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Great suggestion. This is AR15.com isn't it? Great pictures of some dandy kills Gary.
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How about a slight modification, and just say "Deer taken with an AR-15 Rifle"? Many states don't allow calibers as small as .223 for deer hunting, so a lot of AR-15 kills would be excluded by limiting it to .223. Many use AR-15's in .458 SOCOM, 6.8 SPC, 6.5 Grendel, .50 Beowulf, etc.
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I can't call up M4Madness to go hunting with me and be sitting up in my stand with my Single Shot NEF Ultra-Slug hunter when he is sitting over there with a loaded to the gills, magazine fed, gas-operated, .458 SOCOM killing machine. -- Buckfever34
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2005-55gr gameking SP1 type rifle. Yes, I know it is tiny. I was sleeping in my stand and just woke up to see three deer trotting out right in front of me. I didn't have a lot of time to think about how big the deer were before I shot. sure is a shame that someone did that to your dog. |
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brought to you by 1shott.
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Yeah,not my proudest moment but I figured if I did one I best do them all. |
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"The world is full of stupid people" The Refreshments, Banditos.
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And this from a guy named "karma" Exactly. Karma's a bitch. |
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Just another كافر
What are you building? The Tsar Bomba of Tannerite? -"cyclone" Friends help you move, REAL friends will call you at |
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Beer me
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Molon Labe!
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"Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against"..."Don't know, what do you got?" Marlon Brando, The Wild One
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great thread Gary!
i'll have to see if i can dig up a pic of the 7 pointer i took with an AR many years ago. i plan on hunting with an AR again this year, acog on top. will post pics if i get a kill. btw, DO NOT feel bad about that tiny deer ya go. i shot one about that big awhile back. easy to pack out of the woods. + quick and easy to butcher myself. + small young deer = Best Deer Meat I've Ever Had. simple equation. i'd do it again in a heart beat |
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is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of "up to and including my life." |
"The world is full of stupid people" The Refreshments, Banditos.
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"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of skunks."
CURRENT SCORE- ARFCOM=1, SKUNKS=0 |
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hey headless that sure is an odd spot for the one point
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Yeah. Usually an extra point in that area comes out as a forked brow tine or just grows out of the main beam. That one would have caused some problems next year. No one who saw him this year before I killed him saw that back point. I got a pretty good look at him opening day and thought he was just a big eight point. Another guy who was bow hunting on opening day of rifle season got a really good look at him at twenty yards and did not see it. |
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So, is a .223 effective for normal chest cavity shots, or is it only good for a head/neck shot?
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Iv shot 2 deer this yr with my 223 AR. Both were right behind the shoulder shots and both dropped like rocks and that was with 55gr V-max handloads. So id say the 223 is good for chest shots.
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Is it because the .223 round fragments, that it is effective on deer size game? Also, I had a friend tell me that the .223/5.56 was designed with the intent to wound only, and not to kill (in combat). I think he is full of shit.
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The key to the 223/5.56 killing power is the fragmentation. When I opened up the first deer I shot this yr the lungs were completely shredded from the V-max fragmentation. All the people I hunt with were in complete shock at what such a small bullet could do. The military bullets fragment aswell but if the velocity isnt high enough they will just make a .22 size hole and wont kill as fast if at all as when they fragment, thus the just designed to wound theory comes into play.
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Do they make 223 cartridges w/55 grain V-max bullets right out of the box?
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Hornaday, Ultramax and Black Hills have them. I bought some Ultramax at Cabelas recently.
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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UUmmmm. Damn nice buck! |
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If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?
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VERY nice buck! Did I mention Nice buck? |
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If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?
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did you take them at the same time, one after the other in quick sucession? |
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about 5 minutes apart.
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Thanks! I'm pretty proud of him. I'll post pics of the euro when I get him back. . |
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If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?
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WOW! What a brute! That is a beautiful buck and a once in a lifetime animal. You should do a shoulder mount as a minimum. If it were me I'd do a pedistal mount. Let us know what he scores! . |
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Awesome job! Tell your son congrats on the great bird. . |
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