I believe you have that backwards. In most states, it is legal to hunt deer with .223/5.56. I believe only Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio, New Jersey, Washington, and West Virginia are the only states requiring a larger cartridge. The list is 3 years old, but I don't think 15 or 16 states have changed their laws in that time to disallow .223/5.56
If we talk to our friends like some have responded in this post, it's no wonder the leftie loons think we are gun nuts and won't listen to us. Never understood why we go after our own.
Most of us,. who are beyond informed to very knowledgeable, think of "high powered" in terms of over-bore magnum cartridges with flat trajectories and lot of hitting power.
Most of us,. who are beyond informed to very knowledgeable, think of "high powered" in terms of over-bore magnum cartridges with flat trajectories and lot of hitting power.
So is a .25acp handgun:It's powerful enough to kill people quickly and effectively....
Bill O'Reilly is a know it all blowhard.Bill O'reilly's term of heavy weapons bothers me more when he talks about AR15's.
pro tip: if you start a highly emotional rant and don't have your facts straight, expect to be corrected. if i'm wrong, i would expect my friends to correct me. if i'm showing my ass, I'd expect the correction to be less than gentle.
we do?
the only association i make between "high power" and firearms is the NRA High Power competition. I don't call over-bore magnums or anything else high powered, because there is no value in the term high power. it's meaningless without context (e.g. NRA rulebook defining the term). Otherwise, it sounds more like an elementary school playground conversation. Using a term like Power Factor would be much more meaningful, though that would actually require being informed or knowledgeable
I shoot with simple country folk and have never read the NRA rule book.
If they were "high power", wouldn't we see them in High Power matches?
"High power?" Would you use a 5.56mm AR-15 on an elephant? Or a 600 Nitro Express?But we do. Any High Powered match I've been to is mostly AR15s. Especially in the service rifle category.
Staying supersonic further than 600 yards. Certainly seems high powered to me.
So whether or not you would use it on an elephant makes it high power?
I fond it amusing we chastise the media for using the term when it is a recognised term for which the caliber qualifies in national completions.
If this is wrong then do we blame the media or do we blame ourselves?
Quite some time I was informed basically, the following:
Cartridges like .22RF, are "low power."
Cartridges similar to .30 Carbine, are "intermediate power."
Cartridges like .30-'06, .270, 300 WinMag are "high-power."