Any fun bolt action rifle can shoot 5.56?

VinnyQC said:
I'm "stuck" with thousands of rounds of 5.56, which I bought to shoot through an AR. We all know how that turned out. My new plan is to purchase a fun little bolt action, but they all seem to shoot only 223.

I could pull out all the bullets and reload them to 223 standard, but it would take quite a while for very little. I could hardly sell the ammos cause I pulled them out of their original packaging to store them into an ammo can, so I know for a fact they're newly-manufactured 5.56, but I could never prove it to anyone else.

Any bolt action can shoot 5.56? Preferably one that's not a piece of junk.
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Can't go wrong with the CZ527, if you can find one. Light, very well made, and very accurate.
 
Having a short barrelled fun bolt action is great, everyone wants to try it, but they are barky. I like the handiness of them and smaller gun case options.
 
randyhub said:
Having a short barrelled fun bolt action is great, everyone wants to try it, but they are barky. I like the handiness of them and smaller gun case options.
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Well 223/5.56 is a barky round to begin with.

But If I was to get a 223/556 I'd look at the Bison as well.
 
Love the Bison design, well thought out BCL has been great, had an ejector problem emailed them had the easily replaced part to my door in 3 days! Love Canadian built parts and local support so much better than dealing with a middleman... You can even do a relatively simple barrel swap for a .300 Blackout if you choose over the 5.56.

I added a bunch of my parts bin AR bits to my Bison as we mostly shoot from a table, but easy to remove all the bits for when we are walking in the woods, but the beefy all metal stock is heavier than cheap feeling tupperware guns.

 
VinnyQC said:
My only bolt action is a 300WSM, and I want something much less powerful to let new shooters try their hands. It was either 17HMR or 223. Still undecided, but if I can get something that'll eat the stash I already have, it would be a plus.

My stash is worth more than the price of either of these rifles (American Ranch or Mossberg MVP). Remember when we could buy 556 for 330$/case of 1000 and there used to be a mail-in rebate? Good times. Looking at my old (2018) receipt that said:
Case of 5000 rounds of 22LR: 300$
Case of 1000 rounds of 556: 330$
Case of 500 rounds of 45ACP: 150$

The 556 had a mail-in rebate for 40 or 50 USD. I stacked them to the ceiling.
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I feel your pain. I still have 15 ~ 18K rounds of 5.56, fortunately most of it is still factory packaged. Still not sure what I am going to do with it all.
 
I bought MRA Renegade receiver sets for 2 of my AR15's, these are 'Fun Bolt Actions' for now. One is .556 and one is x39 - the only way to legally shoot AR's now.
 
Could get a .223 Rem chambered rifle and modify the chamber with a .223 Wylde reamer. Basically just increasing the freebore a bit, i think.
 
Another vote for the BCL Bison. It sounds like BCL could do with the bolt actions what they couldn't with semi-autos.

It feels like a quality rifle, available in 12.5 or 16.5 inch short barrels, 20 round mags. What's not to love?
 
Another vote for the Ranch.
I have the Nodak Spud sights on mine and it's a fun little rifle.
Also recently inletted the magwell to use the BCL 20rnd mags

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FarewellToArms said:
Holy Crap! A pump action AR! I must have been living under a rock, as I have never seen one of these! Thanks for enlightening me!
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I had one for a few years and recently sold it. Maybe it was just my generation of rifle, but the pump was a bit rough, and the extractor sometimes didn't pull the empty shell out, so pumping forward would push a new round in, with an existing casing still in the breach, and just destroy the round.

I tried a Renegade a few months ago, and ran into the same issue.

Choose your poison.
 
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