American farmers are genociding feral hogs with automatic weapons, ergo they, the farmers, cannot be suffering.
OK there is just so much stupid and ignorance in this set of tweets it'll take a while to unpack.
While there are "AR-15" platforms that can be chambered in anything from 17 Mach IV to .50 SOCOM (wildcat), the most common usage is .223 Remington. HOWEVER, anyone who knows anything about wild pigs knows that they're tough as SHIT, hell, EPIC legends/myths were written about just how tough as shit a European Wild Boar was. This is due to a huge cartilaginous "shield" they have under the skin of their neck and shoulders. .223 isn't really even powerful enough for deer, it'll do the trick for coyotes and small shit, but NOT a full size hog. You're going to want something bigger and more powerful bulletwise, like
at least a .270 or .308. So NO, stupid person that Bob's replying to, a .50 is certainly NOT excessive, especially if you want a nice clean kill and don't want to worry about a wounded boar running around, because those fuckers are
DANGEROUS when wounded. But then again, this person (not to mention Bob himself) is so ignorant, they probably couldn't tell a .50 from a 30/30.
And, Bob is DOUBLE-STUPID for criticizing "
rich psycho jerkoffs" for having "
expensive, impractical murder-toys" that "
they can't use on people 'yet'". Like, motherfucker, if they're itching to use their murder-toys on PEOPLE, and you think these are the underevolved
MAGAnaiseghoulen Unpersons, what makes you fucking think that the fact it's illegal to use "murder toys" as such on people would STOP them from doing so?! And what's going on in his deranged smooth galaxy brain where he assumes anyone wants The Most Dangerous Game to become Legal?
Not only that, Bob's exceptionally ignorant about invasive species such as Wild Hogs. I knew this stupid fucker was anti-hunting on top of being generally anti-gun, but holy shit. Killing invasive species is NOT "Murder" in ANY way, shape or form. It ain't trophy-hunting, pal. It's pest extermination. It almost (ALMOST!) amazes me the cognitive dissonance Bob goes through with his "meat comes from the grocery store" style ignorance befitting of the late, not-so-great NDP Leader Jack Layton and continuing to consoom meat, whilst virtue-signalling his disgust at anyone who dares take down an animal with a gun or crossbow.
Can farmers be "rich jerkoffs"? Yeah, just like anyone else. Are their "murder-toys" impractical? Uh,
fuck no? They bought firearms and ammunition suited to the task at hand (or hired someone with said tools, which either way who fucking cares?!) - killing a lot of pigs in a short period of time.
I did find a video that's similar if it's not the same video on Twitter. One guy on a jeep has a M-134 and he's only doing full-auto if he finds a cluster of hogs. You can hear him single shotting pigs and the pig going down in one. The M-134 is chambered in 7.62x51 NATO. This is definitely an appropriate round to deal with wild hogs, as it is virtually identical to .308. If this IS the same video they're showing on twitter, they're triple-retarded for misidentifying any "automatic" weapon (like the M-134) as an "AR-15". Reminds me of that meme I saw a while back:
