Cops Take Down Deer with M-15 Assault Rifle...
 

Police in Town & Country, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis) had to take down a very big, very aggressive 10-point buck with an M-15 (!!!) after officers fired three shots at it with a handgun and the beast was still standing!

All this happened inside a HOME DEPOT that the deer hand trotted into.....

Talk about overpopulation! ;)

Here's the story....

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2008-...ry-strip-mall/

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Wow...

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wow

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Is that a cross between and M-16 and AR-15? ;)

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i was wondering about that too, but i found this on Wikipedia---

Today, the "M-15" designation is used as a marketing name for certain civilian variants of the M16 rifle, particularly the ones manufactured by ArmaLite.

so i guess it's your good ol' m-16
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...m4m16a45wi.jpg

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Huh? Their idea of reducing the herd is shooting the bucks? Then they back up that stupid idea with the sterilization of does? Why not just have a friggin' hunt for them. Make it doe only. I'm sure people would pay good money for that chance.

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I grew up near there and since I left there are stories like this every year. In fact, I almost hit a 6 or 8 pointer on the way to my parents a couple years ago and never had seen one in the twenty or so years prior. The area is almost entirely subdivisions for miles. Every timeI can rememberanyonementioning a managed hunt, residents freak out against it. It is too bad, I think they have been doing the sterilzation and sharp shooter 'method' for a few years if I remember corrrectly. People don't want to hit deer with their cars, but don't want one bleeding out in their yard either, I guess. Too bad

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Haha.

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thats crazy. we had that happen at school 2 weeks ago. a doe ran through the front doors

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wow... thats crazy

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Most cops are carrying 9mms, 10mms, 40 cals, these are going to have a tough time taking down a deer especially a psycho rutting buck. They shoudl have just shot it with the rifle to begin with. This story reminds of a couple years ago back on opening day of our gun season. My neighbor goes to his stand climbs up and theres a bear laying on the deck of the tower blind house...He calls the dnr, they send out a female warden. the bear is aggressive, she pulls out her 9mm and shoots it in the air thinking its going to scare the bear away, wrong, pisses the bear off, my neighbor looks at her and says, do you really think that gun is going to kill this bear, shes like yea why wouldnt it, he asked if he could shoot it with his rifle, she said no, that woudl be against the law. He looks at her and says here take my rifle and you shoot it, she said she cant shoot a rifle??????? he looks at her and says well im going to a different stand, you can stand here and piss that bear off all you want, but im out of here. he left, and she wasnt too far behind him :D

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Yea a couple of years ago a doe came running on to our schools lawn and ran right into a fence and killed its self wierd huh i thought deer normally are pst to jump over fences.

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ocward

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Alderman Bill Kuehling, chairman of the city's Deer Task Force, says he learned of the incident shortly before the board meeting, but was not surprised. "This is the rut season, when bucks become aggressive and overly active," notes Kuehling. "I've recently had a complaint from a bicyclist who was chased by a buck. Apparently it mistook his handlebars for horns."

That's kind of funny they have a "deer task force". I wonder how you get that job. The other funny thing is that I think I may start taking a bicycle into the woods with me. I never throught a buck might be attracted to handlebars.

And the last thing. Isn't a M-15 a .223? I thought we all agreed that isn't enough gun to kill a deer. :D

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hahaha....I live about 10 minutes from there. I know a lot of people who live there. I would pay to hunt there but Town and Country is kind of a more.....for lack of a better term...rich and proper neighborhood.

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this is crazy i cant believe that they would hire "sharpshooters" to go in and kill bucks only. this is so dumb. they oviously know nothing about controlling the herd population as this story confirms. They obviously have a huge problem with controlling the herd and do not know what to do about it, or up until this point have done nothing about it. Instead of having a controlled hunt, even if it were not with any type of gun but with bows, they would rather waste tax payers money and pay someone instead of gaining money and having hunters as ourselves pay for a tag and have them taken out. This is dumb. I live by Argonne National Labratories and they did the same thing. The deer population was so high they had to hire these so called "sharpshooters" to cull the deer herd. What is wrong with politicians?

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Thanks for saying it, bcvd45. I never was a big fan of residents. The most vocal ones complain just too complain.