Posted on 11/22/2004 7:20:55 AM PST by Rio
"...SKS 7.62 mm semiautomatic rifle, a common hunting weapon."
Not here in Penna.
He used an assault weapon too as per the MSM. You always use an assault weapon when deer hunting, doncha know?
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Good grief! The SKS was an Eastern Block semi-auto combat rifle before being replaced by the more maintenance friendly AK-47. The 7.62X39 round is not particularly a good deer round either.
If the SKS is a “common hunting weapon” up there, the game wardens must be really on edge . . . and a shootout between 3 round bolt guns and someone with a semi-auto is hardly fair and not very intelligent on the part of the people with the bolt guns!
they may have been returning fire after the dude with the semi auto opened up only thing i can think of that makes sense here
Game postponed for lack of ammo.
Another case of multiculturalism run amok. Here's guessing Mr. Vang has never been hunting before. He probably doesn't understand the term "posted". His firearm was bought more for ego satisfaction than it's finely crafted ability to make one clean shot.
I don't know what kind of Hunter Education Mr. Vang went though but clearly, it wasn't enough.
...and he used a Chicom 7.62-mm rifle, go figure < /scarcasm >
It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the hunters opened up on him first. It was their land and he was trespassing. They wouldn’t have realized that they were confronting someone who had likely been in a fire fight before and was armed as he was.
As for this nutjob psycho poacher, he needs to fry.
I doubt any of them shot back. The perp was found with no ammo. ~20 rounds were reportedly fired. 8 people were shot, some of them twice. They probably froze. A bolt gun is fine though for someone to return fire. One shot is all it takes.
I suspect it was a firearm he was accustomed to and could afford . . . considerably cheaper than even a workhorse Model 700 or Model 70. Ammo’s cheaper, as well.
I'll take my BA everytime Pete. Friday afternoon, I drove right down W 70 directly past that area. I saw a MINN. plate car with a goofy looking easterner exploring through junk in the trunk of his car. Since we don't see a lot of those folks up here, I made a mental note of it. I wonder if this guy is here legally?
But, we really need those guest workers to keep the funeral and mortuary business humming!
Maybe I should start a line of sportswear; hunter orange kevlar vests.
I have purchased an SKS for use by my sons, when they were younger to use deer hunting. I even hand loaded premium bullets so they could use if for that purpose. Balistically, it is not that far different from a 30-30 and about as accurate (I have a Marlin 336 30-30) at 100 yards. The biggest problem with the 7.62x39 ammo for hunting is finding quality ammo. If you manufacture your own it isn't a problem.
Another reason that I got the SKS for my sons when they took hunter safety, was that as a gas operated semi-auto, its recoil is quite mild. Finally, the stock is cut for a "small" person. In short the SKS can be a reasonable deer hunting rifle for the right person and they are quite inexpensive for the quality one gets.
Having said that, I still prefer my Win Mod 70 30-06 for deer.
I am sure that this incident will shortly be the poster child for calls by Democrats to ban all semi-auto firearms or at least all "military style" semi-automatic firearms.
Yeah, obviously I don’t know for a fact. One does have to wonder what Mr. Vang was doing “hunting” with a fully charged SKS and an additional stripper clip. If he had a license, he had to know that was not legal (it certainly isn’t here).
I’ll concede your point about bolt guns and one shot . . . but it takes a certain measure of expertise and experience to prevail that way when lead is being slung.
Actually fairly common, though they may prompt an occasional check by a warden to to be sure you're not using jacketed ammunition.
Sounds like a Lao name.
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