I love these discussions. What a great problem to have... Here are some questions to consider. How you answer those can greatly improve specificity of the information given.
1) What's your price range? (cost of gun and cost of ammo)
2) What are you planning on using this for and what percentage of time? (what are you hunting, where are you hunting it? how do you hunt, how often?)
3) What other guns do you have that play a similar role?
4) Do you reload?
5) Is there any feature that you have to have or are definately against?
1) $500 max, higher if I can get this job I've been after.
2) I mainly want a reliable rifle for SHTF scenario (zombie outbreak <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ). I haven't been hunting before, but having the ability to do so would be a big bonus.
3) No rifles at this point, only one 9mm pistol I recently picked up.
4) No, but I plan to pick up the equipment once I find what suits me.
5) I'm pretty open to anything as long as ammo is easy to get locally (big 5, walmart, gun stores). So far, I'm leaning towards .308, 7.62x39, and .223. I'm trying to keep the rifle compact, around the size of mini-14/saiga (~37" overall).
I'm definitely picking up a .22lr rifle, just wanted to get a battle rifle before they pass more ridiculous laws (hopefully not). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />
Thanks for all the inputs everyone, a lot of things to consider, so little money. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
