@the-cysko-kid said:

I'm glad you brought this up.. I had forgotten about this pc. I'm about to trade in a small .22 cal 7 shot for a .38 special for CC purposes when I'm doing vaults at one of my businesses. I have a ton of .22 ammo and this is a low cost option for burning it off and a fun small caliber pc.

Wild hogs have pretty much over run inland Florida. Go for a walk out in the Cypress & Palmettos and I'll guarantee you'll have to shoot two things, maybe multiple times.. A Hog and a rattlesnake.

I've killed so many rattlesnakes on my properties over the yrs it isn't funny.. Hitting one of those bastards with a pistol, now there's a challenge

Looks like the lowlands of Arkansas along the expressway...

flooded.

That's mean. Ah well. Never hunted out of ohio anyways.

But I would really like a 5.56. Big enough to be fun, ...we only have 28 acres,

with houses here and there.

I hope we never have wild boars in N. Ohio. That would be bad. I do believe

they have been found in SW ohio...

Dinner plate groups at 300 hundred meters are just fine when you're throwing .30 cal rounds down range in the thousands and you can bury the damn gun in a marsh and pull it out & still keep thumping.

Cal- hogs are mean as hell. Cysko said yall can't hunt with 5.56. I'd look at the 30 cal range (.308, 7.62x39, & 300 blackout). The latter suppressed is a fucking amazing hog/home defense rifle.

I've hunted hogs with both 30 cal and 5.56. I've dropped some 150 lb pigs with 5.56 but I'm a pretty decent shot (/shamelessBragging).

1st choice I'm taking a 30 cal variant "just to be safe"

@mohican said:

logic - why do you say Green Mountain barrels are cheap? I've shot them in muzzleloaders and in that application they are top notch.

Also, I have shot WASRs, semi Auto AKs brought in in the 1980s and pre clinton ban 90s, and now a friends DDI "AK" and as far as accuracy the DDI outshoots everything else, accuracy wise.

Of course, in the same caliber I have found that the Romanian versions of SKSs were much more accurate than the com-block aks, and a lot less expensive.

The Green Mountain barrels are fine for muzzleloaders but are no good when you put a lot of rounds down them with AKs.

I have yet to shoot a DDI so they may be fine. American AKs just have an earned bad reputation. I fire a large volume of rounds a year and so having a nice chromelined bore is my preference.

Also, when shooting AKs, I don't expect anything better than 3-4 inch groups. They are not marksman rifles. They give you good enough accuracy and fantastic reliability. WASRs are a mixed bag. You can have a decent one or a real turd.

I figure you'd have to go to Arkansas, etc.

There are black bear in Ohio, but I don't think bear would taste good.

I want to try alligator. And rattlesnake.

I figure I'd want the 7.62 for hunting long distance game,

but for wild boar, or bear, under 200 yrds whatever, if I ever did hunt those,

would a 5.56 do the job?

I really have to get myself one. I need a coyote blaster.

Also, I have shot WASRs, semi Auto AKs brought in in the 1980s and pre clinton ban 90s, and now a friends DDI "AK" and as far as accuracy the DDI outshoots everything else, accuracy wise.

Of course, in the same caliber I have found that the Romanian versions of SKSs were much more accurate than the com-block aks, and a lot less expensive.

@the-cysko-kid said:

I haven't shot the mk47 but I trust Rock Island products.

@calfoxwc said:

You have to marinate it or else it is extremely gamey.

WSS

@the-cysko-kid said:

They are not legal in Ohio.

These are allowed for deer hunting

Straight-walled cartridge rifles in the following calibers: .357 Magnum, .357 Maximum, .38 Special, .375 Super Magnum, .375 Winchester, .38-55, .41 Long Colt, .41 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, .444 Marlin, .45 ACP, .45 Colt, .45 Long Colt, .45 Winchester Magnum, .45 Smith & Wesson, .450 Marlin, .454 Casull, .460 Smith & Wesson, .45-70, .45-90, .45-110, .475 Linebaugh, .50-70, .50-90, .50-100, .50-110, and .500 Smith & Wesson.Shotguns and straight-walled cartridge rifles can be loaded with no more than three shells in the chamber and magazine combined.

I've always wondered about that. ham....bacon......pork roast, pork ribs....bbq

@logicisforsquares said:

Yeah I thought you guys were stuck with rifled slugs due to everything being flat in the northern part of the state. I could be completely off.

They just started allowing .45 this past year. That's big enough to take down anything in ohio.

@calfoxwc said:

5.56 would be more than enough for wild boar. I have bagged quite a few on private property.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Yeah I thought you guys were stuck with rifled slugs due to everything being flat in the northern part of the state. I could be completely off.

I was like "what the...hell?" Glad I didn't ask that at a local gun shop.

If I ever was to go hunt elk in Montana etc... I'd go for the 7.62.

Hopefully, the 5.56 doesn't rattle peoples' windows. we have 28 acres...

and there's no elk in Ohio.

Although.... the big wild boar....maybe the 7.62 would be a better choice.

Right now, I'm good with hunting the stupid groundhogs all over the place. and the neighbors

built their stupid home back there and cut off one of my safe angles.

I go out there, and I'm living Caddyshack, where he has the gopher laughing at him.... dammit.