Keep your brace to hunt? That’s what I’m doing lol. We just need to pray they don’t get rid of the “pistol” ar definition so we can keep hunting with them.
Wait PISTOLS are fine but not SBRs? I was thinking their reasoning was accuracy not leading to clean kills, but pistols are significantly less accurate…
Hunting laws generally make NO SENSE in regards to equipment regulations. My state Indiana until very recently didn’t allow centerfire rifle cartridges for use. Straight walled pistol calibers are OK though however. It’s how we got calibers like the 350 legend. You were basically limited to a shotgun or a 357/44 magnum chambered pistol or rifle.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries had a law on the books about using suppressors while hunting. Paraphrasing, it basically said: it’s legal, provided that the suppressor is legal with the ATF.
DWF just announced this week that any homemade suppressors or suppressors transferred via 4473 are legal for hunting.
Jokes on them, you can use braced pistols for hunting. Including braced AKs and ARs.
Florida has had such rules on the books for ages. Rifles are super restricted, pistols are almost unlimited in terms of configuration. So you just hunt with an AK pistol.
So just leave a brace on your hunting setup and leave it in a pistol configuration. Make sure to keep it ethical for hunting. I don’t mind a short barrel if it’s carrying energy with something like a .458 SOCOM round, but a well placed 5.56 round out of a 10-14.5 would be frowned upon if you managed to loophole it.
I've hunted Black Tail Deer with a suppressed 12" 450 Bushmaster "pistol". Lots of fun and the game warden couldn't find a law that said it was illegal. 5.56 is outright illegal to hunt with in my state.
Honest question from an swedish hunter. What type of situations do US hunter find themselves in where you would prefer a sbr? Here i could see it being an excellent choice for a doghandler in a driven hunt, as long as its in a higher caliber like 458 but otherwise I have a hard time finding a good niche for it. (Doesnt mean they should be banned, to each their own as long as you take ethical shots)
Oh dont get me wrong i have suppressors for all my rifles, its the one leg up we had on american gun owners.
Its just that from all i have seen of hunting in the US (meateater and the like) has been stalking in fairly open terrain and on occasion treestands and calling so i got curious.
What and how do you usually hunt in thick terrain in the US? From what i understand its illegal in most states to hunt with dogs so how do you get animals to scot around or come to you in the thickets? Or do you stalk through the brush? Also what calibers? If you hunt for some larger game i have to think you got to step up caliber to get enough energy out of a short barrel.
Here we usually do driven hunts with dogs depending on what animals you are after. For most hunts dogs are breeds that are a fair bit slower than what we are hunting for so they dont panic and instead just move around making it more likely they run by a hunter, usually sitting in a stand. This means that the only one really moving around and therefore in need of a small rifle is the guy handleing the dog. We usually have short barrels for europe (18in) for these guys but i havent really had a problem with the suppressor snagging on branches even in new spruce plantations. There are some companies starting to do bullpups though so maybe europe will take that route to shorter rifles instead. Although they are weird and expensive as hell.
Many shows and adverts show hunting in the American west: wide open plains, high desert, etc. I've always had the impression this was for the the cinematography and photography. You can see everything and the camera can easily gain line of sight of the game in the hunters line of sight. Woods and forests offer less of that.
A significant portion of the US has thick woods. Places like the PNW and many southern states have thick brush and long grass to stalk through. Imagine brush so tall and thick that you would be able to spot a black bear until it's within 15 yds (maybe closer). There are many other places in the states like that.
A 50 Beowulf, .458 Socom, or .450 bushmaster (among other cartridges) and at home in these areas as well as on short barrels.
Everywhere I have lived and hunted, the forest was extremely dense. Now that I use a suppressor for hunting I almost exclusively use a short 300blk. Low recoil for easy shooting, easy to navigate the brush with, and effective out to 200 yards which is longer than I ever have a sightline for. If I was hunting somewhere more open with longer shots then I would be using a longer riffle and larger caliber.
I remember when I got my first shotgun (used) the mag tube was plugged with a wooden rod to block the full capacity. I asked r/shotguns if this was normal. They said yes, I made a lighthearted complaint.
That was the day that I learned hunters love gun control.
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u/TipItOnBack 3d ago
Keep your brace to hunt? That’s what I’m doing lol. We just need to pray they don’t get rid of the “pistol” ar definition so we can keep hunting with them.