I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

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    Wild hogs come in droves and they are extremely skittish. An AR is probably one of the best firearms for hogs if you need to control a population of them, actually. Accuracy is moot at around ~100yds and it’s about putting down as many hogs as you can in the few seconds you have.

    When used properly, AR is an extremely versatile weapon. It’s lightweight, easy to maintain and can be configured for quite a few hunting situations.

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            If you are such a terrible shot that you need to unload an AR15 magazine into a goat or a boar you should not be hunting in the first place.

            That is the bit that I was mainly focused on. My points are still valid, regardless of why you think name-calling is appropriate.

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              That wasn’t name calling. Nimrod was a mighty hunter. My comments were related to your comments about the reasonableness of weapons to hunt things that don’t exist in NZ in the context of a discussion about the reasonableness of weapons in NZ.

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              I think his point is that we don’t have any wild game here that requires a semi-auto AR15 to hunt, because this article is about NZ gun laws here.

              The only use case for semi-auto rifles here in NZ when it comes to hunting is for pest control, and in this case they are allowed (if you have the correct documentation and license).

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                The laws are meant to guard against cases like the Chch massacre. ACT are trying to make the case that AR15s are fine for members of gun clubs apparantly unconcerned by the fact that the Chch shooter was a legally licensed member of a gun club

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      Wild hogs come in droves and they are extremely skittish. An AR is probably one of the best firearms for hogs if you need to control a population of them, actually. Accuracy is moot at around ~100yds and it’s about putting down as many hogs as you can in the few seconds you have.

      LOL. So you just spray into the herd then eh?

      When used properly, AR is an extremely versatile weapon. It’s lightweight, easy to maintain and can be configured for quite a few hunting situations.

      So are fully automatic weapons, so are hand grenades. In fact you could just throw a grenade into that herd of hogs right?

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      Not realizing you weren’t from NZ at first, I sort of thought you were someone who has hallucinations talking about droves of pigs.