Valid point on why. But why not.

You have pointed out weight, and thats about my only issue with a typical AR.

We shot them in competition for MANY years...

And yet I don't take them hunting all that often.

Preferring to use dedicated hunting rigs. None of our hunting rigs have any issues at 200.... thats for sure.

OTOH there is nothing wrong with a fast backup shot. But we prefer to make the first count. And have a really bad habit of not even running the bolt after the first shot because we know that we just killed a deer with the first...
A habit I"m going to HAVE to break before we reside in AK.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....