Displaced Texan

Out of your choices listed above, I'd take the Savage. As much as I like the Browning, dollar for dollar, take the Savage. Put the money you save towards a good optic.

That's extremely generous of you, H.E.. Thank you. I may take you up on that. I'll bring the SRS for you to take for a spin as well.

BTW, I really like that MSAR. I've never handled one, but it is on my short list of carbines to try out.

Beat me to it.

H.E., that's freaking brilliant!! Great idea, I'm going to incorporate that one.

You can always pick up an inexpensive stripped lower while you're at it. Squirrel is away, and save it to build on a rainy day.

I thought we were building an AR-15, not having a lesson in acronyms....

I'm trying to figure out why buying a lower is a FML event?

Nice choice. Give us a range report when you get a chance to wring it out.

I don't have any personal experience, but I have a friend who does. I'll get some feedback from him for you. I'm a Pelican guy, myself.

We took a pretty severe beating too, at the hands of Carolina. 33-14, and Romo is pretty much done. Rough day for the NFC East.

Wow. That was painful, 45-14. About as painful as the beating Carolina is about to inflict upon us (the Cowboys).

I have always been a fan of the Savage rifles. Dollar for dollar, I feel they have the best combination of quality, features, and accuracy out of all in its class. I used to have a Savage 111 in 7mmRem Mag I sold off a few years ago, and I regret it. It was a very accurate rifle out of the box. I'd like to have another, this time in .308.

That reminds me, time to switch over to the winter GHB's in the vehicles.

I wanted to show y'all this upper I recently had Specialized Armamant Warehouse do for me. It started life as a Colt 6940 I picked up cheap awhile back. Originally, I had a BattleComp pinned and welded on it, but found I wasn't that fond of the BC. I sent it to SAW so they could do their 6944SE conversion. It's best explained here: http://www.specializedarmament.com/content/skins/flat/14-5_bbl_16_bbl.htm SAW cuts the 16" barrel back, fits their special extended A2 comp, machines it all to fit perfectly, and refinished everything. They even re-stamp the barrel markings to make it look completely factory. Here it is next to one of my factory Colt 6944's that has an A2X comp on it. The SAW upper has an OAL barrel length of 16.031", and the 6944/A2X is 16.2" Don't worry, kids, the SAW upper is on one of my ranch rifles, back in Texas. That fearsome, evil A2 'flash hider' doesn't reside here in the good old Peoples Republic of New Jersey. We wouldn't want it scaring any children or anything. Thanks for letting me show this off. I thought it was a cool piece of machine work.

Yep, good call. Anything from H&K is pretty much an excellent choice. I love my USP .40 Compact. Thinking about the VP9 for my next pistol. Let's see what you got!

Happy Birthday, Marines! Semper Fidelis

I have a huge rabbit colony I my back yard. I told my wife the other day (who is a city girl, and won't eat wild game), I was going to cull the herd with my crossbow, and make her some 'country chicken'. She was NOT amused.

Every now and again, a blind squirrel finds an acorn.

Thanks. All shooters, not safe queens. The first one and the last one are my standard 'ranch rifles', so they get abused a good bit. They see a good bit of duty bouncing around in pickup trucks at the ranch in Tx. Have a few hog kills each too...

Not sure. May put it on my 6921, haven't decided.

Just a wee bit of s Colt guy. Love the PSA upper. Been extremely happy with it.

Just a wee bit of s Colt guy. Love the PSA upper. Been extremely happy with it.

Cleaning day a few weeks ago. Front to back: Colt 6944 w/TA31F ACOG Colt 6944 w/TA01NSN ACOG Colt 6921 w/iron sights Colt LE901w/ Trijicon SRS(placeholder until I buy a 1-6x variable) Colt MT6700 w/PSA Premium 20" upper and TA31RCOA4

I read the OP as he already had bought the ban compliant rifle. Since OP has not bought the rifle yet, I recommend that he does as ChrisJ has suggested above. Best way to go, and likely the least expensive.