very true, on that point, however given the topic of hunting for economic necessity, if a person already has a 223, and he is being told to go out and buy one of those walmart specials, in actuality, you can buy a heckuva lot of chicken, pork, and beef, for that. then after you factor in gas, ammo, and such, you'd have to kill several deer, before you're saving money again.
case in point, not that this was my personal situation last year but,
I was hunting with a 9mm, I drove 2.5 miles from my house, walked 15 minutes, shot my deer, dressed it, drove the truck right up to it, threw it in, took it home and 5.5 miles of gas(in that truck we'll say about $1.25 in gas, $.50 ammo, and $12.50 for the tag. I ended up with about 40 pounds of usable meat for about $14.25, or 36 cents a pound(let's see your supermarket match that price). now if I was desperate and that was the only gun I had, I would have done very well that day, but if I had listened to the interweb, and gone out and bought a better suited $400 dollar rifle, I would have spent 414.25 or $10.36 a pound, not hard to beat that price. true, you could say it's an investment that could be used year after year, but you'd have to kill probably 5 deer to equal out. in that time, the money spent on the rifle, could have been invested in clearing debts and after the 5 years, the person would likely be better off financially for not buying it.
just my reasoning, your results may vary.