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RikWriter · July 22, 2000, 08:19 PM

I have taken whitetail with an HK91, an FAL and an AR15. BTW, 55 grain FMJ out of a 16 inch barrelled AR variant put down the deer with one shot each at distances out to 200 meters, so anyone that took 17 shots to kill a deer with a 223 was either hunting mulies or was a really bad shot.

July 22, 2000, 08:19 PM	#7
RikWriter Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 1999 Posts: 2,104	I have taken whitetail with an HK91, an FAL and an AR15. BTW, 55 grain FMJ out of a 16 inch barrelled AR variant put down the deer with one shot each at distances out to 200 meters, so anyone that took 17 shots to kill a deer with a 223 was either hunting mulies or was a really bad shot.