Thread: Favorite .308 rifle?

308's rock! ...nearly as much as .223's
60% of mine are destined to a new life as baked bean cans and electric shavers...

Originally Posted by grunzter

308's rock! ...nearly as much as .223's
60% of mine are destined to a new life as baked bean cans and electric shavers...
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ok here is a serious question for you...strait up dinky die serious

you know/pretty sure those things of beauty are going to be removed from your posession and we all hope the govt will pay a reasonable amount for them....its going to hurt like stink.....
now IF you KNEW that instead of being melted down and turned into baked bean cans...they were going to go into armory of the NZ armed forces for thier use...would it make the pain a little less????
man we could have the best equiped military in the world...accuracy wise anyway.... I mean the taxpayer will be forking out the $$$$ so why cant they be repurposed where the taxpayers $$$$ would be used anyway...
those that are fit for purpose,issue them,those in obsure calibre store securely for a "just in case" moment and those that are past thier use by date could be stripped of usable bits and buried with dignity....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

IF you KNEW that instead of being melted down and turned into baked bean cans...they were going to go into armory of the NZ armed forces for thier use...would it make the pain a little less????
man we could have the best equiped military in the world...accuracy wise anyway.... I mean the taxpayer will be forking out the $$$$ so why cant they be repurposed where the taxpayers $$$$ would be used anyway...
those that are fit for purpose,issue them,those in obsure calibre store securely for a "just in case" moment and those that are past thier use by date could be stripped of usable bits and buried with dignity....

to quote someone else from another thread......."STOP MAKING SENSE"...........the newly formed govt department called the sensibility authority will send someone round to give you a talking to ......(last part was in jest of course it hasnt been formed......yet)

Originally Posted by scotty

to quote someone else from another thread......."STOP MAKING SENSE"...........the newly formed govt department called the sensibility authority will send someone round to give you a talking to ......(last part was in jest of course it hasnt been formed......yet)

There is now way the touchy feely types would let our firearms go to the military even if that's what they did back in WW2 to help out.
It would be similar to why the cops don't auction off firearms anymore.
Cant be seen to having a firearm they have deemed naughty actually doing what they said it was put in the naughty corner for.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

There is now way the touchy feely types would let our firearms go to the military even if that's what they did back in WW2 to help out.
It would be similar to why the cops don't auction off firearms anymore.
Cant be seen to having a firearm they have deemed naughty actually doing what they said it was put in the naughty corner for.

I can well imagine some NZDF types having a quiet pick through our AR 15's for the best bits, while a plod turns a blind eye.

Originally Posted by grunzter

308's rock! ...nearly as much as .223's
60% of mine are destined to a new life as baked bean cans and electric shavers...
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Nice SLRs there, my dad got one at the end of his army career after carrying Jungle carbine. He hated the jungle carbine but was very impressed with what he called the FN .

My favourite 308 is my Howa. So far everything I've shot with it ended up the right amount of dead .

Originally Posted by paremata

ended up the right amount of dead .

Like that. Not slightly dead, not excessively dead, perfectly dead.