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Originally Posted by Shiver Me Timbers
Not a bargain but I just purchased (last week) a Colt Socom M4A1 US Govt 5.56 Complete AR15 Lower Receiver and a Bravo Company complete upper with a 20" barrel. I am setting it up for 400 yard target plinking. I don't think I can push it out to 500 yards but will try. I have other AR's with shorter barrels.
I will probably pick up a couple of lowers this month as well. Our state government is fixing to outlaw the sale of scary black guns
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Why wouldn't you be able to shoot out to 500 yards?
I have a mostly stock first-gen Ruger SR-556E 18.5-inch barrel (Geissele SSA trigger) that I use to hunt prairie dogs with, and regularly shoot past 500 yards. Longest shot so far on a p-dog was just under 700 yards, but that I admit was mostly luck; I'm not really that good a rifleman. The rifle will shoot that far if a better shooter was behind it, imo. I had to build the correct ammo, but the thing will shoot less than 1/2 MOA. A Colt should do at least as well, given the right ammo, and a decent trigger.