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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[fierywoman]

2. When you go back to hunting wild boar, learn how to make

prosciutto -- wild boar prosciutto is the best! I had in in Italy in the 1980s when it was about $90 a kilo.

Maybe you could share your story with the NRA crowd?

[Drahthaardogs]

55. I make prosciutto

Need the recipe?

[fierywoman]

65. AHhh, what a dream -- thank you so much, but I don't have the space!

[enough]

3. Thank you for writing this. It's interesting how it parallels the narratives of

people working in emergency rooms and of combat veterans.

[X_Digger]

4. bwahaha! Careful, some will take you seriously. n/t

[ginny skinny]

5. I call BS.

A .223 round is generally considered sub-optimal for shooting deer. Are you expecting me to believe a hit from a .223 (5.56) blew a hog to smithereens? I shoot .223 ARs. I'm calling BS.

[aka-chmeee]

31. I have hunted rabbits with 223 (fmj)

Just because KS didn't allow anything smaller than 243 to hunt deer. Didn't really make them less edible than a 22. This seems more like a tall tales competition entry than a credible account of an actual event.

[Ptah]

6. 280 pounds - was virtually vaporized

Cool story, bro.

[sarisataka]

7. Um...

Bullshit

A .50 cal would not do the damage you describe

I have hunted prairie dogs with the .223 out of a bolt action using 55gr soft point and they weren't "vaporized".

[Alea]

11. There are already hundreds of youtube videos of hog hunts with the AR15

The pigs/boars just drop. No vaporizing. You need a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range for vaporization.

[Sailor65x1]

56. Rookie...here's a pro tip

Add Mutate Capacity and the power requirement drops to 20 watts.

You're welcome

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. Psst! You've been had- .223s don't act that way

[Phoenix61]

19. That could be. Shot a BB gun once nt

[Soxderrube]

75. Sorry

This post does more harm to better gun laws than helps, the unknowing will absolutely believe this and spread this around and be pounded by gun nutters for being uninformed. It should be removed just for being so fictitious.

[Phoenix61]

87. Apparently I have been suckered.

Shot a BB gun once.

[ginny skinny]

9. Here's my cite...

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/hunting/ammo-test-223-rem-vs-3030-whitetails

OP, please post your rebuttal cite.

[OhNo-Really]

13. Are you paid for social media by gun makers? or the NRA

[ginny skinny]

21. I am not.

Nope. Just a real world shooter that hopes our side sticks to factual reality and does not stoop to out-of-our-ass made up shit.

[Atticus]

25. Thank you. This is bs we don't need. nt

[friendly_iconoclast]

33. There's another one around going under the name of 'Missed the corner shot' (or...

...something to that effect) that's calling for UN troops to come in and help round up guns
and arrest gun owners, as see:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210244925

No doubt it's just a coincidence that happens to be a longstanding rightwing conspiracy theory:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=OM-QWqWmMuWHggeT86DYDA&q=un+troops+to+confiscate+guns+in+america&oq=un+troops+confiscate+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i30k1l2.4865.13623.0.15955.23.18.0.0.0.0.308.1863.12j4j0j1.17.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..9.14.1619...0j0i13k1j0i7i30k1j0i67k1.0.Gu95OhPrdZM

[sarisataka]

36. That small burrowing

insectivorous mammal has been obvious for some time

[friendly_iconoclast]

22. Bullshit remains bullshit. It doesn't become true just because it confirms what you feel

[ginny skinny]

46. Further more...

I was an NRA member once upon a time but not for many years and never again. They will never see another nickel from us.

[mackdaddy]

10. I have serious doubts about this story.

The .223 round is smaller, and has less powder than the 30-30 cartridge.

At 100 yards the .223 round only delivers about 76% of the energy of the 30-30 round.

There is no way a .223 round will "virtually vaporize" a 280 pound hog, and would do way less damage than the 30-30 round.

Good fiction though.

[B2G]

12. How many time did you reload?

Because there's no way that happened with a shot or 2. Or 10.

[ginny skinny]

14. We are supposed to be the party of science, reason, reality...

Ballistics are science.

[Atticus]

17. BULL SHIT! The AR-15 is designed to do great damage to living flesh, but it does NOT "vaporize"

280# hogs. You've been here less than a week and you lead with this nonsense? No one who has shot a high power flat trajectory rifle---or been shot by one--- could believe your account.

[RandomAccess]

18. I could hug you

I see a number of naysayers, but I have no reason not to believe you. I've also read the accounts of several ER doctors who worked on the Parkland kids last week. What I remember most is a shot to the liver did so much damage "there was nothing left to repair" so it became a fatal wound.

I'm really sorry you were traumatized, but I'm so glad you've shared it with us and hope you'll share it with others too. MANY, many others.

[friendly_iconoclast]

24. "I have no reason not to believe you." Now you do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-30_Winchester

Note the figures under "Ballistic Performance" for both-

Lots more energy in the 30-30

[sarisataka]

30. Here's a good reason to not believe this tale

K=.5mv²

[Drahthaardogs]

41. When I lived in Alaska, I shot a few moose with a 250 grain swift a frame

Out of a .338 RUM that pushes that bullet upwards of 2900 fps. The moose did not vaporize. What am I doing wrong?

[sarisataka]

44. You didn't use an AR-15

The moose head would have been ready for mounting and the body would have been gone

[Drahthaardogs]

47. Can they chamber that in .338 RUM?

Or is the .223 sufficient to vaporize a moose.

[sarisataka]

51. It doesn't matter which round you use

A couple days ago you could not use an AR-15 to hunt deer because it turn the meat into hamburger, yesterday gets nearly took the head off of the deer. Today it mostly vaporizes a large hog. I expect by tomorrow in AR-15 was used to destroy Alderaan.

Somehow the rifle manages to exceed physics as we understand them

[friendly_iconoclast]

64. "I expect by tomorrow (an) AR-15 was used to destroy Alderaan"

Next week, it will be discovered that they're the source of gamma-ray bursts...

[OhioBlue]

23. Hmmmm....

Interesting post for your first day of membership.
Tofu and yoga now, huh? Sounds like quite the lifestyle change.

Just wondering... can venison be considered organic when the deer are eating round up ready soy beans and gmo corn?

And.... just how many times did you shoot that pig?

This entire post is suspicious.

[friendly_iconoclast]

26. The OP is a rather obvious case of pious fraud

[Atticus]

73. Is there ANYONE left under the bridge? nt

[LexVegas]

27. Bullshit. nt

[SidDithers]

29. Welcome to DU...

Sid

[pansypoo53219]

32. shit. what did it do to those kids.

[yagotme]

40. Hmm, 280+ lb hog, usually very tough/solid animal, nearly vaporized,

150+/- lb teenager, I bet those .223 rounds sent little tiny pieces into orbit. Guess that's what took so long to ID all of them.




Don't believe all you read on the web, without some research and logical thinking.

[sl8]

34. "How I was radicalized by Field & Stream"

It's a sad tale I have to tell, a tale which ends with mine own wretched self reduced to gleaning some little sustenance from the lowly soy bean and seeking what solace I may find amongst the women performing painful poses whilst clad in the tight trousers. 'Tis a turrible tale, my friends.

[friendly_iconoclast]

42. Hee hee hee! That's great...

[friendly_iconoclast]

48. And you *still* don't- the OP is bullshit

[Drahthaardogs]

37. You expect me to believe that

A 55 grain bullet will vaporize a 280 lb animal?

I agree it's a shitty cartridge for big game (illegal in all western states), and an even shittier action and style for hunting.

[cwydro]

38. You say you get

“weird looks from the women” there.

Really? I’ve seen plenty of men in yoga.

Never seen any “weird looks” from any of us women.

[pnwmom]

39. THANKS SO MUCH for sharing this. And welcome to DU! n/t

[yagotme]

43. I believe you're welcoming a troll.

JMHO.

[Drahthaardogs]

50. You do realize this never happened, right?

Look to the people here who actually hunt calling it bullshit

[friendly_iconoclast]

53. I hope you realize that you're thanking a troll for trolling?

Protip: Not everyone that superficially sounds like an ally is an ally.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

45. I can't stop laughing. And I can't decide if it's more at the OP or some of the responses.

[X_Digger]

58. I know, right? I've got to save some of the responses from the faithful..

..who are falling for it, hook, line, and sinker.

That right there, is comedy gold.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

62. Sometimes we're our own worst enemies.

(a fishing and hutning magazine)

[vercetti2021]

49. Really?

Come on...it'd make a cool story.

[hunter]

52. I usually hunt whales and pigs with explosives.

[Fla_Democrat]

66. As God as my witness.....

I thought whale blubber could fly......

[ProudLib72]

77. On this episode of "Back in My Day"

"Back in my day, they had really stupid people, too, just like today. But back in my day, we freely used dynamite to solve most of our problems."

[rzemanfl]

54. Bookmarking. n/t

[Hoyt]

57. It does kill people, especially kids, effectively. Loved the gunneroos whining, though.

[ginny skinny]

67. Read Me

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF

[OhioBlue]

91. It does kill people, yes and it's atrocious and the AR 15 should be banned imo

but the op screams BS. We are to believe that this guy was fine hunting and field dressing his wild game, but when he saw a pig after shooting it with an AR15 was so traumatized that he started doing yoga to cope and started eating tofu? really? He might as well say he has started wearing birkenstocks and driving a Prius.

The op is mocking us.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

59. Rookie mistake: You went over the top. Dial it back a bit. It's a long game.

[Kaleva]

60. Newton's Third Law doesn't believe you

Newton's Third Law

The size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the force on the second object. The direction of the force on the first object is opposite to the direction of the force on the second object. Forces always come in pairs - equal and opposite action-reaction force pairs.

The force required to propel a 55gr bullet to such a velocity that it had the energy to vaporize a 280 lb. wild boar that was over 90 yards away would have done you in.

[NutmegYankee]

63. May I suggest you have a good career ahead at America's Finest News Source?

[GulfCoast66]

68. So glad you felt the need to join DU today(at whatever time zone you are in)

But FYI. We liberals hunt. We own guns and know how to use them. Not all of us and we do disagree vigorously on occasion.

And lots of have shot pigs.

Do you homework before you try this again, comrade.

[doc03]

69. Bullshit.. It's a. 223 rifle, I have shot many ground hogs and they are not vaporized, a 280# hog,

no way. It is capable of firing a lot of rounds but it is just an common ordinary small caliber cartridge not any super powerful round.
I am totally against civilians having them but not because they are super powerful, it's massive amount of rounds they can fire. Hey
if they had a 5 round fixed magazine I wouldn't have any objection to them. If they had a 5round fixed magazine few people would want one.

[Kaleva]

70. It'd be a very good small game rifle if it had a 5 round fixed magazine.

[doc03]

74. The only reason people want them is because you can play around

shooting a lot of rounds. I say if you want to play Rambo sign up and put on a uniform.

[Kaleva]

86. So you have more of an issue with magazine capacity then with the gun itself

You are probably okay with the popular single shot break action rifles that fire the .223 Remington.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

71. quoth Gonzalez, BS!

Where do all the "recs" come from on this thing?

Yesterday, I noticed water getting up over the road to my house. This is an inconvenience for the U.S. mail carrier, so I took my trusty .22 revolver, aimed and fired 1 shot. Instantly, a crater appeared on the uphill side of the road large enough to hold all the excess water. I was happy until 3 school buses and a 777 full of nuns and puppies disappeared into the murky water forever.

The end.

Get back under your bridge.

Edit:
Full ignore.

[gay texan]

72. What a load of BS....

.223 doesn't do that. 50 cal anti-aircraft yes

[jmg257]

76. Cool story bro..I hit woodchucks with 5.56 that weren't "vaporized"...

And this round is nothing compared to 7.62, 30-06 etc.

Which are heavier, larger caliber, and much more energy.

[aikoaiko]

78. Most of DU won't know that you're BSing, but a simple Google search...

... will show that an AR15 round will not vaporize a pig. Not a 280 pound pig, and not 28 pound pig.

Google AR15 wild pigs and you'll see.
Fair warning: Don't click if dead pigs or AR15s offend you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ar15+wild+pig&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS751US752&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAm83jzr3ZAhXJu1MKHcIrA58Q_AUICigB&biw=1517&bih=707

[ginny skinny]

82. Thanks for injecting a little reality!

Like wild pigs or not, they don't vaporize when hit with a .223.

[herding cats]

79. Our woodwork is apparently infested around here. nt

[Henry Krinkle]

80. Not buying it.

You'd have to put at least 87 rounds into the fucking thing to do that kind of damage.
One round? A possum or a dag maybe, but no way a hawg.

[flamin lib]

81. Sorry. I find this dubious at best. Fellow DUers be wary of confirmation

Bias.

Nothing about this rings true.

[mn9driver]

83. Hmmm.

Nope.

[mia]

85. Googled part of the story and found the OP is a source of amusement on ar15 website

https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/LOL-Whos-DU-troll-account-is-this-/5-2084518/?page=1

https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/LOL-Whos-DU-troll-account-is-this-/5-2084518/?page=2

I guess I don't get how it's funny. I mean I understand the humor in the ridiculousness of it. But some idiot that already thinks an AR will destroy an animal and is useless for hunting will read that and reaffirm what they believe is true. Then continue spreading the lie. I guess I don't find that very funny...

They’re gonna do that anyway. Might as well give them a BS story that make them sound like morons when they repeat it.

[greyl]

90. Eh, only the fraudulent OP is stupid, people here aren't that gullible. nt

[Fla_Democrat]

95. To be fair....

it's a source of amusement here as well.

[StarryNite]

88. Even with knowing pretty much nothing about the gun...

this tall tale just doesn't pass the smell test. Go back to your creative writing class and tell your teacher you need a tutor.

[NickB79]

89. You inadvertently purchased the wrong rifle. Honest mistake

Video of Joe at the gun shop:

[Ptah]

92. "That's my troll account lol."

https://www.discussionist.com/10151638937#post14

Deplorable (2,196 posts)

14. That's my troll account lol.

One of them. As you can see they fell for it

Dumbass primitives

7 more to go

[Takket]

93. i was just on a jury for this post........

i let it stand because it was misclassified as "right wing smears or talking points". i read it from that standpoint and didn't see a problem with it despite wondering how a bullet made a pig explode. now that i've read the whole thread i wish whoever reported had done so as spam or something like that since i realize now that while it is not a "right wing talking point" it IS bullshit.

Can I change my vote? LOL

The funny thing is there are more then enough ways to criticize guns without needing to just totally make shit up, so i don't understand the point of doing this........

[.99center]

94. Well done!

You pissed off DU's gun enthusiasts and gave everyone else a laugh.