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Air&Road · #1 02-17-2013, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Your comment that all the accidental shootings at gun shows happen in the parking lot does not make me feel any safer at a gun show!

I stopped deer hunting because of all the doofus's in the woods blowing stray bullets everywhere and I wouldn't expect the gun shows to have a much higher level of patrons.

It's easy to understand why you gave up hunting in that environment. I gave it up years ago just because. I have a few hanging on the wall that I'm proud of so it was time to do something else.

It's different here though because we hunt on private land. I've had very little problem with trespassers and I know what is happening on this and surrounding places.

The reason I chimed in on your post though was to tell about something I read years ago, I think in "The Deer Hunters Bible". Wherever it was, they told a true story about a city boy that was hunting on public land where they had to come out through a checkpoint. When the city boy stopped and was asked if he had success he excitedly and proudly proclaimed that he had bagged a really nice deer. The warden asked to see it and the city boy, with a huge smile on his face threw back a canvas in his trailer and underneath was a mule.

cmbdiesel · #2 02-17-2013, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

It's easy to understand why you gave up hunting in that environment. I gave it up years ago just because. I have a few hanging on the wall that I'm proud of so it was time to do something else.

It's different here though because we hunt on private land. I've had very little problem with trespassers and I know what is happening on this and surrounding places.

The reason I chimed in on your post though was to tell about something I read years ago, I think in "The Deer Hunters Bible". Wherever it was, they told a true story about a city boy that was hunting on public land where they had to come out through a checkpoint. When the city boy stopped and was asked if he had success he excitedly and proudly proclaimed that he had bagged a really nice deer. The warden asked to see it and the city boy, with a huge smile on his face threw back a canvas in his trailer and underneath was a mule.

I only hunt on private land. Can't deal with the asshats in places open to the public.
When I lived on a couple hundred acres out west, I walked the property with my rifle or shotgun at least once a week.
Here in CT I go to a few different spots with landowner permission, as I don't live on anything big enough to hunt on.
(although if the deer come in the yard after the fruit trees, they may get a broadhead...)
Hunting that way is so much better. Take a good shot at the right animal when the opportunity is best.
The public hunting where people have to try and shoot something in a four or five day period... that puts undue pressure on people who entered the woods with an itchy finger...
Can you imagine what it must be like out there on the last day of season?