So on the money with all the comments here. I feel people tend to go so heavy in one direction to make a platform "better" at something when it severely compromises the other uses the rifle could see.

I do wish I had gone with a pinned 14.5 simply because with the new car and vertical mounts every inch counts. I have to keep my stock fully collapsed just to get it out in a timely manner. My rifle was built along the concepts of the Jack carbine for about $800 and I have not found it lacking in anyway for a patrol rifle.

Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.

"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper