RE: Preying on the predators
January 25, 2021 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2021 at 12:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Fun semi aside.
Poorly funded and implemented conservation programs and our under-controlled pest populations actively work together to make the types of invasive brush where semi auto carbines outperform any other rifle on just about every measure.
As alluded to in one of those links, in the eastern us the whitetail deer explosion was a result of an equally historic reforestation. 100 years ago a hunter in the SE US would have been looking at alot of post to post shots over cultivated land. Today, they're hiking through claustrophobic brush and young growth forest trying to take shots at moving targets within 50m, or ambushing them from stands just above the lower canopy cover - death from above.
Additionally, both those environments created and the relative lack of interest in hunting other species means that those other species are simultaneously on the decline and rifles designed for them in their environments have become niche use cases. When we consider that, alongside that reforestation and that change in the populations of games species (and primarily because of it, and even included in it) there's been a loss of value or wealth in rural america....it becomes easy to see how relatively inexpensive short and light rifles with a high rof chambered for affordable and widely available rounds came out on top.
-and that's before they painted them black and marketed them to people who think that they might be the kind of guy who would kill a stranger over a tv in the dark of the night.
Poorly funded and implemented conservation programs and our under-controlled pest populations actively work together to make the types of invasive brush where semi auto carbines outperform any other rifle on just about every measure.
As alluded to in one of those links, in the eastern us the whitetail deer explosion was a result of an equally historic reforestation. 100 years ago a hunter in the SE US would have been looking at alot of post to post shots over cultivated land. Today, they're hiking through claustrophobic brush and young growth forest trying to take shots at moving targets within 50m, or ambushing them from stands just above the lower canopy cover - death from above.
Additionally, both those environments created and the relative lack of interest in hunting other species means that those other species are simultaneously on the decline and rifles designed for them in their environments have become niche use cases. When we consider that, alongside that reforestation and that change in the populations of games species (and primarily because of it, and even included in it) there's been a loss of value or wealth in rural america....it becomes easy to see how relatively inexpensive short and light rifles with a high rof chambered for affordable and widely available rounds came out on top.
-and that's before they painted them black and marketed them to people who think that they might be the kind of guy who would kill a stranger over a tv in the dark of the night.
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