Mason wrote:I'm thinking a nice bolt gun in -preferred suitable caliber here- with a 1-4 scope would weigh in around seven, cost about the same and carry a whole lot nicer. That's just experience talking, though.with the scope it's still weighing in right at 10lbs
Likely true, no doubt about it. It may seem a bit odd, but there were a couple of things driving the decision. First, I could just order the parts and not go through the FFL transfer/10 day wait. That also kept me from adding a whole other rifle to the safe, and I had some of the pieces and parts on hand.
The second driver was just that I wanted a multipurpose rifle, as target shooting will be something I do more often by far. I'm still not in love with 223 as a round, so checking out more calibers for the platform is interesting to me. I kind of miss the 7.62x39 I built, and this is a caliber that was designed for the platform instead.