FYI all- I found out today that if your mag runs dry you can just throw a single round in the action about anyway as long as the bullet is facing forward and close the bolt. It works just fine. I was a little concerned you would have to monkey with it to get it to feed once your mag went dry but you do not. Think ill order a scout scope and rings today. This rifle is awesome.

I have been sitting on this idea for a while now but I'm thinking the GSR is maybe the perfect rifle for this...

I had been thinking of picking up a cheap .308 bolt rifle at some point to use with the mcace chamber inserts at some point. no particular reason for me except I like to tinker around and figured it would be a cool thing to do for ~$350. Well after looking at this rifle Im thinking even for a serious TEOTWAWKI rifle it would be good to have a set of the chamber adapters if you are going to roll out with any .308 rifle. but the problem i saw with other bolt rifle is that most required a scope be mounted on the receiver and over the chamber. The setup of the GSR means you can use iron sights or a forward mounted scope and still be able to hold the rifle down and toss single rounds into the chamber without much hassle. this would be cool if one wanted to turn the GSR into a single shot 7.62x39 bolt rifle and save your .308 ammo for more important stuff. It would also allow you to use .32acp as a quiet game getter type setup. .32acp isn't super cheap but 50 rounds of quiet ammo that takes up less space than .308 might be handy at some point.

I had been at the chamber adapters for almost a couple years now and I have done a bit of reading and haven't seen any issues with shooting .308 and/or .32 acp in a .308. From what I read on various onlinf forums the poa ans poi change as can be expected but other than that I haven't seen online speak of any faults to using them. .308 is a heavy round and if one was going to run of the house with only 100 rounds in a TEOTWAWKI world I'm thinking being able to use a another fiarly common type lf ammo every now an then would be a good option to have. A handful of .32acp might keep you from attracting unwanted attention and provide a stew or two without adding too much weight.

Just my thoughts on another reason this rifle on the top of my rifle want list...

I wouldn't do it. You focus on high value steel, yet you'd go on the cheap for a rifle. Doesn't add up for me. Ruger can keep it... You don't need CRF, even for defensive situations. Get a good rifle that you can learn, establish your dope..and rock on.

I would get something more along the lines of a Rem 700 (or clone) and change out the bottom metal to allow use of AICS / AW mags, and a good trigger.

Architect-You get yours scoped yet?

Without side tracking this too much, c products apparently breached a contract with a supplier, lost a lawsuit and had their tooling and supplies seized by the supplier. I never heard of these mags but they struggled with qc issues with their other mags. Larry and Chad have some new business but the name escapes me.