I could not bond with the .308 DPMS years ago. The heavy profile stainless barrel was actually accurate for that rifle type and cost, but I couldn’t justify keeping an expensive scope on it. The chamber was very sensitive to long round length. AR’s don’t favor stout target loads even with their fast enough twists, seemingly apt to slowly destroy themselves if you try, and the circular forend wasn’t conducive to mounting a good bipod. I believed then that a big, semi auto cycling would tear up a NF, and anyway, it wasn’t so accurate that I’d want to use it in a match.
I actually had two of these because the perceived value was so good, but within a few years both were traded off. I could not think of a roll being filled, besides plinking. I didn’t want that riffle for a defensive emergency. It was far from the top choice when the first shot is the one that counts. As to plinking, a .308 is expensive and audibly taxing, and to my thinking little is or looks worse than chintzy scope on a rifle with an originally important purpose, but that left me no scope option. AR .223’s already covered close range, better. If I was a hog blaster on YouTube, that gun could have been ideal, but I’m not one to wound a bunch of hogs on the run. I’ve held on to odd rifles like a 17 fireball and the 30-378, with more .308’s than anything else, I just couldn’t appreciate those two, which really were good rifles.