Common Murder Weapons and Their Alternate Uses

Is The .223 Rem. Deadly For Deer?
With the right bullets, the .223 Rem. can be a freezer-filling cartridge for deer hunters.

POSTED BY: Richard Mann
October 27, 2011

A lot of deer hunters believe the .223 Rem. is not enough of a cartridge to be called deer ammo. There is some logic behind this. After all, deer are sometimes lost to hits from cartridges as large as the .30-06. Truth be told, those lost deer are more than likely due to bad shooting as opposed to bad or little bullets. Regardless of what cartridge you deer hunt with, your bullet needs to penetrate deep enough to pass through vital organs. It should also expand or deform in a way to maximize the destruction of those organs.

The .223 Rem. is legal for deer hunting in a lot of states, and has proven to be effective when proper bullets are used. The down side to the .223 Rem. is not velocity or bullet diameter; a .243 Win. is no faster, and its bullet is only .02 inches wider in diameter. (That's a difference of less than the thickness of your credit card.) Bullet weight is the .223's weakness. Because most bullets shed weight as they expand and penetrate, bullet expansion combined with weight loss limits penetration. For .22 caliber bullets to be effective on deer, they need to expand wide so they can maximize tissue destruction, but they also need to maintain their weight so they can drive deep....emphasis added

Bullet makers have addressed this with what some call "premium" bullets for the .223 Rem. Bullets like the Nosler Partition and Barnes TSX, which are loaded by Federal, and one of my favorites, the 62 grain Fusion load, are perfect examples. These bullets will double in diameter when they expand, but lose very little or no weight at all. The result is a bullet that will penetrate as deep as any .30-30 Win. bullet, and often damage more tissue because of the higher velocity.

Velocity is important because a higher velocity means more displaced and damaged tissue. A bullet sort of makes a splash inside the liquid-filled tissues of a deer—like when you throw a rock into a pond. Throw the rock slowly and you get a small splash; throw it faster and the splash is bigger. Muzzle velocities from a .223 Rem. are fast—1,000 fps faster than a .30-30 Win. However, because of the low ballistic coefficient (BC) of .224 caliber bullets, they slow down quickly. (Note: The .223 Rem. actually has a .224-inch diameter.)

However I will agree that an AR-10 in .308 would make an excellent weapon to hunt deer or even moose.

President Jimmy Carter Wanted Drugs Legalized Back in 1977
MAY 29, 2012 BY RHONDA WINTER 1 COMMENT

Last year the New York Times published a compelling editorial by former President Jimmy Carter demanding that we call off the global drug war. Carter highlighted a report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy describing the total failure of the drug war, as well as their proposal recommending the legalization of most drugs. Indeed the “war on drugs” has failed miserably. As with prohibition, it has once again been proven that “morality” can not be legislated.

Drug legalization not only makes economic sense, it is also much more beneficial for our society as a whole. Carter explains the extent of economic and societal destruction that the global “war on drugs” has wrought:

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The article also mentions an enlightened drug abuse message from President Carter to Congress in 1977, which recommended that our country decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, and implement a complete program of treatment for addicts. He also cautioned against filling our prisons with young people who were no threat to our society, and summarized by saying:

“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”
http://ecolocalizer.com/2012/05/29/president-jimmy-carter-wanted-drugs-legalized-back-in-1977/