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cmbdiesel · #31 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?

Botnst · #32 02-17-2013, 07:35 PM

Hunting on public land scares me shyteless. Used to enjoy hunting on national forest land nearby. No more. There are some people out there that have no clue wtf they're doing and are too arrogant or stupid to ask. I hunt on my own land and on my in-laws's. No problem there.

The Swede · #33 02-17-2013, 07:40 PM

Wow, gun owners here actually hunt?

cmbdiesel · #34 02-17-2013, 07:54 PM

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Wow, gun owners here actually hunt?

To be completely honest that's why I own guns.

Air&Road · #35 02-17-2013, 08:00 PM

Imagine that!

Out of a pretty good number of guns on hand I don't remember ever purchasing one of them with anything beyond hunting or sport shooting in mind. Of course many of them are also well suited for a self defense role as well.

Botnst · #36 02-17-2013, 08:07 PM

yes

The Swede · #37 02-17-2013, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel

To be completely honest that's why I own guns.

Ditto, but it's been a while.

I went to some gun shows when I was a in my teens. My buddy and I saw Hank Williams Jr. (must have been in town for a show). We thought that was pretty slick.

Lost interest in the guns when we started seriously chasing girls. Never lost interest in cars though....

spdrun · #38 02-17-2013, 08:26 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!

Perhaps gun shows should take a page from ren fairs and re-enactments, and require that guns be "peace bonded" (zip tie or string placed around trigger or mechanism so as to make the weapon unshootable) outside of designated firing areas. Anyone breaking the rule gets expelled from the show and/or the parking lot.

Botnst · #39 02-17-2013, 09:01 PM

^^^ That's pretty much how it is at the gun shows I've been to. They have a couple of LEO's at the entrance who zip-tie the action and you must prove your weapon is unloaded. Seems reasonable.

Skid Row Joe · #40 02-17-2013, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

So do they not have any rules and safety procedures at that tournament? The club I've shot at for about fifteen years has been in heavy operation since 1960 with no incidents whatever.

Larry, I don't know. I'm not a shooter. I do know the alum organizer from Virginia, and I could contact him to perhaps allay my surface fears, however, being present at a skeet shoot or gun range, BOTH with live, active ammo being shot off, has inherent dangers - all unpredictable, unfortunately.

Here's a profile photo shot from the online alumni news - you would know more about what you see at work here, than me.

Skid Row Joe · #41 02-17-2013, 10:16 PM

A second pic:

Botnst · #42 02-17-2013, 10:43 PM

In my (limited) experience with trap shooting, the only person with a loaded gun was the shooter. Everybody else was unloaded, breech open. I got about as much enjoyment from shooting clays as I do from golf -- what's the point?

(As I duck and run!)

Benz Dr. · #43 02-17-2013, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by The Swede

Wow, gun owners here actually hunt?

That's about the only reason anyone around here would have a gun - hunting. Most people who don't hunt don't have a gun. If they do, it was probably passed down.

Must be hard for anyone living in the Sates to believe that there are people out there in the world who are not afraid of their own government and not afraid of the big bad wolf.

Botnst · #44 02-17-2013, 10:46 PM

People who do not fear their government don't know history. In the history of humanity, governments always oppress the people. Think it can't happen to a democracy?

Skid Row Joe · #45 02-17-2013, 11:03 PM

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That's about the only reason anyone around here would have a gun - hunting. Most people who don't hunt don't have a gun. If they do, it was probably passed down.

Must be hard for anyone living in the Sates to believe that there are people out there in the world who are not afraid of their own government and not afraid of the big bad wolf.

Your personal views/ideas of we Americans as joining others and passively "not afraid of their own government," fortunately don't work here, in the *Sates.

We wouldn't be states, or *Sates as you call them, were we not armed to fight the oppression of the British.

Just for the record; they, the (British soldiers) fired upon us first. Fortunately, we fought them off and formed our own Country.

I'm glad we in the states, were armed.