r/canadaguns • u/raymondtrudeau • 2d ago

Misc Question

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Anybody know what gun his mag would used in? Looks a lot bigger than 5.56-.223 to me.

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u/GodsGiftToWrenching 2d ago

To extend on the point of "you don't need an AR to hunt deer"

The government hiring zew Zealand and american sharp shooters with AR-15's to cull deer on an island in BC, complete with 30 round mags, and suppressors, from helicopter. The program costed millions and many hunters said they would gladly fill extra tags to help the cull, they were denied

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u/Ben-jams 2d ago

They culled the wrong deer ontop of it.

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u/yourunclegord 2d ago

If that is true it wasnt an accident just like them not giving the tags to locals so the meat wouldnt get wasted.

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u/Ben-jams 2d ago

The expert marksmen from the U.S. and New Zealand only managed to kill 84 deer, 18 of which were the wrong species of deer.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10517770/sidney-island-deer-cull-costs-millions/