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Lee-Lee

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8. Same reason many in the US do
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:12 AM
Feb 2018

I am not sure what you think a semi-auto gun is, but all that means is that it automatically loss the. Next round and has it ready to fire for you instead of having to manually manipulate an action.

They have been around for over 100 years and people have used them to hunt for just as long.

My dad uses a semi-auto to squirrel hunt because it lets him get a quick second shot off if he misses and has time before the squirrel is gone. He uses a semi-auto shotgun for duck hunting these days because in his 70’s he finds he’s not a fast with a pump as he used to be.

People use them deer hunting for the same reason. Allowing a faster follow up shot means if your first shot isn’t a clean kill you can get the second shot off faster, and that can mean the difference between getting that second shot right then or having to track a wounded deer a long way.

If your idea when you asked that was of a machine-gun spraying from the hip or any similar image the. Your idea of what a semi-auto is and does is probably way skewed from the reality.

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