Hunting with an AR?
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I’ve heard that Aoudad is fine meat, if you have a taste for shoe leather. 
Then again, I’ve met a ton of people that flat out won’t eat deer meat because they’ve heard it is “gamey.”
One of my uncles would absolutely turn his nose up at king mackerel. The fam chartered a fishing guide several years ago and we straight slew the mackerel. We fried it and made fish tacos for a get-together. Recently, I saw the little girl of some friends that were there. “Are you the man that makes the fish tacos? When are you doing that again?”
Another buddy of mine fed me some chili when I stopped by their house one day. “This is pretty good. What’s in it?” He’s very well off and hunts pretty much full time, so it could be just about anything. “Oh, that’s made from a mountain lion I shot recently.”
Some say that feral pigs aren’t worth the trouble of tracking when shot. Others say they’re great.
And, on the other side of the coin, my dad had a 2 year old bull that stepped in a hole and broke his leg. Deemed unrepairable by the vet, dad had the animal butchered. The ground meat was tough. Not dry. Tough.
This is a really long winded way to say that aoudad may be unfit for human consumption, but I’d like to make determination myself.
Then again, I’ve met a ton of people that flat out won’t eat deer meat because they’ve heard it is “gamey.”
One of my uncles would absolutely turn his nose up at king mackerel. The fam chartered a fishing guide several years ago and we straight slew the mackerel. We fried it and made fish tacos for a get-together. Recently, I saw the little girl of some friends that were there. “Are you the man that makes the fish tacos? When are you doing that again?”
Another buddy of mine fed me some chili when I stopped by their house one day. “This is pretty good. What’s in it?” He’s very well off and hunts pretty much full time, so it could be just about anything. “Oh, that’s made from a mountain lion I shot recently.”
Some say that feral pigs aren’t worth the trouble of tracking when shot. Others say they’re great.
And, on the other side of the coin, my dad had a 2 year old bull that stepped in a hole and broke his leg. Deemed unrepairable by the vet, dad had the animal butchered. The ground meat was tough. Not dry. Tough.
This is a really long winded way to say that aoudad may be unfit for human consumption, but I’d like to make determination myself.
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Will you be the man that makes me some aoudad tacos?
I primarily use Subs (handloaded 200 gr Maker Rex) but have also used the 115 grain Lehigh Controlled Chaos (awesome projectile) and the 130 grain Speer TNT.
75 yards for subs and 150 for supers
Single song dog. Shot her walking toward us. Entrance in the chest, exited her on the right behind the ribs. Shot her about 1:15am Ga time.
180ish yard shot. Lothar Walther barreled Colt 6920. AAC 77gr otm. Super Hogster A3.
6.5 CM. Factory 100 ELD VT. 100-ish meters.
6.5 CM, 100 ELD VT at 60-ish meters on pigs. Big sow close to 400lbs, longer than hitch extension. Willl go drag off with tractor tomorrow, too fuckkng heavy to load myself tonight. Raccoon was 50m with 11.5 MCX Virtus shooting mk262, entry near shoulder/neck and exit hip/ass.
6 does grazing in the field beside the house bout daylight this morning
about 100 yards out, grabbed the 6.5G loaded with 123gr ELD-M's over some LVR in Fed cases touched off by a CCI 400 primer and slipped out the back door and across the yard to my pickup where I used the corner of the cab for a rest.
about 100 yards out, grabbed the 6.5G loaded with 123gr ELD-M's over some LVR in Fed cases touched off by a CCI 400 primer and slipped out the back door and across the yard to my pickup where I used the corner of the cab for a rest.
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Most of my hunting is done with an AR, including all of my coyote hunting (day and night with thermal) and most of my deer hunting (suppressed 10.5" pistol).
Some will argue that it isn't enough gun for big corn fed Northern whitetails and that has simply been completely false in my experience. Proper shot placement and quality handloads has filled the freezer consistenly with no failure. I cannot say the same for other calibers, especially when attempting to use monolithic bullets.
A good hunting rifle should be accurate, light, easy to clean, durable/rust resistant, and easy to carry. In 2024 I'd argue easy to suppress as well. The AR is all of those things and then some: modularity, customization, loads from light to heavy, many calibers, ability to swap on multiple uppers if that is your thing, picatinny rail to swap between QD optics for different situations or mount all sorts of different optics, and more.
Seems pretty ideal to me.
Nov 15th 2020. Fist AR deer.
BCA upper 450 bushmaster.
Mega lower
Older Weaver 1.5-6 Lpvo
250 grain FTX
About 85 yards at a full run chasing a doe
Been several since but just happened upon this pic reading this thread sitting in my blind .
Kill count this season.
(2) Whitetail Bucks
(2) Aoudad/Barbary
(2) Pigs
(2) Whitetail Bucks
(2) Aoudad/Barbary
(2) Pigs
Closed out deer season with three more pig kills to the 6 ARC tally. Pigs, whitetail, and aoudad, it gets it done.
I’ve used various modern sporting rifles and pistols over the years.
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