AICS Magazines and Bolt Action Rifles

[two70]

Oh, I get it. But archery guys were making fun of my 30 yard cross bow shot this season! Said it wasn’t fair, too easy with a crossbow. I say if you are about one ethic kill shot you know will 100% produce a quick clean kill, don’t matter what you use. I can get behind a 500 yard shot. But I agree with you, anyone who does it just to brag, or begins to walk in or otherwise risk only injuring the animal is an animal themselves.

I've had the misfortune to be around archery guys like that too. I once had a couple of them giving me crap for practicing and practicing only at 50+ yards with my compound when I still shot it. They had no understanding that actual 50 yard shots on game are common among western archery hunters or that Fred Bear regularly attempted 60+ yard shots on game with his recurves. Just to be clear I'm not against long range hunting, if someone has the gear and the skill and the only opportunity is 4-5-600 yards I don't have a problem with them taking the shot. What I object to is such a shot being a first resort instead of a last.

 

[teddy12b]

I'm a firm believer that practicing anything from archery, pistol or rifle at longer than expected ranges only makes you a better shot when it's closer. It's a good thing to do for the sake of the animal being hunted.

 

[Gabriel]

That's so old school! Don't you know the proper way to do things today?

1. Walk 10 feet from your truck and setup your shooting bench.
2. Spot an animal 700 yards away.
3. Use a several gadgets to determine distance, elevation, shot angle, wind speed and other meteorological data which are all then plugged into an app on your phone.
4. Load a 10 round magazine in your chassis rifle and then use the output on your app to adjust your scope.
5. Fire several rounds to walk your shots on target.
6. Hope you can actually find the animal once you finally make it over to where it "dropped instantly at the first shot".
7. Brag about the distance of the kill... after adding a couple hundred yards, of course.

Where do I sign up?

 

[Areoflyer09]

Figured with the magwell cut out on the RPR for PMAGs I didn't think it would take AICS mags as well, surprised they don't rock around too much. Never heard of any one using them in the RPRs before. Kinda interesting

I only know about because it was mentioned on the brochure that came with mine. I’ve only used the 10rd pmags. My understanding is the hand loaders like the extra length the AICS mags allow.