{"id":8140,"date":"2023-12-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:08:41","slug":"the-ar15-hunting-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-ar15-hunting-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AR15 HUNTING RIFLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s not just wordplay that led the pro-gun people to refer to the AR15 as a Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR).  Yes, it has almost entirely replaced the shotgun as the heavy artillery in American police patrol cars. Yes, it is well on its way to supplanting the shotgun as America\u2019s most popular home defense long gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is also the predominant gun in the rifle side of America\u2019s first national sport, competitive target shooting. The firing line at the National Championships looks like an AR15 collectors\u2019 convention. The AR15 rules in the action rifle sports sponsored by the United States Practical Shooting Confederation and other organizations. PCC, Pistol-Caliber Carbine, is one of the fastest growing segments of International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) competition, with the AR15 platform by far the most popular there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about hunting? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, preparing for a debate, I scanned the three most popular outdoor sports (hunting and fishing) magazines on the newsstand. That month, they collectively had more ads for AR15 platform rifles than they did for traditionally-styled hunting rifles and shotguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now comes this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authoritative report shows that a very large minority of hunters have taken AR15s afield\u2026a distinct majority is agreeable to using them for hunting\u2026and almost one out of six use an AR15 as their primary <\/em>game harvesting tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the \u201cother side\u201d calls ARs \u201cassault weapons\u201d and \u201cweapons of war,\u201d they are perpetuating a falsehood. Military ordnance experts, originally and now, defined \u201cassault rifles\u201d as having fully automatic (i.e., machine gun) capability, which AR15s do not. Moreover, there is not a nation on earth which issues the semi-automatic AR15 as a primary infantry rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, when \u201cour side\u201d calls the AR15 a Modern Sporting Rifle, they\u2019re telling the truth. In addition to its defensive capability for police and law-abiding citizens alike, the AR15 dominates in target shooting due to its modularity, ruggedness, accuracy and reliability. Those same features have made it, in various calibers, a growingly popular hunting rifle, as the report above authoritatively confirms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not just wordplay that led the pro-gun people to refer to the AR15 as a Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR).  Yes, it has almost entirely replaced the shotgun as the heavy artillery in American police patrol cars. Yes, it is well on its way to supplanting the shotgun as America\u2019s most popular home defense long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}