Are you/will you be a T97 owner?
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considering the AR can't be used for hunting in Canada, stating that the T97 is better is a bit strange. Comparing it to say, a Mini14, would be much more fair. And with that comparison, I'd give it to the Mini hands down. Sure it's not a bullpup, but you're hunting, the small amount of difference in length isn't going to hurt you unless you spend your time crashing through really dense bush and can't manipulate a standard rifle properly.
Sorry I just can't like this thing. It could piss Unicorns and I'd still hate it. It's FUGLY to the extreme, not ergonomic in any way and has far too much design fail for expansion to even qualify as something I'd put in my safe.
But that's me. I'm going to go cuddle my Colt and TRG22 now.
Sorry I just can't like this thing. It could piss Unicorns and I'd still hate it. It's FUGLY to the extreme, not ergonomic in any way and has far too much design fail for expansion to even qualify as something I'd put in my safe.
But that's me. I'm going to go cuddle my Colt and TRG22 now.
Come on... I've owned a Mini 14 and they don't come close to the design of the T97. Even if the T97 was of convensional lay out the operating system is years ahead of the Mini not to mention the T97 is way more accurate. Also in a bush/hunting rifle how inportant is the mag change? I'll take the 10rd Lar mags over a 5rd Mini mag for fun in the bush and the safety is not that bad. Some of use know when to have fun with the fat girl once in a while 
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Come on... I've owned a Mini 14 and they don't come close to the design of the T97. Even if the T97 was of convensional lay out the operating system is years ahead of the Mini not to mention the T97 is way more accurate. Also in a bush/hunting rifle how inportant is the mag change? I'll take the 10rd Lar mags over a 5rd Mini mag for fun in the bush and the safety is not that bad. Some of use know when to have fun with the fat girl once in a while
My thoughts exactly even if your rifle is ergonomically superior i still have 15 rds over your 5
I predict that anyone who takes that approach will find it to be a pretty satisfying gun, and anyone who tries to make it an AR will ultimately be frustrated and get in a lot of pointless arguments on the internet.
Slavex, you keep coming back to this thread to state how much you are against the T97, that it makes me wonder if you are actually on the fence about it?
Someone who doesn't like it would post once or twice and probably keep away from the thread.
You seem to have this bi-polar reaction to it.
Tell us how you really feel.
Someone who doesn't like it would post once or twice and probably keep away from the thread.
You seem to have this bi-polar reaction to it.
Tell us how you really feel.
andrew3081
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And what advantage do you have for 15 rounds? Go through ammo a lot faster?
i really hope no one uses this for hunting, specifically on bigger game. it's in humane to use
a 223 \556 on an animal. if you're going to put it out of it's misery, please be considerate and
use something that'll be an instant kill.
rant over
Come on... I've owned a Mini 14 and they don't come close to the design of the T97. Even if the T97 was of convensional lay out the operating system is years ahead of the Mini not to mention the T97 is way more accurate. Also in a bush/hunting rifle how inportant is the mag change? I'll take the 10rd Lar mags over a 5rd Mini mag for fun in the bush and the safety is not that bad. Some of use know when to have fun with the fat girl once in a while
Slavex mentioned hunting, you shouldn't need more than one to hunt efficiently.
Read above, Slavex said HUNTING not screwing around..
More ammo is always an advantage, its just not always necessary. By your logic we should all have single shot bolt actions.
i really hope no one uses this for hunting, specifically on bigger game. it's in humane to use
a 223 \556 on an animal. if you're going to put it out of it's misery, please be considerate and
use something that'll be an instant kill.
rant over
.223 is more than capable of dropping mid size game such as deer. I agree its not ideal for Elk, Moose, Bear, or similar sized game. Shot placement is the key.
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- Southern ontario
No he never mentioned hunting
lol, no I'm certainly not on the fence about one of these guns. I have actually turned down a free one.
@HeadDamange, recent Mini14s I've played with are a lot more accurate than some of the older ones. As well Ghost999 (Chris) has an old one that is at least 1MOA accurate, if not more so. I will concede the mag capacity point. But I still don't feel that is a good enough reason to own one of these things. Yes the machining is quite nice, but the design is just horrid. But hey, this is coming from a guy who has pierced parts of his body that really shouldn't be pierced....
@HeadDamange, recent Mini14s I've played with are a lot more accurate than some of the older ones. As well Ghost999 (Chris) has an old one that is at least 1MOA accurate, if not more so. I will concede the mag capacity point. But I still don't feel that is a good enough reason to own one of these things. Yes the machining is quite nice, but the design is just horrid. But hey, this is coming from a guy who has pierced parts of his body that really shouldn't be pierced....
andrew3081
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- Vancouver, BC
So you need 15 rounds to shoot at paper all day long?
Will it ruin your shooting if you have to reload more often?
We are not in America where if you use our gun in self defense without being raped by the legal system.
So more rounds essentially means nothing.
And single shot bolt action is totally different from what I'm talking about.
Having single shot semi auto rifle defeats the whole purpose of having the "semi auto" gun.
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