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General Categories => General Firearm Discussion => Topic started by: y0diggity on November 24, 2011, 12:17:07 AM
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Have you seen this year's BF ad for Cabelas? Out here it has a Bushy with a red-dot sight on top for $599. I'm brand new to the AR thing but just want one for varmint shooting and plinking. Can anyone tell me if this would be a decent rifle for that? I'm really not looking to modify it or drop a bunch of cash into it later. I just want a reliable, pretty accurate rifle for prairie dogs and coyotes.
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It's a pretty good buy for an AR, at least at today's inflated AR prices. Bushmaster has a good product (TX DPS trusts it). Note it does not have front or rear sites.
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It's a pretty good buy for an AR, at least at today's inflated AR prices. Bushmaster has a good product (TX DPS trusts it). Note it does not have front or rear sites.
I saw that, but with the red-dot, wouldn't that be pretty decent? I would also put a 3x9 or something similar on it - just a reasonably priced, reasonably accurate gun for prairie dogs and coyotes and the like.
Here's a clip from the ad, for those who may not have seen it -
(http://nebraskafirearms.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4492.0;attach=1190;image)
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If I remember right from last year the bushmaster has a carbon lower. Something that's a big deal to some but not to others.
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If I remember right from last year the bushmaster has a carbon lower. Something that's a big deal to some but not to others.
Yes it does. In fact, I think that's part of the name. Like a carbon 16 or something. Is there a particular reason that the carbon lower is undesirable?
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Yes it does. In fact, I think that's part of the name. Like a carbon 16 or something. Is there a particular reason that the carbon lower is undesirable?
Don't know about the carbon lower, and my Bushmaster is from before they made those---but about Bushmaster in general, I love mine. It feeds everything (EVERYTHING!), runs all the time (even back when I only cleaned it every 5000 rounds), and is more accurate than I am (note: that isn't hard).
I use mine for shots from 5 yards out to 300. No, it isn't a precision rifle or anything for those who will shoot it at 600+ yards (maybe it could be? never tried) -- but for that 0-300 range, it is spot-on. I used to shoot irons, had a 4x on it for awhile, now I've got a TAC30 1-4x illuminated on it, and I love it. Use it in Multigun, among other things. (I have their Shorty AK version.)
Only thing I ever had to do to it was put anti-walk pins in the trigger assembly.
Bushmaster makes good guns.
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Well, my boy and I are going for it. We're gonna try to get to Cabela's in Sidney. I have no idea what to expect though. Have any of you gone to Cabela's for Black Friday? If so, what was it like? Is there really that huge of a line? Store opens at 5am, what time should we be there? Any input?