the bullet hit.
Along with having a huge gun
culture, America is steeped deeply
in the hunting tradition. With the
having a great rifle for defense. If
you are a gun owner and don’t own
an AR-15 style rifle, then go buy
one, you won’t be sorry you did.
Buy lots of mags and ammo too,
because everyone will want to
shoot it. It defines our nation’s gun
culture. It is America’s rifle.