I am getting on in years and haven’t shot beyond 100 yards since as a teenager when we’d mortar rounds into grain bins at obscene ranges, not exactly precision shooting. But I keep thinking I want to get into longer range shooting.
There is a progression to developing this skill, and I have a long way to go for sure! Honestly I have no “need” to shoot anything larger than something in the 30cal range, although I do like the 45/70 and would like to play with that for fun. All this is why my immediate concern over the future availability of 50bmg rifles and ammo is stupid.
Don’t have the skill to shoot it well, don’t have a place to shoot it, and don’t have the equipment to reload for it. But I’m concerned that maybe one day I’ll want to, and by then it won’t be available. I preach to folks that acting on fear is often unwise, but I’m having trouble taking my own advice.
Thinking mag-fed bolt gun. Thinking something off the shelf, don’t know enough to provide guidance to a custom builder.
Talk me out of it, or into waiting until I know enough to be dangerous, or suggest something. How’s the secondary market, if I buy new can I expect to get out of it, should I buy something from the secondary market?
Budget? Don’t really have one, and if I did I wouldn’t know how to allocate it to rifle vs glass vs ammo. My inclination is to figure 1/3rd each, but maybe a bit less for glass and ammo. Thinking $10k for the rifle but have wiggle room.
There is a progression to developing this skill, and I have a long way to go for sure! Honestly I have no “need” to shoot anything larger than something in the 30cal range, although I do like the 45/70 and would like to play with that for fun. All this is why my immediate concern over the future availability of 50bmg rifles and ammo is stupid.
Don’t have the skill to shoot it well, don’t have a place to shoot it, and don’t have the equipment to reload for it. But I’m concerned that maybe one day I’ll want to, and by then it won’t be available. I preach to folks that acting on fear is often unwise, but I’m having trouble taking my own advice.
Thinking mag-fed bolt gun. Thinking something off the shelf, don’t know enough to provide guidance to a custom builder.
Talk me out of it, or into waiting until I know enough to be dangerous, or suggest something. How’s the secondary market, if I buy new can I expect to get out of it, should I buy something from the secondary market?
Budget? Don’t really have one, and if I did I wouldn’t know how to allocate it to rifle vs glass vs ammo. My inclination is to figure 1/3rd each, but maybe a bit less for glass and ammo. Thinking $10k for the rifle but have wiggle room.