A lot of this is just about prejudice and stereotyping.
Some experienced hunter sees some guy hunting with a FAL, and Mr. FAL is a complete idiot, unsafe, unethical, a slob hunter. Mr. Experienced Hunter may be smart about finding deer, but he's not real big on critical thinking, so he applies instant bigotry: "all black-rifle people are alike."
Pretty soon, he'll start agitating for separate bathrooms for black-rifles, and make the black-rifle guys sit in the back of the bus.
OTOH, the Tacticool guys who go deer hunting drunk with the only rifles they own (all black rifles or AK's, usually with rails everywhere, but not even sighted in) as a break from playing videogames and paintball, see a guy with a walnut boltie who's been hunting for 30 years and make a bunch of assumptions about him, too, like "Fudd."
Then some Hmong dude steals a treestand and shoots them all with an SKS, Fudds, paintballers, women, children, whomever, anyone but the deer.
Now my AR seems to get along with the Mini-14 on one side of it and the walnut boltie deer gun on the other side in the safe.
Now why can't people get along as well as guns do?