Gary Reeder
My main question is WHY? For the amount of money
Friday, August 30, 2024, 12:05

spent making a "hybrid" rifle a person could pick up a good used bolt gun that wouldn't raise questions with the Game & Fish should they come on you in the field. All these states are coming up with new regulations that makes a hunter spend more money so he can hunt. This is like the no lead bullet crap that California's politicians started several years ago.
Our own Game & Fish here in Arizona are hassling hunters in the field, telling them they need to use the no lead ammo. And this is not a law....yet. They just want to have full control of our guns, our seasons and our ammo. Hell, they even just put a season on Prarie Dogs here in Arizona.

But back to the bolt gun question there is absolutely no reason for a person to go to all the expense coming up with a bolt action AR-15 just to keep politicians happy. A bolt action AR-15 has no redeeming features including accuracy, easy of action, fool proof internals and so on. The hunters should realize that if they jump thru the hoops the state game & fish dept puts them thru now, what new regulations are they going to add on next year or the year after. Plus the hybrid guns will probably be "manufactured" in some wannabe gunsmith's garage.
I see no advantage to going thru the expense of having a bolt action AR-15 made when any hunter can pick up a good used bolt action at any gun shop and if he feels he has to kiss the Game & Fish's ass by using one of the new straight wall cartridges that are highly under powered, then go with any of several straight wall cartridges already on the market.
Sorry for the rant but this is just like the California crap of a few years back. The California hunters fell for their spiel then and are suffering with it today. Arizona's game & fish is seriously thinking of going with the no lead BS and it will stop a lot of folks from hunting if they do.