AR-15s for hunting?

[M.T. Pockets]

These "Assault" & "Terrorist" rifles that make Zumbo puke are very popular amongst my hunting friends. In fact, I'm about the only guy in my group of friends that does not own one.

They gained popularity when some of my buddies learned they could shoot them nearly as accurate as stock factory bolt rifles in field conditions hunting fox & coyotes. Now they take them prairie dog hunting and say they wouldn't go back to a bolt. They do some trigger work on them, and invest in high end optics and they really love those rifles.

I'm not much of a fox & coyote hunter myself, but if I were, I wouldn't hesitate to buy one and use it.

If I were a rancher in the Dakotas, Montana or Wyoming I'd have one for sure, and I wouldn't care if Zumbo thought less of me or not.

At a small village air strip in Alaska a few years ago I ran into a young native man who carried one in a scabbord on his ATV. He said it was popular among the natives since ammunition was cheap and available, they were handy all around rifles, kind of like a .22 in the lower 48. He said they used it for everything up to caribou.

I'm just a nobody in the middle of nowhere that likes to hunt, and I've run into all kinds of people that hunt with them. Zumbo is supposed to be a world traveling expert and didn't know they were used at all. He's lost credibility with me for his lack of knowlege as much as for his opinion.