Pennsylvania has a million deer hunters with scoped high powered rifles(more than 1 each) and that is an army in itself.
Hypothetically speaking only; one good shot each, lose the rifle, go home and wait until it’s over.
wiki sucks as a source, but it says that
There are 51 million total guns in texas & Texas population 24 million
There is no way for the folks at Wiki to know, there are a lot of guns with no papers going back to statehood.
My best guess it 2.5-3 guns per every man woman and child in Texas.
But think about their estimate (I think it is low), 51,000,000 guns in civilian hands in Texas. That should sober outsiders.
A lot of the guns here are not AR’s. Many are big bore hunkers.
I recently started reloading for one of our old guns. A model 71 Winchester 348. Had a hard time finding brass but was able to buy some and some Hornady Leverevolution 200 gr. FTX bullets. They have a new rubber tip that makes them safe to shoot in a tubular feed gun. The bullet looks like the typical spitzer design. Can be loaded for over 2500 fps. Very good ballistics. Range? hee hee hee Would amaze you.