I disagree. I love on a farm we "hunt" squirrels and wild pigs. For the squirrels the forman uses a shotgun. My uncle tried to use a 22 and hit nothing. He has recently and quite successfully moved up to a larger caliber. I don't know if he technically uses an AR-15 but it looks like that sort of gun. AR-15's aren't powerful enough to hunt boar with. You need serious stopping power for that.
Then there is the bigger reason for guns, defense against crazy people. Ive seem people walking through my land at night, it's scary as hell. They are probably idiot teens or drinks. So I like the biggest scariest looking thing ever. Then they will see me and leave. It's worked in the past.
I would guess "reasonable gun control" would distroy both my protection and pest control so I go with no thanks we keep all the guns.
AR-15 can be chambered in .458 socom, 450 bearcat, 300 blackout, 6.8, 6.5, 6.0, 5.56, 1.7 with just swapping parts. No special machining.
How many calibers do you need?
With modification to the mag well you have about a half dozen more choices.
you can feed .223s in a barrel chambered in 5.56 all day long,
but the working psi of the 5.56 exceeds the working psi of the .223 barrel, plus the forced infacement of the 5.56 cause the psi to spike even higher, if I recall +/- 40k psi.
I disagree. I love on a farm we "hunt" squirrels and wild pigs. For the squirrels the forman uses a shotgun. My uncle tried to use a 22 and hit nothing. He has recently and quite successfully moved up to a larger caliber. I don't know if he technically uses an AR-15 but it looks like that sort of gun. AR-15's aren't powerful enough to hunt boar with. You need serious stopping power for that.
Then there is the bigger reason for guns, defense against crazy people. Ive seem people walking through my land at night, it's scary as hell. They are probably idiot teens or drinks. So I like the biggest scariest looking thing ever. Then they will see me and leave. It's worked in the past.
I would guess "reasonable gun control" would distroy both my protection and pest control so I go with no thanks we keep all the guns.
AR-15 can be chambered in .458 socom, 450 bearcat, 300 blackout, 6.8, 6.5, 6.0, 5.56, 1.7 with just swapping parts. No special machining. How many calibers do you need?
With modification to the mag well you have about a half dozen more choices.
I mostly whine at others to get rid of the pigs. They could probably answer your question.
Sounds like pork chops delivered. :)
I love making sausage. Takes a while but totally worth it.
AR-15's are 5.56mm or .223 (only difference in those two is head spacing) which is nothing but a .22 caliber moving at a higher velocity.
Head space and pressure,
you can feed .223s in a barrel chambered in 5.56 all day long,
but the working psi of the 5.56 exceeds the working psi of the .223 barrel, plus the forced infacement of the 5.56 cause the psi to spike even higher, if I recall +/- 40k psi.
Problem waiting to happen.
Correct. 5.56 NATO runs hotter (higher chamber pressure) than .223 which is loaded to SAAMI specs.
Yes Sir, we speak the same language, and probably both smell like gunpowder.
Keep your powder dry Patriot