Asked Wifey what she wanted for her birthday, to my surprise she said “I’ve been thinking about an A/R”!
Okay, I know from talking to other gun nuts and LGS owners that stuff like this is at a premium right now. Ammo for .223/5.56 is damn hard to find, and rifles are even worse.
I stopped in at one of my favorites, and they had an Anderson Manufacturing, A/M-15 on display. I’d heard of them, but never shot one. Anyway, he said they had 5 in stock, no idea when more might come, I dropped a down payment so’s they’d hold it for me.
Next evening we went to get it, and they were out of everything except mine!
Pennsylvania allows long gun transfers as gifts, but Wifey wanted to do the paperwork in her name. I wrote out the check for the rifle, 2 extra magazines, a red dot optic, and 100 rounds of 5.56 55 grain ammo. All told it was over 1/3 more $ than the same amount of stuff (minus the optic) cost when I got my Ruger A/R-5.56 4 years ago. I was still happy to get it!
I shot it in for her, but ain’t really had time to ring it out. So far, I think it’s a shooter, but a 1MOA red dot isn’t the best sight for shooting tiny groups!
She’s more concerned about minute of groundhog, or if necessary, minute of bad guy.
Anderson Manufacturing I’ve been feeding mine store bought ammo, but with availability as it is in this current political climate, I’m thinking pretty hard about a set of dies. Any suggestions or thoughts?
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