Reader Mike S. writes and suggests a housewarming present:
“Every incoming Afrikaner should be given a Green Card and a rifle. Not a Mauser but a good American-made one. Maybe a Ruger American II. Either in .30-06 or 7×57 (for tradition’s sake).”
Well, if you’re expecting an argument from me against such an action, you haven’t been reading this website for very long.
When I read this, though, I thought that a Ruger “Ranch” model would be more appropriate, given the heritage of our newest (legal) arrivals:
…but in looking at the available chamberings (see link), I find them… unsatisfactory. Certainly not the calibers that our Seffrican imports would be familiar with.
So yes, either .30-06 (American) or .308 Win (which every Seffrican rifleman is familiar with), and therefore either the Hawkeye Compact (.308)
… or the longer-barreled Hawkeye Hunter (.30-06 or .308)
Both are extremely tasty, and I’d take either one in a bushveld minute.
HOWEVER:
Let’s get creative, here, and consider giving them a rifle with which every Seffrican of a certain age is familiar:
Ho yuss… the FN-FAL / DSArms SA-58 — note the “SA” — or, to give the thing its Seffrican name, the R1, along with four spare magazines and a couple hundred rounds of 7.62x51mm.
This choice achieves two objectives:
- gives our new “settlers” (heh heh) a means of self-defense, and
- sets the anti-gun socialists’ collective hair on fire.
Anyone have a problem with this idea?
Afterthought: also, a .22 rifle (e.g. the Ruger 10/22) and a thousand-odd rounds of ammo because it’s a household appliance and every home should have one.
Sounds good to me! The nice thing about these new comers is that I believe they’ll make better effort to assimilate and be self sufficient.
PS can we get some FN FALs in the blue states please?
Yeah, good luck with that.
The Ruger Ranch rifle is not made in a caliber I would consider if I needed a rifle. The closest thing I have to a Ranch that is not an AR is a Remington 7600 in 270. This was my dad’s rifle and when I got it it was missing the magazine. A replacement 4 round magazine was $75 but an aftermarket 10 round can be had for $30. I now have two. I have never fired the rifle in the 16 years I have had it. I prefer my 40 year old bolt action 30-06.
I think the more Seffricans walking around Murca with the guns of their choice the safer our communities will be. Welcome aboard, y’all!
Now hold on just a minute. You know how irritating it is when a company offers a nice incentive for new customers to which you, as an existing customer of many years, have no access? That’s me in this scenario. I, too, would like any or all of those tasty rifles mentioned! Especially since I (it pains me to admit) have no semiauto .22, just a plain old bolt action.
Doesn’t living in the People’s Republic of Illinois give me some kind of refugee status?
Give them Springfields maybe. They are just the US version of the Mauser.
Kim, you may want to consider Ruger’s Scout Rifle offerings. Plenty of 308 options there.
Kim, you may want to consider one of Ruger’s Scout Rifle offerings. Plenty of 308 options there.
I’ve got a savage scout rifle. Pretty good shooter. Course I have some Ruger offerings as well. They shoot pretty good as well
Murcan: Welcome to the US, here’s your rifle, case of ammo, and a case of Bud Light.
Afrikaner: Uhm… that beer is like sex in a canoe, innit?
Murcan: (laughs) We get that a lot. The beer’s not for drinking, it’s for practice with the rifle and ammo.
Considering how ‘welcoming’ the US blaqs have been regarding the Afrikaners showing up here, I’d recommend the R1/FN-FAL but in select fire so’s to be able to beat the ‘joggers’ IF and WHEN they show up w/their Glocks w/Switches.
“Peace Thru Superior Firepower” donchaknow?
Glocks with switches. Yep, as the late, great Colonel Jeff Cooper said, his valedictory to graduates of his Gunsite Academy was “May all your enemies be on full auto.”
It won’t go well for the “joggers” with the “switched on” Glocks