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5/12/2013 7:31:18 AM EDT
I enjoy watching Dooms Day Preppers... Why I see it as pure entertainment.. Some of their ideology seems way off base. Although some preppers in my opinion are right on with the possible threats that I believe could happen. I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.

What I am wondering is if someone would be a prepper which AR would you not have for security? Which AR manufacture has the worst image on quality and reliability issues?
5/12/2013 7:17:16 AM EDT
[#1]
Anything from Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne.
5/12/2013 7:32:29 AM EDT
[#2]



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Anything from Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne.


IF THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SPECIAL FORCES THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!!!!!!1



 
5/12/2013 7:36:48 AM EDT
[#3]
Lwrc/dd/larue/noveske/colt but they arent teir 1 because they arent 3 letters
5/12/2013 7:40:25 AM EDT
[#4]
HK416 / MR556 would serve just fine.
5/12/2013 7:40:58 AM EDT
[#5]
in before DPMS.

Fuck it. I'll rep DPMS myself. Thousands of rounds, not a single fuck up.



ETA: bad sling has been replaced with Specter sling.
5/12/2013 7:43:38 AM EDT
[#6]



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I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.



Well, that's something to be proud of.



 
5/12/2013 7:45:42 AM EDT
[#7]
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in before DPMS.

Fuck it. I'll rep DPMS myself. Thousands of rounds, not a single fuck up.

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w389/mdean2011/2012-12-17_18-06-43_639-1_zps655789cb.jpg

ETA: bad sling has been replaced with Specter sling.


What length barrel is that? It just looks right.  
5/12/2013 7:46:01 AM EDT
[#8]
I'll just drop Carbons, and Oracles.

Probably nothing wrong with them, I just wouldn't want one long term.
5/12/2013 7:46:38 AM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
I enjoy watching Dooms Day Preppers... Why I see it as pure entertainment.. Some of their ideology seems way off base. Although some preppers in my opinion are right on with the possible threats that I believe could happen. I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.

What I am wondering is if someone would be a prepper which AR would you not have for security? Which AR manufacture has the worst image on quality and reliability issues?


So when did being prudent equate to being a crazy prepper?
5/12/2013 7:48:02 AM EDT
[#10]
All of them. According to all the media sources, they can fire 45 rounds a second out of 30 round "clips" and leave baseball sized holes in all victims. it's the most powerful cartridge out there, you know.

Too dangerous to have.  
5/12/2013 7:48:03 AM EDT
[#11]
Hey you should be good on water, being as you live under a bridge, TROLL
5/12/2013 7:50:41 AM EDT
[#12]
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in before DPMS.

Fuck it. I'll rep DPMS myself. Thousands of rounds, not a single fuck up.

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w389/mdean2011/2012-12-17_18-06-43_639-1_zps655789cb.jpg

ETA: bad sling has been replaced with Specter sling.


What length barrel is that? It just looks right.  


10.5" DD barrel. Im now saving to get it suppressed
5/12/2013 7:55:27 AM EDT
[#13]
Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!
5/12/2013 7:58:09 AM EDT
[#14]



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Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.

My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!


Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  



 
5/12/2013 8:02:46 AM EDT
[#15]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


I want to join as well, I admire a fella with a well thought out plan.
5/12/2013 8:08:25 AM EDT
[#16]
Polymer lowers.
5/12/2013 8:12:17 AM EDT
[#17]


Anything pink.
5/12/2013 8:14:04 AM EDT
[#18]



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Polymer lowers.


I like my Cavarms stuff and wouldn't have a problem using them.  But they wouldn't be my first choice if I had aluminum lowers available.  



The Plum Crazy, New Frontier, etc. stuff doesn't even get a second or really first look.  



 
5/12/2013 8:14:17 AM EDT
[#19]
One of my biggest gripes about AR's is that some people are led to believe that steel cased ammunition is suitable for serious social purposes. It's not. Nothing wrong with using it for practice though.
5/12/2013 8:14:20 AM EDT
[#20]
Anything that isn't a suppressor host.





ETA:  Mine aren't suppressor hosts.



 
5/12/2013 8:19:29 AM EDT
[#21]
most guns made within the last 15 years are going to hold up to a preppers needs. Even the prepper who has 1000's of rounds still is small contrast to militarys who field weapons for years in training and combat from soldier to soldier. Look at the bolo mausers they symbolize the chinese use up their arms.

If a preppers wetdream explodes tommorow chances are hi his olympic or carbon bushmaster would last while he squeezed off the 2000 rounds he had in inventory.
5/12/2013 8:27:48 AM EDT
[#22]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


He is going to need a trusty Sidekick as well.  I want to be his Sidekick!
5/12/2013 12:21:54 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
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Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


He is going to need a trusty Sidekick as well.  I want to be his Sidekick!


you cant be a sidekick, he is not a hero, he is a benevolent warlord with minions...you should know better than that, you can be a malevolent pet, ....also you cant be on his side if you can shoot good...

I have a DPMS Oracle, its been excellent so far, but if i were to go by the opinions/facts  of most guys here  I should start looking into something a couple tiers above if thinking about a "real" SHTF rifle..not to mention +10 k ammo...in contrast to the measly <1k I have so far...   It's a start..Ill get there sooner or later
5/12/2013 12:25:34 PM EDT
[#24]
If you have a Tier 1 rifle and shoot 10k rounds through it don't you have a worn out Tier 1 rifle about to break?

5/12/2013 12:32:00 PM EDT
[#25]
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If you have a Tier 1 rifle and shoot 10k rounds through it don't you have a worn out Tier 1 rifle about to break need a new barrel soon?




FIFY
5/12/2013 12:44:26 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
Anything from Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne.


FPNI. Plus Oly and any of that plastic shit. Some people like Bushies, I never saw a reason to have one.

Colt, Spike's, DD, RRA, plenty of good choices out there.

5/12/2013 12:48:23 PM EDT
[#27]
I prefer Colt, but there are other good chioces as well.
5/12/2013 12:51:30 PM EDT
[#28]
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I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.



Why not?  You don't have to have enough for the next 100 years, but everyone should have enough on hand to eat/drink for a month at least if the food and water were cut off tomorrow.  
5/12/2013 12:53:24 PM EDT
[#29]
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Anything from Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne.


FPNI. Plus Oly and any of that plastic shit. Some people like Bushies, I never saw a reason to have one.

Colt, Spike's, DD, RRA, plenty of good choices out there.



5/12/2013 12:54:33 PM EDT
[#30]
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Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


He is going to need a trusty Sidekick as well.  I want to be his Sidekick!


you cant be a sidekick, he is not a hero, he is a benevolent warlord with minions...you should know better than that, you can be a malevolent pet, ....also you cant be on his side if you can shoot good...

I have a DPMS Oracle, its been excellent so far, but if i were to go by the opinions/facts  of most guys here  I should start looking into something a couple tiers above if thinking about a "real" SHTF rifle..not to mention +10 k ammo...in contrast to the measly <1k I have so far...   It's a start..Ill get there sooner or later


YOU GUYS START THAT IN-FIGHTING SHIT AND I'M GONNA GET 2 MORE SHOTGUN SHELLS FROM MY FRIEND BIDEN AND THEN THE SHIT WILL REALLY HIT THE FAN!!!
AND I AM A HERO!!!!!
5/12/2013 12:55:44 PM EDT
[#31]
Only Colt.
5/12/2013 1:02:03 PM EDT
[#32]
Stay away from polymers, I heard they attract birdshot.
5/12/2013 1:03:45 PM EDT
[#33]
Quoted:
Quoted:

Quoted:
Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


I want to join as well, I admire a fella with a well thought out plan.


I'm in on this, I'll bring the life jackets and flight helmets for the ultimate in full body armor protection for any Warlord's private army.  I may be able to scare up some football pads and leather chaps too.
5/12/2013 1:05:49 PM EDT
[#34]
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One of my biggest gripes about AR's is that some people are led to believe that steel cased ammunition is suitable for serious social purposes. It's not. Nothing wrong with using it for practice though.


What does the cartridge material have to do with down range ballistics? You must have meant steel jacketed.
5/12/2013 1:08:22 PM EDT
[#35]
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Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!

Are you hiring any minions?  I can send a resume.  
 


He is going to need a trusty Sidekick as well.  I want to be his Sidekick!


you cant be a sidekick, he is not a hero, he is a benevolent warlord with minions...you should know better than that, you can be a malevolent pet, ....also you cant be on his side if you can shoot good...

I have a DPMS Oracle, its been excellent so far, but if i were to go by the opinions/facts  of most guys here  I should start looking into something a couple tiers above if thinking about a "real" SHTF rifle..not to mention +10 k ammo...in contrast to the measly <1k I have so far...   It's a start..Ill get there sooner or later


YOU GUYS START THAT IN-FIGHTING SHIT AND I'M GONNA GET 2 MORE SHOTGUN SHELLS FROM MY FRIEND BIDEN AND THEN THE SHIT WILL REALLY HIT THE FAN!!!
AND I AM A HERO!!!!!


I will bring a Chiappa Triple Threat and three shotgun shells to SC and usurp your throne. All your minions are belong to us.
5/12/2013 1:14:09 PM EDT
[#36]
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One of my biggest gripes about AR's is that some people are led to believe that steel cased ammunition is suitable for serious social purposes. It's not. Nothing wrong with using it for practice though.


What does the cartridge material have to do with down range ballistics? You must have meant steel jacketed.


Don't even bother, there's still dozens of 'em running around this site spewing that nonsense.

5/12/2013 5:46:59 PM EDT
[#37]
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Don't even bother, there's still dozens of 'em running around this site spewing that nonsense.


I bought some Tula ammo yesterday, but I'm a 13er, so you have to expect that.
5/12/2013 5:49:14 PM EDT
[#38]
First post.

BTW, I've never had a hiccup with DPMS uppers that I've had.
5/12/2013 6:04:23 PM EDT
[#39]
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I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.



Why not?  You don't have to have enough for the next 100 years, but everyone should have enough on hand to eat/drink for a month at least if the food and water were cut off tomorrow.  


I agree...it's not hard to acquire supplies to be comfortable for at least a month or two (freeze dried chow, water, stoves w/fuel, firemaking gear, etc).  I choose to be comfortable for much longer but really, one should be a prepper at least for short term emergencies.  Heck, something I think about is that folks lose their jobs everyday...the food may really help with that part of the unemployed situation.

5/12/2013 6:07:13 PM EDT
[#40]
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I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.



Why not?  You don't have to have enough for the next 100 years, but everyone should have enough on hand to eat/drink for a month at least if the food and water were cut off tomorrow.  


I agree...it's not hard to acquire supplies to be comfortable for at least a month or two (freeze dried chow, water, stoves w/fuel, firemaking gear, etc).  I choose to be comfortable for much longer but really, one should be a prepper at least for short term emergencies.  Heck, something I think about is that folks lose their jobs everyday...the food may really help the food part of the unemployed situation.



5/12/2013 6:23:23 PM EDT
[#41]
Quoted:
Joe Biden told me that I only need a double barrel shotgun and two shells.
My plan is to go outside and fire two blasts......after that I will become Warlord of South Carolina........but I will be a Benevolent Warlord!


Ohh!!  Ohh!!!!   Can I be your "Number 2"?

I even have an eyepatch, not to mention experience running numerous evil corporations and managing massive portfolios of ill gotten gains...

5/12/2013 6:27:00 PM EDT
[#42]
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Don't even bother, there's still dozens of 'em running around this site spewing that nonsense.


I bought some Tula ammo yesterday, but I'm a 13er, so you have to expect that.


5/12/2013 6:27:58 PM EDT
[#43]
Nobody's offered up the chart yet?




5/13/2013 12:30:24 AM EDT
[#44]
I stay away from carbon-15 type plastic lowers, and Olympic Arms stuff.
5/14/2013 4:40:01 AM EDT
[#45]
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I am not a prepper and I for sure do not have stock piles of food or water.



Why not?  You don't have to have enough for the next 100 years, but everyone should have enough on hand to eat/drink for a month at least if the food and water were cut off tomorrow.  


I agree...it's not hard to acquire supplies to be comfortable for at least a month or two (freeze dried chow, water, stoves w/fuel, firemaking gear, etc).  I choose to be comfortable for much longer but really, one should be a prepper at least for short term emergencies.  Heck, something I think about is that folks lose their jobs everyday...the food may really help the food part of the unemployed situation.





No need to do that. Just find the nut job prepper in your neighborhood and become good friends. Then when the SHTF blast him with your two shotgun shells from your balcony and what was his is now yours...
5/14/2013 5:21:53 AM EDT
[#46]
It would be better to have a cheap, no bells or whistles but reliable AR that you have fired a few thousand rounds through in formal training and meaningful practice than the most "Tier-1" safe-queen that simply entitles you to a seat at the Cool-Kids table.


5/14/2013 6:14:25 AM EDT
[#47]
The media tells me those bushwacker guns are meant to kill children