r/canadaguns • u/raymondtrudeau • Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

They culled the wrong deer ontop of it.

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u/yourunclegord Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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/