The guy just thought he'd help out. With bullets. Also:

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65. Don't kid yourself- your hunting rifles are just as deadly as any AK or AR.

Even moreso at distances much past 200 meters or so.
In fact, if your hunting rifles had been in Vietnam, they would have been Army-issue sniper rifles:



In fact, Army snipers still use what is basically a hunting rifle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M24_Sniper_Weapon_System

The M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS) is the military and police version of the Remington 700 rifle, M24 being the model name assigned by the United States Army after adoption as their standard sniper rifle in 1988. The M24 is referred to as a "weapons system" because it consists of not only a rifle, but also a detachable telescopic sight and other accessories.

The M24 SWS had the "long-action" bolt version of the Remington 700 receiver because it originally was to use the .30-06 Springfield M72 Match cartridge. It turned out there was an insufficient amount of these rounds in a single lot of manufacture, so the operational requirement changed to use the dimensionally smaller 7.62×51mm NATO M118 Match Grade cartridge.