Starvin Larry

The following is a post I copied with permission from a discussion over at the Brushbeater Forum. I thought the author made a lot of good points and they seemed to reflect my own observations I wrote about recently.

What makes a rifle practical and well suited to the tasks you envision for it?

When cogitating on what platform, caliber, optics, etc. one should pursue when attempting to put together a capable, versatile rifle covering a variety of roles – as always, “it depends” is the answer.

For example, from a quantitative analysis perspective, a test with all things being equal will show that a semi auto will be faster for follow ups shots than a bolt gun shooting the same cartridge.

That said, how much faster? Does it make any practical difference? At the cost of what other aspects? These are really the…