It's time for another bonus podcast of Gun Talk.

I'm Tom Gresham with some scattered shots.

Be right with you.

The perfect concealed carry gun, it's the Taurus 740, but you can call it slim.

The Taurus Slim is a lightweight design and thinner than any other 40 caliber in its class.

No revealing lines or lumps makes this the perfect concealed carry gun.

Winner of the 2011 Golden Bolesi Award from NRA's American Rifleman magazine, it's the

Taurus 740, which you can call it slim. See more at Taurus USA.com. Of course, it's the fall.

Hunting seasons are opening, and people are dusting off their hunting rifles,

getting ready to go big game hunting, whether that's deer, antelope, elk, moose, whatever it is.

And a lot of people are looking at their rigs and saying, well, do I need a new gun?

Well, of course, the answer is always. Yes, of course you need a new gun. I am, after all,

the great enabler. I am going to help you spend money on guns, ammo, optics, and accessories.

But let's be realistic about this. There's a push to go to ever smaller and smaller cartridges and call them good enough for big game hunting.

Specifically, the AR-15 platform, 223, 556 caliber.

Good enough.

Well, maybe kind of sort of, okay. Let's talk for a second just about the,

if you will, the morality of going to an ever smaller cartridge. Somewhere between, say, a 300

magnum and a 22 short, most people would agree you've gone too far.

It's not enough.

It's not humane.

What is our obligation to the animal?

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