Thread: Why semiautos

Originally Posted by eamars

The old E(MSSA) was for sporting and competition only purpose. There is nothing about hunting.

Interesting if that was the original intention, if so, why are they banned when B cat is not?

I got E cat entirely for pest control, no affiliation to any sport shooting club. I was actually a bit surprised that once I had E I could then use the rifle anywhere, I had expected to be limited to using it for pest control purposes only, as this is what I applied for.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

The only ones I can think of are for pest control as in a target rich environment you can transition quickly between targets, you can rapidly follow up on misses especially as often your shooting position is less than ideal..

Not something I would admit to animal rights people, but a large mag semi auto allows you to put 'holding' shots into animals, you may have only a 3 second window to knock down 20+ goats in bush, in 3 seconds you can empty half a 30rd mag into a mob of goats at close range, you don't have to use perfect kill shots every animal first shot, it's only a couple seconds until the kill shot takes them out.

Too many of the general population don't understand the difference between hunting (meat collection, one shot ideally should be plenty, very careful shot placement) and pest control where meat collection is not the primary purpose and you just want to cull as many as possible in shortest possible time. The difference is often very clear when hunters come shooting on the farm, they are often far too slow and methodical in taking a shot and we loose the target.