Cudos to you deerndingo. Finally a man with some integrity.
I play this same game. I lost one once and it bothered me for quite a while.
A lot of people forget why the army went to the 5.56/.223, it's wounding power. It was light to care and you could carry more. Recoil was very manageable and it would wound an enemy and them it would then take more enemy soldiers to carry him off the battle field. But when hunting we don't want to wound, we want to get as clean a kill as possible.