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11 years 9 months ago - 11 years 9 months ago #17628 by OleCowboy
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Got'um at Cabela's, looked at one today, nice, very nice, comes with Nikon .308 scope ($500) $2495 total + tax (8%) or or about $2700 out the door, will not sell without the scope...saw them today at Cabela's Austin Tx.










(I moved this one into the members area rather than "New Members Introductions" Cowboy. If you want it public, let me know but I figured "members area concealment" for this one in case one of our guys needs a little time to pull his greenage together. The less people know, the more time he's got - theoretically. Thanks for the tip Sir. Sharkey :wave: )
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11 years 9 months ago #17662 by Siscowet
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Cabela's must have a sweetheart deal because of their volume. That has been a tough gun to find. My LGS guy says that .308 AR's have not had the crazy markup the last few months that AR15'/M4 types have had. They have gone up in price, but not to the same extent.

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11 years 9 months ago #17666 by Siscowet
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Just did a cruise on Gun Broker, looks like some reality is starting to come back to gun prices. A lot of RRA LAR 8's Sig 716's and AR10's with no or minimum bids without much time left. Mark up for AR10's is still maybe $300 over regular retail. RRA's are just about retail. Starting to see a little ammo show up, but still overpriced a lot of places.

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11 years 9 months ago #17667 by Sharkey
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Save your ammo money Buddy. I'm hoping we may have a deal coming very soon. Just waiting for the final stuff to come together to see if we'll be pullin the trigger on it all or not...

Hang tough guys.

Otherwise, all the guys with money have just GOT to run out of "gun cash" sooner or later and things will hopefully settle for at least a little before we know the end of this whole gun grab issue.

Prayers, votes, letters and cash at the ready is the only way to live nowadays though till it eases...

I'm just trying my best to sit still and not NEED too much for supplies although it's REALLY tough sometimes...

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11 years 8 months ago #18385 by seven62
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I have had my eye on a Sig 716 Patrol long before The SHTF. I got cold feet when I saw a lot of bad reviews on them. I currently have an AR10a4 with 18" stainless barrel and match trigger I custom ordered probably 10 years ago. It is a great gun. Last year I purchased a AR10 National match for $2000 shipped from hinterland outfitters. I still haven't shot it. It has been a safe queen so far. I purchased my third Ar10 last year. A green furniture A2 to match my 223. I got it for $1300 on gunbroker.
I am just afraid of the Sig 716. For two G's, I would just as soon buy another armalite. Then I know what I have.
I mainly shoot Radway Green surplus through them after breaking them in with some federal Match 168 grain.
i have came across a deal for some Federal Fusion hunting ammo that I can't pass up. $60 bucks a hundred. I figured I would buy 500 just for the price alone.
I'm not sure of the grain, but I'm sure its heavier than 150.
Has anyone had any luck with the Fusion? :drool:

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11 years 8 months ago #18388 by LebbenB
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I have had my eye on a Sig 716 Patrol long before The SHTF. I got cold feet when I saw a lot of bad reviews on them.

Bad reviews from who? While the Sig 556 has received a fair amount of (much deserved) criticism, user reviews of the 516/716 and M400 have been pretty good. A bit of controversy surrounded the 716's BCG. It was a copy of LWRCi's and LWRCi sued Sig over it. As I understand it the suit is over, having been settled out of court.

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11 years 8 months ago #18397 by Siscowet
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There were a fair number of Internet reports about the Sig 516 having difficulty with M-193 ammo. Apparently Sig customer service was telling everyone to use the "Adverse" setting when using anything other than XM855 ammo according to the Internet reports.
I don't know if they were feeding cheapo steel case stuff like Brown Bear ammo or what. That was the prime negative feedback on these two I saw. I was interested in the 716, but at the time I wanted a longer barrel and they had just decided not to make their longer barreled version for some reason, so I lost interest. The concept is a good one, the 516 already has established competition in the HK 416, although they priced that out of existence. I think HK's focus is on military sales, from the looks of it. I would like to see more on the Sig 716.

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11 years 8 months ago #18400 by LebbenB
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I think HK's focus is on military sales, from the looks of it.

Don't get me started on HK's attitude toward private sales...

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11 years 8 months ago #18402 by seven62
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I have a sig 516 swat. It is the one sitting in front of the National match. Back when they first released the 716, It was getting a bad rap all over. Mainly the customer service. I saw a video on you tube of a guy changing out three mags and a Jam after every first round fired.
It got bad reviews from just about all the major gun blogs at the time. AR-15.com was the main one. I'm not downing sig, I just got cold feet at that time.
Does anyone personally have a sig 716 patrol?
Back to the Fusion ammo, anyone had issues with it? :cowboy:

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11 years 8 months ago #18408 by Akai
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:I-agree:

LebbenB wrote:

I have had my eye on a Sig 716 Patrol long before The SHTF. I got cold feet when I saw a lot of bad reviews on them.

Bad reviews from who? While the Sig 556 has received a fair amount of (much deserved) criticism, user reviews of the 516/716 and M400 have been pretty good. A bit of controversy surrounded the 716's BCG. It was a copy of LWRCi's and LWRCi sued Sig over it. As I understand it the suit is over, having been settled out of court.

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