I originally thought that an AR-15 would make a good deer rifle, it is short, light and relative accurate over long distances. I changed my mind when I saw a demonstration of the weapon's firepower one day. The target on this occasion was a 55 gallon steel drum filled with water which was use to demonstrate the stopping power the AR-15. When the drum was hit from fifty yards, the bullet made a small hole at the entry point, but on exit it made a hole in the back of the steel drum much bigger than the size of my fist. The original ammunition of the AR-15 had a 5.56mm (0.223 caliber -slightly larger than a 22) bullet propelled by a massive amount of gun powder. It makes a small hole on entry, but the projectile is unstable so it tumbles when it enters flesh and is designed to make a massive exit wound.
Thus I determined that the AR-15 was totally useless as a hunting rifle because it would destroy much of the meat of a targeted animal.
I shudder every time I am reminded that military assault weapons such as the AR-15 can be bought by just about anyone in our country and can thus easily fall in the hands of a homicidal maniacs or home grown terrorists whose objectives are to kill the maximum number of people before they are themselves shot.
So assault weapons have only one practical purpose, killing multiple people in a very short period of time. Why in the world would we want just about anyone in the general public to have access to such powerful weapons.
Uuuuuuuhhh.. NO Duche, just no.. Your reasoning for why the AR-15 is a poor hunting rifle using M855 green tip is wrong. The terminal ballistics of the M855 hitting a target at 300 meters (normal max range of targets on a qualfication range) is penetration of 6-9 inches of tissue (out the back side of most of your terrorists) before it starts to yaw, unless the shot was a high yaw impact, in which case it could turn much more rapidly.
It is the turning internally, causing the large permanent wound channel and fragmentation of the bullet that causes good terminal effects on target. The M855 is NOTORIOUS for through shots on actual tissue. That means that there is no major transfer of kinetic energy to the target, and no 'knockdown' effects on target.
Now granted, this is not the 55-grain M193 bullet that I assume this DUche is talking about. I heard that the original AR-15 had better terminal performance allegedly due to a lower twist rate (1:14), as opposed to the modern M4 (1:7), but still.
5.56 mm with a good Nosler ballistic tip gives good terminal effects on target, at ranges from 100-600 meters, depending on what you are hunting. But I have never, NEVER seen an M4/M16 get the kind of effects this DUche claims he saw in my 18 years in the Army as an INFANTRYMAN, not some USAF CLERK. Maybe you should have practiced shot placement a little more there, DUche.
As GOBUCKS says, 'DUmmies lie, all the time they lie".
