There are up's and downs in everything that's out there.
The trade off for this is the fault for that.
This works better, but it doesn't do this,,, this out performs that and this trumps the next.
Its been going on for years.
The only 2 options is dig out your wallet and spend some funds to get the best of the best, """or""" fill in the gap and make the Superior firearm arm of all time.
I'm guessing the 3rd options would be improving the quality of a pre manufactured unit,,, but who has the time for this.
Sure we can do this or that for survival mode, but in all reality, would it not be wizer to be ahead of game by being in this frame before it comes.
A few, not alot of them have been in survil mode their whole life.
They live off the lands with no internet, power, our out side supplies less the ones that their Ma and Pa left them.
They have much less then most humans, yet they have to much stuff at times.
2 of the 4 bush folks I know have old everything.
Its a simple life, yet it has its hard ships to.
Trying to gather and grow food, getting water in the winter, and keeping the fire going...
A few of us bush folks are keen on the keeping the fire going statement,,, it is a mile wide observation looking at the full picture.
Any-who, a wize place to start "might" be aligning ones life style with simple and practical.
It cuts down on fustration and Internet stress.
Bush folk call it "Less is More."
The less we have the more we live.
It takes many years to get there, it does not happen over night.
All of us could go on and on about chunk of junk this or that, but it will consume our time when we should be 2 or 4 steps ahead of this by having the action plan in place.
Maybe that rusty broken wood stock what ever is good enough.
I'm darn near to the point of going back to to old smooth bore black powder since it does everything.
Moose to birds depending what hand full of rocks and gravel I stuff down the barrel.
Purhaps a hand full of each.
Your options are endless.
Spend your funds wize to find what your looking for.
Improve what you have.
Or make your own.
Fustration, stress, and anger will take you off course,,, today might be the beginning at realizing that those 3 words are fake,,, us humans made them up and they are not real unless we believe they are.
Wipes those words out today my friends.
Focus on what we need to do and do it.
Make us fit life, and life fit us.
Pal Don that is always more wrong than right.
PS: Less is More, Plan ahead, and forget those fake 3 words.
Let this become a new fall beginning for you as much as its a refresher for I.