This is somewhat misleading. AR-15 patterned rifles are a mainstay of shooting enthusiasts. You'll be hard pressed to find someone who hunts with a select fire

This is somewhat misleading. AR-15 patterned rifles are a mainstay of shooting enthusiasts. You'll be hard pressed to find someone who hunts with a select fire, optionally fully automatic m16. It's not really humane to hunt anything but foxes and rabbits with a civilian AR-15. 5.56×45mm is too small to guarantee a killshot against a deer, so most consider it pretty inhumane to try -- there's a high likelyhood it'll leave a deer to slowly bleed out.