Good semi-auto precision rifles in .308 available in Canada

Stag 10 receiver set and your choice of top quality match grade barrel, a nice trigger, and a nice optic and you're pretty much done.
Normally I would suggest a Modern Hunter but i think the Stag 10 built properly will perform as well or better for less money.
Just don't cheap out on your barrel.

If you don't care if it's restricted I used to own a DPMS AR-10 with a 22 inch or maybe it was a 24 inch stainless barrel and I was easily shooting sub moa with various factory and handloads. It really wasn't picky at all, just shot everything well.
 
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Very nice Bartok5 .

Big LMT fan. Where did you pick that up ?



Bartok5 said:
If you don't care about NR status because you only shoot on a range, then I highly recommend a lightly used Lewis Machine and Tool (LMT) Modular Weapon System (MWS). This is the exact same rifle as was adopted by the British Army as the L129 Designated Marksman Rifle during the Afghanistan campaign. LMT Lower Receivers are manufactured alongside KAC and are interchangeable. The M WS beat out all of the contemporary DMR contenders to win that contract. In other words, the British Army has done your homework for you! I have one with both the 20" .308 stainless match barrel and the 20" 6.5 Creedmore stainless match tube. It is a tack-driver, next only to my precision bolt gun (Cadex .308 Guardian Lite). I cannot recommend the LMT MWS highly enough!


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greentips said:
The discussion of semi-auto precision rifle needs to involve the rate of fire.

A 3 shot sub-moa gun achieved by super low rate of fire is meaningless. The idea of a semi-auto precision rifle is to have precision and rapid rate of firing, consistently.

IMHO, the precision of a semi auto needs to be measured by both mechanical precision at a determined rate of fire. It must maintain that accuracy for 10 to 20 rounds at say 20 rounds per minute
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I agree but no cheap factory barrel I've ever seen will produce a consistent group if you start cold and shoot enough to get it hot. I do my testing slow during development then once I have a load I shoot it faster and see if it is consistent. Problem is that doing that usually shows you that you need a new barrel that's been properly stress relieved.
 
SteelCap said:
If I recall correctly FN guarantees 1 MOA. Sold for about 1k ish. But yeah...good luck finding one.
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Like most 1 MOA guarantees it's only as good as the ammo you feed it and the skill of the person on the trigger. I've shot an FNAR before and while it was a very nice rifle that was very comfortable to shot the guy that owned it couldn't find any factory ammo that shot 1 MOA (I don't think he tried that many before getting frustrated and going to handloads) and even after trying to build a load for it he was only able to get a consistent 1.5ish MOA. That's still pretty good accuracy and maybe with some more load development he would have found the magic combination. My point is that even with a 1 MOA guarantee from the factory most people will never see the rifle shoot to it's potential, either because of ammo selection, optics selection, or just poor shooting skills. In case people were wondering it's really hard to shoot a semi auto that well every shot. A semi seems to magnify poor shooting fundamentals and getting 5 rounds in a row to go where you want them is a lot harder than it is with a bolt action.

Plus, all the MOA guarantees I've seen are 3 shot groups and they never tell you what ammo they were using to do their testing.
 
Anyone know where to find a buffer / buffer spring for the Stag?
As I understand it, regular Ar15 stuff is a no-go for them.

Only stuff I can find for a buffer is through Brownells.
maple ridge armoury seems to stock some springs now - or RDSC has kits (out of stock) - but I won’t need the tube or other bits as I’m going UBR
 
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