Vaquero wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:39 pm
One of my AR's goes with me quite a bit.
Especially when traveling out of town, I'm in SC at the moment visiting family. It came with me, with a half dozen Full mags.
RP
I wish I had the freedom to have an AR with me when I felt it was nessecary. Unfortunately, in Canada we have had several rounds of gun control legislation dropped on us. AKs, HKs, FNs, Galil, Aug, etc have been banned for decades. In 2020 ARs, Mini 14/Mini 30, M-14s, CZ-858/Vz-58 and many more were banned. An amendment is in motion now that will ban any centrefire rifle with detachable magazine.
Prior to 2020 ARs were classified as restricted so you could only transport them to and from the range. No hunting or shooting in the back country.
Back to what is a survival rifle anyway. Whatever someone chooses and for whatever reason you need to know how if functions, know how to maintain it and know how to use it in the context that you have decided it is required for.
I have several examples of people that have purchase specific firearms for specific requirements but never used them except for on a static range in good weather. I had a similar experience last year but mine was due to lack of time and not lack of desire to train as I intended to use the firearm. The Canadian Rimfire Precision Series ran a X/22 Competition my area. X/22 is a rimfire competition that incorporates long range PRS style stages out to 300m, short range PRS style stages similar to NRL22, speed steel changes similar to steel challenge, NRA small bore silhouette, 50m and 100m benchrest fired from benches or prone. The match is most suited for 10/22 style rifles. I built a 10/22 for the match. Got it to the range and zeroed the optic and red dot and gathered minimal data from 0 to 300m all from a bench right before the match. Day of the match there were some challenges which impacted my overall score. Most of these challenges could have been easily overcome if I had the time to shoot prone, offhand, from the support side and from some props prior to the match I would have been more successful. The match environment is forgiving, a crappy score is the worst result. In a survival situation whatever that may be may not be forgiving.