Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles AR for hunting, need advice

As true as that is, the original military designs have been refined for hunting because the needs are very different.

Kind of like how race car design helped define the modern automobile and military aircraft helped define the modern passenger aircraft.

Today you see more and more bolt action "AR" rifles intended for target and hunting rather than combat. The bolt versions are no more handy than their auto-load cousins but they do have advantages for their intended use.

Dunno, I"ve killed a lot of stuff with irons on an AR upper....

And todays combat ARs run glass...

Understand that. I've done the same with irons on bolts and levers.

I would feel very undergunned going into combat with a bolt gun and 3 or 4 in a blind mag and perfectly fine taking the same rifle on a big game hunt.

Glass topped or irons, my first choice for combat would be an autoloader with a high-capacity mag. That same rifle and mag would be my last choice for a big game hunt and illegal in many if not most or all states.

Which reminds me - I need to get 5-round mags for my two AR15s and AR10. Might take them hunting one of these days just to piss off the snowflakes.

I couldn't care less what pisses of the snowflakes, or doesn't.

You don't have to hunt with an AR to piss them off though. Hunting with anything does that.

Just figured I'd update this old thread for you guys. I ended up picking up an unfired 6.5 Grendel build on the cheap as the original buyer decided he didn't want it after it was built. So, need to source some ammo/components/dies get a scope mounted, and test it out.