This is an excellent rifle, but it does have some annoyances.
1: It's fucking loud as hell. Stupid loud. Imagine loud, and then imagine louder.
2: Not too much kick, but it's sharp recoil; like a hammer. They probably should have damped it instead of worrying about the folding stock.
3: It's not quite as fast and intuitive to clean as it could be.
I can get a decent amount of money for it fairly quickly, but there's another question in the air. Depending on what changes in the nation, it could become impossible to replace, or skyrocket in value this coming year. Hell, it could become impossible to sell. It's a tough decision either way.
I'm better with this than I ever was with an AR pattern, even when I was in the military. It's night and day even with iron sights. I'm kind of stuck with iron sights, though, because I'm not going to buy an optic just for the thing to break it (they break the things constantly because of the strange recoil impulse), and I'm not going to buy a $2,000-$3,000 optic that won't break.
So, I've got a rifle I can finally shoot as well as I should be able to, but it'll only ever have iron sights, and I think it's too loud. I wouldn't want to remove the muzzle brake on that thing, either. Lord knows what the recoil would be like, at that point.
My 8mm Mauser has more recoil, but feels like a pressure washer. It doesn't bother me at all; but the SCAR... I'm not sure if I should be shooting that thing until I get my neck fixed, anyway.
What do you guys think?
I think I've got six mags, and I have a couple of cans of really nice Israeli ammunition to go with it, and it's only got about two mags through it, because I got all fucked up not too long after I bought it and never really bothered; so I figure it'll sell pretty strong, especially since it'll be the only one on a shelf in town.
Cheers,
Kennith
1: It's fucking loud as hell. Stupid loud. Imagine loud, and then imagine louder.
2: Not too much kick, but it's sharp recoil; like a hammer. They probably should have damped it instead of worrying about the folding stock.
3: It's not quite as fast and intuitive to clean as it could be.
I can get a decent amount of money for it fairly quickly, but there's another question in the air. Depending on what changes in the nation, it could become impossible to replace, or skyrocket in value this coming year. Hell, it could become impossible to sell. It's a tough decision either way.
I'm better with this than I ever was with an AR pattern, even when I was in the military. It's night and day even with iron sights. I'm kind of stuck with iron sights, though, because I'm not going to buy an optic just for the thing to break it (they break the things constantly because of the strange recoil impulse), and I'm not going to buy a $2,000-$3,000 optic that won't break.
So, I've got a rifle I can finally shoot as well as I should be able to, but it'll only ever have iron sights, and I think it's too loud. I wouldn't want to remove the muzzle brake on that thing, either. Lord knows what the recoil would be like, at that point.
My 8mm Mauser has more recoil, but feels like a pressure washer. It doesn't bother me at all; but the SCAR... I'm not sure if I should be shooting that thing until I get my neck fixed, anyway.
What do you guys think?
I think I've got six mags, and I have a couple of cans of really nice Israeli ammunition to go with it, and it's only got about two mags through it, because I got all fucked up not too long after I bought it and never really bothered; so I figure it'll sell pretty strong, especially since it'll be the only one on a shelf in town.
Cheers,
Kennith