Thread: Why do people frown at using military rifles for hunting?

Originally Posted by Tahr

I don't care what guns people have or use. But one thing worth considering is that black guns are mostly .223 which is a marginal deer calibre if not placed right. The temptation to use an AR's fire power at a running deer must be great (it would be for me too probably), and sadly this might mean multiple non killing shots into a deer with its dander up. Those ones can travel a long way and suffer terribly.

So use what you want, but treat every shot like its your only one. That's what I think.

But hell, I bet they are fun to use on targets and mucking around.

If you mean a ar-15 then yes marginal, if you mean a ar-10(308) where one can simply change it to a 7-08,243,260 by pushing 2 push pins then thats one dead deer! a ar-15 on fallow and sika is completely ethical and I'm happy to shoot deer of that size, on reds however thats where I draw the line on the 223 and thats when mr Sako comes out and asserts his authority