Deadly In The Mountains: Building a SHTF Battle Rifle

0:00 you're never going to see 600 MERS you don't need a $5,000 rifle to take a 50 m shot but you're going to find shit's going to change up here in the mountains boys teams sometimes I think we've been lied to worst case best case is we just have been lying to ourselves I want to talk to you about uh at least my opinion uh thoughts and experiences on uh what may or may not make a good battle rifle why is is this one uh my Preferred Choice it's obviously not a 556 it obviously cost some extra dollars for uh dose tax stamps

0:45 um but there's a reason right so 5.56 is a great round uh it's battle tested and it does really good damage on the human body uh at least psychologically if if not physically but it is a little bit smaller than a 300 and obviously with a 300 I can slow it down um and make it subsonic and that's important to me because then I don't have to worry about shooting indoors without hearing protection I don't have to worry about blowing uh family's eard drums off not least of which is you know if you're out here it can be little a little bit harder depending on your

1:31 distance uh to determine Direction but on that note like how far can you actually see out in the woods I dropped a uh Community post as well as on Instagram to guess a distance for a Target that we're going to shoot at today and I heard everything from 25 M to 400 and I think someone even said 600 m now we got this um orange can set up it's a 2 gallon bucket let's go a and move away and get into position all right so how far away are we going to go where are we going to get holed up from

2:17 and are we going to stay in the same position for a couple shots paying attention to Pace count are you paying attention to time that it's taking for me to get across how far are we now just based off of nothing but time what's interesting is people believe you know that longdistance shooting is the way to go but as we're going to prove as we work up here to this position it's not always the

3:05 case me and rigs we just hiked our asses up all the way to the top of the ridge again and back down having good times time for cold [ __ ] beer tell you that much all right so here we are are in position

4:10 yeah baby [Applause]

5:03 could you see where I was at you can't 50 m away that's all it takes to be deadly when you're out here in the real freaking world right something that you need uh more than anything else uh one could argue and break some things down as far as what you may need and what you may not need like first off like if you go watch any of the the big names like they're all using big dollar products right we're talking you know2 $3,000 rifles and carbin and then $2,000

5:49 freaking Optics and probably $2,000 worth of Hoya gear that that's attached to it so that's the first thing I want to submit to you especially like if you don't have a current battle rifle or if you just want to rethink and retool maybe refit what you currently have and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts team like what is your battle rifle and why so this particular one um base price uh I want to say is 800 retail I bought it for like 350 um used and then obviously we changed out the upper and that brought me to a total of about $800 at the end of the day uh

6:36 different bulk Carrier Group different upper um 800 bucks right uh I think the EOTech what runs $ $500 and obviously the can is a about a grand light totally not needed uh for situations out here uh but you know it was a couple hundred so obviously you got to pay for uh backup iron sights and I have a larger uh charging handle as well and the stock is is different but I may have one two maybe 20 maybe $2,300 invested in this total and compare that to you know

7:24 $2,300 base rifle before you start putting anything else on it so there there's no in in the Southeast unless you're in a valley that has been cleared or it's for crops and it's a farm you're never going to see 600 M like out here in these woods man you're lucky to see guaranteed you're not going to see Jack [ __ ] past 75 M out here like it's just not going to happen between the micro terrain and the vegetation you would have to have to to draw a line between your eyeballs and this

8:10 object would have to be so fine-tuned it's ridiculous even shooting 50 m to get a clear shot I have to move left and right just for 50 m it's only going to compound the further and further and further that you get away so here we are man you know 50 m away that's it 50 m if you're not moving at 50 m you're not going to see anything let that sink in right so again taking it back to this platform like I don't care about shooting 6 700 M

8:59 right especially not for a point target all I care about based off of where I live at is being able to shoot three pushing 400 m right that gets me in those areas where it is a little bit more of a Farmland which there are some up and down my Valley but all I ultimately care about is less than 150 M less than 100 m and in all reality less than 75 M as we've proven here is the case for me right I don't live in a desert I

9:46 don't live in the Mountain West where I have nothing but Crags and and longdistance you know big horn sheep shots you don't need a $55,000 rifle to take a 50 m shot accurately and even more than all of this what I would submit to you is get off the flat Range man things are going to change and you're going to learn more once you can get into some terrain you can still working flat you can learn a lot cuz you got vegetation right don't just go clear an area and call that your

10:33 range set up some targets find an area where have a good backdrop set up some targets know your left and your right lateral limits and experiment shooting uphill shooting downhill shooting through the brush see if you can make those badass flat range shots do some movement have some fun but you're going to find shit's going to change up here in the mountains boys it ain't the same as on them flat lands so I think we're going to pack it up um again team I'm looking forward to

11:19 hearing what you think down in the comments below as we all continue to master our craft and develop our tactical virtue were you right on how far away that we ended up being or were you wrong and if you were wrong do you understand why that you were wrong so let me hear it team I appreciate you guys until then you stay out there you keep grinding and you stay stup team if you want to master your craft develop your Tactical virtue make sure you subscribe to the channel and click that notification Bell so that you can stay up to to date and future content consider becoming a channel member it's going to give you exclusive access to content not available to

12:05 anybody else I appreciate you guys until then you stay out there you keep grinding and you stay St we know you're up there come to my voice