Every firearm in existence owes that existence to military purpose. To later claim some calibers are 'military' and others are 'sporting' is silly to me. It is the user that determines the purpose of his tool. Not all guns are weapons, just as not all rocks are weapons. Some rocks are put into walls with mortar and become houses. Some cartridges built nations through bloodshed. Still, it is the nut behind the bolt, not the headstamp on the cartridge, that creates purpose.


I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.