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Posted on 10/22/23 at 5:51 pm
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 10/22/23 at 5:51 pm
New to this stuff but I feel like I’m blindly going down a rabbit hole.

I need the OB to guide me in building a great, lightweight hog gun with suppressor. I’ll have a pulsar thermal (already saving $2,500 for it)

Thanks in advance

Hunting will be running and gunning style.
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
37886 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 5:59 pm to
Just buy a complete rifle and be done. These will range from $750-2000:


Aero Precision M4E1
BCM Recce 14
Daniel Defense DDM4v7
IWI Zion-15
Springfield Saint
S&W M&P 15
LMT Mars
PSA Sabre


ETA:

quote:

Hunting will be running and gunning style.


Can I come?

Also, the money can be better spent on the optics/lights more so than the gun.
This post was edited on 10/22/23 at 6:02 pm
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
11478 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:20 pm to
quote:

Can I come?


Cmon baw

I know, I just want to build one slowly so my wife doesn’t kill me. $150 every month would slip under the radar.
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
11933 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:20 pm to
quote:

Aero Precision M4E1
BCM Recce 14
Daniel Defense DDM4v7
IWI Zion-15
Springfield Saint
S&W M&P 15
LMT Mars
PSA Sabre


Are you just throwing shite at the wall hoping something will stick??? Seriously, those guns are all over the map!

You can't go wrong with LMT. My go to AR is an LMT SPM but I do agree with going with a complete firearm.
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
25240 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:32 pm to
If you just really want to build something, just buy all BCM parts (without the barrel) and put them together.


For the barrel use a Criterion Core.
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
17297 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:37 pm to
I’ve got a Wilson Combat 6.8 SPC and a Thermion 2 XP-50 and it works great. Wilson combat is light weight and accurate so it works way better than my .308 I had the thermal on.
This post was edited on 10/22/23 at 6:38 pm
Posted by reds on reds on reds
Birmingham
Member since Sep 2013
4410 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:39 pm to
What caliber?
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
37886 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:46 pm to
quote:

Are you just throwing shite at the wall hoping something will stick??? Seriously, those guns are all over the map!


they're definitely the more "popular" brands out there.

there also aren't many brands out there that offer "build kits" or stripped lowers. again, here are the more popular brands in regards to those:


Aero Precision/Ballistic Advantage
Anderson Manufacturing
PSA
Spikes Tactical
Geisslle
SOLGW
Expo Arms
Radian

some of those are $300+ and he could just get a built lower for that on Gunbroker.


Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
11478 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:53 pm to
quote:

What caliber?


I think 300 blackout is the board consensus best Hog round.
Posted by reds on reds on reds
Birmingham
Member since Sep 2013
4410 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 6:58 pm to
It’s fine.

.300blk shines with short barrel and subsonic rounds. If this is your first AR I’d steer you towards a .223 over 300blk
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
11478 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 7:00 pm to
quote:

223 over 300blk


The purpose is to kill hogs
Posted by Elblancodiablo
Member since Sep 2023
1829 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 7:15 pm to
Better keep range under, way under, 100yds if you insist on subsonic.

I have no idea why people do this shite.
Posted by lsujunky
Down By The River
Member since Jun 2011
2480 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 7:17 pm to
quote:

6.8 SPC
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
37886 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 7:26 pm to
quote:

I have no idea why people do this shite.


"it's cool when all you can hear is the action cycling."
Posted by Elblancodiablo
Member since Sep 2023
1829 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:05 pm to
quote:

it's cool when all you can hear is the action cycling."

It's not so cool when you wound game because your call of duty cosplay subsonic rounds didn't have enough energy to kill cleanly.
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
11478 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:17 pm to
quote:

It's not so cool when you wound game because your call of duty cosplay subsonic rounds didn't have enough energy to kill cleanly.


They are pests. I don’t care if it’s a “clean” kill. I just want a kill.

I put them to the fricking knife in our traps.
This post was edited on 10/22/23 at 8:27 pm
Posted by MetroAtlantaGatorFan
Member since Jun 2017
15598 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:25 pm to
Just get an IWI Zion 15 for around $800 and call it a day.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
69010 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:25 pm to
.223 is better IMO just because it's cheaper to feed. Pretty quiet with a supressor.
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
11478 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:27 pm to
Is it lethal at 100 to the throat? I aim for the throat or in the ear. Depends on the mood im in.
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
37886 posts
Posted on 10/22/23 at 8:32 pm to
i wasn't implying that i do it.



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