just going by what my grandfather and father taught me as a child. you practice so when you do shoot an animal you put it down the first shot.
And I wholeheartedly agree. In fact I hate people who use tree stands for hunting, that's not hunting, that's fucking waiting.
But regardless - if they choose an AR to hunt with who is to say they can't put iwhatever down with 1 round? Just because the gun may carry more than one round doesn't mean they are using more than one round. It just means that's the gun they like to hunt with.
and i stand by my statement. if you need more than 2 rounds to put an animal down you need to practice more.
Again, I agree, but just because someone carries a gun that 1: doesn't look like a traditional hunting rifle and 2: carries more than 2 rounds, doesn't mean that they are a bad shooter or need 15 rounds to kill a deer.
It simply means that's the rifle they prefer to carry when they go hunting. Maybe they can only afford one rifle and they like to hunt and go target shooting. Maybe they just like the AR style rifle like some people like a shotgun with intricate carvings.
edit: take Daniel, for example. he is one of the best shots i have seen. he openly admits he likes .22's because they are fun. he does not go on and on and on defending why he likes ar's. im sure a semi is handy when you're hunting varmint.
I could care less about an AR particularly. I fall into the "I like guns that are brown" category. I've never owned an AR. The closest thing to an AR I've shot is my old M-16. I don't hunt with an AR, wouldn't buy one, but I guess I'd take one if it was given to me. I prefer old bolt action and lever action rifles. I think they're a lot cooler than any civilian version of a military weapon.
But singling out the AR as a "non-hunting" rifle and making the leap that if they carry 20 rounds the person hunting with one must suck as a hunter and need 20 rounds is a fallacy.
That's all I'm pointing out. If people who hunt and use guns are giving ammunition in the way of "you don't neeeeeeeeeed that" to the anti-gun crowd it's not doing people who don't piddle their pants when they see a gun any favors. My stance on tree stands isn't gun specific, I was taught tree stands were for lazy people who like to wait for things.
I'm a good shot too. I go camping with a lot of friends, former military, former SOF, former cops, etc, and we will plink away at targets with air rifles (where we do this camping is family friendly so we don't go out there blasting). Some of these guys have some bad assed air rifles - competition shit. To keep it simple we keep our targets at 15 - 25 yards and they increase in complexity from willy-nilly "everyone gets a shot" at this target to, as people miss and lose, to "hit the O in "Cola" on this can" type stuff, until there's a winner.
Three years in a row now I've won using a spring action Daisy Red Ryder bb gun from Wal-Mart. The first year I won I fired my final shot one handed, with my arm extended.
