AR purchase time...

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I am a city boy but want to learn to hunt because I want to teach my 2 boys to hunt so I want a good, dependable rifle for that.

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If you aren't buying it for tacticool reasons or stockpiling thousands of rounds I would look into an AR chambered in .308 or 6.8spc there are also the remington AR style rifles chambered in a few popular hunting rounds. The down side to these is that high cap magazines are either hard to find/expensive or non-existent. Plus side is that they would actually be useful for big game hunting while still giving you the ergonomics and dependability of the AR platform.


Remington R25
Remington brought the hunting-rifle prowess, and a leading manufacturer of modular repeating rifles introduced us to the 308 Win platform. What emerged is a masterwork of game-dropping performance and hunt-specific features that will load any camp’s meat pole with unrivaled efficiency – the new Model R-25. An advanced, highly lethal blend of accuracy, fast followups and light recoil chambered for three of today’s most popular short-action hunting cartridges – 243 Win, 7mm-08 Remington and 308 Win. This rifle is everything varmint and predator hunters love about our R-15 in a beefed-up design that easily handles cartridges suitable for big-game hunting

Great advise...thanks.

oldest is 5 and I have a new born.

I have to learn first, then teach the boys

Kids do things like get excited and forget to put on safeties or pointing the muzzle at things they shouldn't...no matter how well you teach them. In that situation a semi-auto that has already put one in that chamber is not a good idea.

I'll bet that the first gun (not counting BB guns) for 80% of the men in the South over the age of 40 was a single shot .410 or 20 gauge.

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I'll bet that the first gun (not counting BB guns) for 80% of the men in the South over the age of 40 was a single shot .410 or 20 gauge.

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I'm 21 and mine was

same here first gun i shot was a crack barrel .410 my first gun was a 870 wingmaster pump .410 killed my first deer with it as well. Got the gun at age 8

ETA: I am 30

I'm 39 and my first gun was a .410 single shot. I got it when I was 8 or 9 and still have it.

Me too. Mine was a break-over, single shot .410ga.

I will say that I haven't necessarily used this strategy with my 5 year old. The first gun he ever shot was a .22 pistol, next was my AR-15. He absolutely loves shooting it. I will hold the gun up and he put it to his shoulder and fires when he's ready. He can empty a 30 round mag in short order.