Captain O said:
Oh please. It started in your first post where you spouted off a non-nonsensical diatribe, declared it to have been carved in stone tablets by a flaming bush then threatened to scream heretic at anyone who disagreed with you.
Get over it. It turns out this forum is packed full of people that actually know firearms, how they are used and their limitations. And, as a bonus, we can call out bad logic when we see it. Such as, your silly assertion that because the round is illegal for hunting in some states that means the round isn't actually capable. In order for that to be true you have to believe in the infallibility of law makers. You have to actually believe that the people who write laws know about firearms, their capabilities and their limitations. Go ahead, tell us all with a straight face that you honestly believe that lawmakers are firearms experts and that the firearms laws they pass are always based on sound logic, reason and science... not arbitrary silliness.
Well, go on.
We're waiting.
Didn't think so.
FYI: Several states also limit rifle hunting to straight wall pistol cartridges, so by your prior logic those are the optimal performing deer hunting rounds and everyone using a .30-06 is some sort of heathen. Sound really stupid put that way doesn't it?
The other massive logic flaw you have going is that you are directly equating hunters with bad ethics with the equipment they use. You talk about hunters taking poorly aimed, low quality or out of range shots then expect us to ride along with you in equating this to a failing of the AR-15 when anyone with any field experience knows that low ethics hunters aren't tied to a specific firearm. I've seen poor hunters with custom rifles that cost more than my car. It's not like AR-15s are possessed of some evil spirit of bad hunting that posses any hunter that holds one in their hands. The very notion that a hunter uses an AR-15, ergo they are going to take poorly aimed or out of range shots is laughably asinine.
So yeah, I know you don't want to hear hunting stories and you just want us to take your unqualified word as if from the lips of Jehovah, but at the end of the hunting season when the all the buck tags are filled someone still has to go out and fill the doe tags or the state gets mad. That's me, and my AR. So yes, from the lips to the fingertips, through the keyboard and onto your screen, the word from an actual, as in runs a real deer ranch, professional deer guide. The AR-15 does just fine against deer. I take 20-30 of them every year with one. Not a single one has yet to get back up and complain, nor has a single one of them required a second shot.
So, if what you really just mean to say is, "and so the smackdown begins", yeah, that's what's happening right now.