Thread: 1st AR15 kill

I went and bought a 'black fun gun' a while back. A Windham Vortex.
Licensing rules dictated i needed a thumbhole stock, 7shot mag version. After scoping it with a Nikon P223 i loaded up some 60gr nosler B Tips and went to the range. It was immediately obvious that the gun was a shooter and in two trips to the range no group was over half an inch ! This made the choice of getting the heavy barrel vortex model easyer to live with.
It got its first walk on the weekend and it did me proud. I dropped a mate off to hunt some riverflats covered in willows and gorse that we knew held a mob of sika, (he was keener than me) I then checked out another part of the block for a few hours. I came back to the flat at lunchtime to see if he had enough of gorse bashing. With the height of a terrace i was able to see most of the flat and even could look into open patches and clearings which werent obvious from ground level. Thinking i might see animals being pushed ahead of my mate i got into a better position at the end of the flat. (ambush set) I saw the human pin-cushion making his way like we had planned it and he looked very on edge, pushing into rubbish that no sane man would. At the debrief he said he had bumped into the mob half an hour before and was trying to catch up for a shot. After a few minutes a shot rang out from under the pretty yellow flowers, he had his reward for a tough hunt. No others broke from cover so i called up on the radio and guided the gorse predator into a clearing to show him where i was. He went back in to gut the yearling and spooked a big hind that was holding tight like a pheasant. Now it was my time to make a name for myself. She was 135 yards away and going like snot, i wondered if my mag was big enough, i wondered if the 223 was big enough, then i cleared my thoughts, took a bead and fired when it felt right. OMG a hit ! she cartwheeled in a big dust cloud but got up again and ran like snot back where she came from. A miss, a thump then another thump had her cartwheeling again and down for good. Man shooting AR15s can be fun. After this everyone wanted to carry the little heavy gun.
Before we left i rolled a goat off a slip at 730yds with the 338FX which impressed the boys but i will remember the trip for my 1st AR15 kill.

That's not a hunting rifle man. That's pretty insane. You cant shoot animals with that. That's an assault rifle.

Awesome

How is the scope? Good? bad?

Originally Posted by Daggers_187

That's not a hunting rifle man. That's pretty insane. You cant shoot animals with that. That's an assault rifle.

cant tell if you are taking the piss or not.

from Assault rifle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An assault rifle is a selective fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.[1] Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern armies. Examples of assault rifles include the StG 44, AK-47 and the M16 rifle.
Semi-automatic-only rifles like variants of the Colt AR-15 are not assault rifles; they do not have select-fire capabilities.

so i say, nice sporting firearm you have there.

Originally Posted by Daggers_187

That's not a hunting rifle man. That's pretty insane. You cant shoot animals with that. That's an assault rifle.

The silencer and scope make it a stealth sniper assault rifle, capable of silently picking of targets 3 miles away at a rate of fire of 30 bullets per half second. The bar connecting the stock and grip gives the stock extra strength, so you can beat things to death with it when your clipazine runs out.

That is cool!

Can't those black things shoot 5 clipazines in 1 second?

Goods work

Great result 338 man....nice eater there....we'll done mate

That picture makes me uncomfortable.

Nice work.

Thanks for the support guys. Even though i grew up watching Rambo movies i never had a want for a 'Black Gun'.
It was only resently while working for Darren ( DPT ) i got to check out 1st hand AR15 rifles and liked the concept.
The purchase was never intended to replace my ' Proper ' hunting rifles but i knew i needed 'sorry, wanted one !' and i am very happy with it. As a fun gun there is only one thing better than an AR15 and that is an DPT suppressed AR15

The potential inconvenience of a thumbhole stock is greatly over shadowed by how awesome it would be to hunt with an AR15! Any particular reason for going 223 over 308?

Originally Posted by 338 man

Thanks for the support guys. Even though i grew up watching Rambo movies i never had a want for a 'Black Gun'.
It was only resently while working for Darren ( DPT ) i got to check out 1st hand AR15 rifles and liked the concept.
The purchase was never intended to replace my ' Proper ' hunting rifles but i knew i needed 'sorry, wanted one !' and i am very happy with it. As a fun gun there is only one thing better than an AR15 and that is an DPT suppressed AR15

+1

The DPT can on my AR is great, bought when they were on sale for $200. Hard to beat for that price!

Originally Posted by JayColli

The potential inconvenience of a thumbhole stock is greatly over shadowed by how awesome it would be to hunt with an AR15! Any particular reason for going 223 over 308?

We can hunt with ARs without thumbhole stocks.

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