As some of you might know my major project for this year is to regain my FAC , it has started well , have joined a club and am enjoying meeting my new clubmates , I did consider going down the stalking route to retrieve my FAC but decided against it because of the cost and paucity of shooting involved , joining a target shooting club means I have a wider choice of firearms available to me when I get my ticket back and I get to enjoy much more shooting , I have a fairly large dream list of firearms already planned in my head but I don't want any that are overtly military looking(black gun's) or so narrowly focused that I won't enjoy them through shooting at the club......any suggestions please.....no elephant calibre's either lol....will be homeloading!
A wooden stock Ruger Mini 14 in 5.56 and a rugger 10/22 in 22lr
A wooden stock Ruger Mini 14 in 5.56 and a Ruger 10/22 in 22LR (damn typos)
I'd recommend going with the black styling. Not because I'm into the military style. I just prefer a lower level of maintainance. Granted woodstocks don't need LOADS of maintainence, but I'm lazy and would prefer a simple synthetic stock as it needs zero maintainence haha. That's the route I'm going down.
10/22 is a given...with a few improvements off course.....not so sure about a mini 14 though...have shot one in straight pull and it wasn't great accuracy wise, fine for figure 11's but I wouldn't feel confident on a Chinese water deer.
S13 when I say "black gun" it's a generic term for ar15/ak47/mp5 type guns....I really like synthetic stocks and would like some guns with them.
I'm very keen on as many of them to be fitted with iron sights as possible , most of them will be scoped but scopes are the weakest link in the chain....never seen anybody manage to break a set of irons but I've seen a fair few broken scopes in my time.
The Current list includes 1 Ruger 10/22 modified with extended mag release and butler creek folding stock.2 CZ 512 in .22wmr most powerful autoloader we can own. 3 CZ 527 carbine in 7.62x39 4 Marlin 1894cs in .38/357 5 Rossi 1892 carbine in .44mag or .45lc not sure yet 6 Anschutz xiv carbine 7 steyr scout in .223 8 steyr elite in .308...................dream on hey! I will be applying for all those slots and it will give me 5 years to fill em......anybody know of any alternatives to these that I've inadvertantley passed over?
(11 April 2014, 15:53)Midnitemo Wrote: [ -> ]The Current list includes 1 Ruger 10/22 modified with extended mag release and butler creek folding stock.2 CZ 512 in .22wmr most powerful autoloader we can own. 3 CZ 527 carbine in 7.62x39 4 Marlin 1894cs in .38/357 5 Rossi 1892 carbine in .44mag or .45lc not sure yet 6 Anschutz xiv carbine 7 steyr scout in .223 8 steyr elite in .308...................dream on hey! I will be applying for all those slots and it will give me 5 years to fill em......anybody know of any alternatives to these that I've inadvertantley passed over?
Nah, bin all that off and get.......
If you're getting FAC then get shotty and slugs.
Fuck, that's much bigger than I anticipated!!
Got a slug mould in my gun box already
Holy shit
I just totted up the price £6.5k without scopes/rings/spare mags/ gun bags and all the other flotsam and jetsam that goes with it.....may need to lose a couple cz527 and steyr do pretty much the same job so one of those may go , same with the marlin and the rossi, more duplication
Does your FAC restrict you to 200 rounds per shooter or 200 rounds per gun?
Theres no set quantity of ammo , you just have to make a decent case as to why you need that quantity of that particular calibre...previously on my fac I was allowed 1500 .22lr 600 .17 hmr 600 .38/357 and 1200 7.62/.308.....had a mosin in 7.62 rimmed and an enfield in 7.62 nato hence double ration of 7.62 would normally be 600