Feelings on AR style rifles in camp?

Would you allow someone to use an AR Platform to hunt in your camp?

  • Against the idea

    Votes: 7 4.2%

  • Open minded but no

    Votes: 8 4.8%

  • A little hesitate but go ahead

    Votes: 6 3.6%

  • Go ahead

    Votes: 146 87.4%
  • Total voters
    167
As long as the owner...

is competent with its limitations.

Used to do a deer control hunt out on N. Manitou Island in L. Michiagn, run by the USNPS on it.
The last year I went there was one gent with a AR-15, proper mag and to two deer with it.
 
Knowing there is a guy in the woods with a .300 win mag BAR that never fires just one shot at RUNNING deer scares me far worse than a responsible hunter with an ar or even an ak out there...:rolleyes: Yes I know the man with the BAR and I hope to heaven he is on some private lease and not in the public woods I will hunt...
Brent
 
Why not, i do?!? I use my stag for everything from little whistle pigs all the way up to deer, haven't tried elk but i don't think i will up in my area a .223 is just a little small for the ranges i would shoot. but yeah IMO go ahead.
Bones
 
Bitmap....you are my kinda guy!!:D OK, it's a battle rifle, so what, my M14 with traversing pod and a 20 round mag does just great on a field full of pigs. Get another guy down the field when they run that way and it sounds like Pork Chop Hill all over.

Got no probems with any AR style firearms in a hunting camp.
 
Bitmap....you are my kinda guy!!
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Just trying to stir the pot.

OK, it's a battle rifle, so what, my M14 with traversing pod and a 20 round mag does just great on a field full of pigs. Get another guy down the field when they run that way and it sounds like Pork Chop Hill all over.
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That sounds like fun.

We ought to organize a military rifle hunt - only military style rifles allowed. We could put out a mineral block and call it "the assault lick".
 
I got a Remington 740 30-06 semi-auto. It's basically the same as the AR-10 High power, Semi-Auto, magazine fed but for some reason mine is politacaly correct because it is not military and "scarey looking" Its all hype if it shoots, it's an appropriate calibre it's ok.
 
I'd be far more offended by the term "platform" being used in camp than by the presense of an EBR.
Probably because I'm the lad that brings a semi-auto .308 MBR into camp whenever I go there.
This isn't usually a problem with my camp buddies because they have more EBR's than I do.:eek:

On a serious note. I would check the regulations for caliber & season. I haven't had a problem with rangers, but in some areas the caliber is dependant on the hunting season, and the game being hunted.
Some areas don't want .30 cal semi-autos with 20-round mags in the area during hunting season, so be aware of the local regs. The rangers also know us, from repeatedvisits & know that we won't go hog wild (sorry, bad pun) & that helps too.

I had to hunt feral hogs with a .22rf, because the only game legal at the time was restricted to that caliber. Squirrels with a .308 is a touch excessive anyway.:rolleyes:
 
A .308 bullet is a .308 bullet, regardless of what kind of rifle it comes out of. And FYI there's not "FA or burst" on ARs unless you have $15,000+ to spend on a registered M16 lower. And there are no select-fire .308 lowers in the NFA registry.
 
Hunt as usual, place the shot, make it count... nothing changes, except the weapon launching the bullet.

My family rarelly hunts big game with our "EBRs" (Mini 30s, SKSs, AR-15s) but we almost always have them as backup/brush guns.
The animal will be just as dead.
 
Hey Bitmap i have never shot a wild hog but god d**n you could count me in!!!
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If I ever get $50k saved up for a beltfed I'll let you know. I've shot hogs but never with a beltfed and I didn't mean to imply that I had. I hope nobody is disappointed.
 
What counts is the cartridge, not the platform. I don't want .223s or 7.62x39s in camp as primary mule deer cartridges in this wide-open desert country where shots may be very long and the deer may be running.
 
I don't use AR's, but others are welcome to use whatever they want.

Illegal activity isn't tollerated around me, but others are welcome to use whatever firearm and tactics are legal, as far as I'm concerned.

As a note-

Way back in the mid-1980's a buddy and I invited a friend to go predator calling with us. We both used bolt action rifles, and the friend wanted to use an AR-15.

He started giving us a hard time about our rifles, saying we weren't going to get anything, because he was going to "rat-tat-tat on 'em", and we would only get one shot each before he killed whatever came in.

Long story short, I killed two coyotes in two shots on the first stand. We got nothing in on the 2nd stand, but called another in on the 3rd stand. Tony saw it first, and opened up with his AR.

We were on a mesquite flat, so I stood up to see what was going on. I saw the coyote running at about 250 yards, and heard Tony's rifle click, so his 15 or 20 round mag was empty.

Yep, I dumped the coyote with one shot from my .243. I hit it through the hind quarters, so it was still alive for Tony to finish off.

I know some fellas who hunt with AR's and make every shot count. I've seen them take doubles and triples on a stand, and it's a wonder to see. Personally, I still like bolt action rifles for hunting, and I'll continue to use them because I kill just as many coyotes as anyone else, and sometimes more.

Daryl
 
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The main reason i bought my AR was for coyotes and gophers and that but i did take it out deer hunting and shot a small fawn, just for good jerky meat, but other than that i haven't shot any other big game.
 
Sounds like a BAR but in an AR platform, who cares what it looks like. I personally wouldn't use that platform (ARs are restricted here so I couldn't even if I wanted to).

Indy.
 
Hey Art, lighten up. I believe it was a general question on the style rifle, not cal. Different strokes for different folks. Use come common sense on Cal. vs game. I got no problem with "style" of firearm.
Ken

op STATED .308 CAL AND OTHER FACTORS. Fair enough.
Ken
 
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