Why I'm here.

I grew up in a somewhat liberal, extremely pacifist household in the equally liberal Washington state. I had some good friends who introduced me to the errors of my upbringing. Guns (any weapons really) were a forbidden topic in my house, so when I was first introduced to shooting sports I fell in love- kind of a forbidden fruit thing I think. My mother still wonders where she went so wrong.
Because of my upbringing, and my poverty in college, I am not your average gun guy. Most “gun people” buy a gun and it stays in the family, passed on through generations when the owner goes to their heavenly reward. I, on the other hand, go through guns like they were work pants. I get bored, or I look too close, or I shoot them till I don’t like them anymore. Over the past five years I have bought, shot, and sold or traded More than 50 firearms. Along the way I have learned TONS, established opinions, and had a great time. Now some will ask, “Why” ? It all comes down to a deal I made with my incredibly beautiful, and patient wife. When we were first engaged we talked about lots of important things in great detail, and one of those was firearms. She knew I liked guns and enjoyed shooting (though at the time neither of us had any idea how big this would become). She was worried about having hundreds of guns strewn everywhere around the house. We set a four gun limit at any given time. Over the years that deal has been revisited and modified, but the rule made me sell a gun before I could get a new one. It also has led me to play with a ton of platforms and a ton of accessories. This review blog is based on the experience gathered along the way. I have also figured out how to self-fund my gun addiction. In our house “gun money” is a separate entity, though I have on occasion used it to spoil my wife. “Gun money” is money made from a gun sale that is used for buying another gun or ammo. (Gun money also magically accumulates when I let my wife pick our sons names). Guns have become a real investment to mee, they hold their value very well. I have made a lot of additional “gun money” along the way. My addiction started with a $550 initial investment and has grown to around $15,000 in guns, and around $8000 in ammo (though little of that is left) in the course of five years.

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The bushmaster orc (5.56)


The optics ready carbine is a civilian car15 and it is the blandest boring incarceration of the ar15 you can buy, mine came with a Burris full field 3-9 scope, and nothing else. Still it was a good price, and I like a project. The first thing I did was install a CAA stock (I like the angle) and a 13 inch aluminum free float fluted and knurled tube hand guard. I don’t like the milspec pistol grip, but I didn’t have much money to mod the gun so I filed off the bump in the middle and stippled it to make it stickier. All in all it shoots fine and is very reliable, but it is not that accurate in general (4moa) but it is fine, but it will probably not stay forever.

THE GOOD:
It works great, no hiccups in the 500 I have put through it.
I love the tube hand guard, it does mean that I have no back up irons, but I still love the feel.
M4 feed ramps are a very good thing.
THE BAD
The full field scope is fine for midrange targets but would make both long and short shots difficult.
It is a “combat” trigger and as such it sucks.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
This gun is only good in the 50-200 yard ranges, it works great there but that does make it rather impractical, I would like to put a vortex strike fire on it.
It is not a very exciting gun. it looks very evil, but there is nothing very exciting about it.




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