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My moms dad would drive around their property in Arizona and take deer with a .22lr through the ear for meat.
I was just saying for larger game with possible shots in the 200-600+ yards that a .300BO IMO isn't going to cut it.
We call people who take deer with a .22LR poachers
But yea, otherwise agreed. .300BLK is way less potent and capable than .223, and at 500+ .223 gets pretty marginal, even with good bullet selection.
the AR would make a great hunting platform but until they bring the price point down on the very few builds offered with a round that even comes close to big game hunting it will never be as popular as a traditional bolt rifle.
There are a lot of calibers that are price competitive, for some reason in my earlier list, I failed to mention 6.8SPC.
FWIW, I think there are some strong negatives with trying to shoehorn some of these larger bore calibers into the 5.56 magazine (I mean really, isn't this the whole reason they do this?) Most of the potential problems are solved by moving towards an AR-10/SR-25 platform that's available in quite a few very potent hunting calibers. (WSSM etc)