01-06-2019, 07:29 AM
(01-06-2019, 12:28 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-05-2019, 05:03 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sport hunters typically want either a trophy or meat, and for that one accurate, strong shot is adequate. If you are hunting with a dog, then you certainly don't want to put your precious dog at risk of getting shot. Your dog is probably more precious than your gun.
I am willing to say that a hunting license might as well be an effective gun license.
By the way -- I predict that the Harry Potter novels will be better remembered than will Justin Bieber.
One well placed shot is adequate and all that should needed if a careless/clueless animal happens to be standing in the middle of a wide open field with short grass located in the middle of no where within comfortable or average shooting range. I don't hunt in a perfect place like that. I hunt wild animals with all kinds of natural instincts honed for survival that do things that are unpredictable at time who prefer to live in woods with all kinds of obstacles that show up at anytime.
Deer are smart enough to know when hunting season begins and to know safe places. I have seen deer standing next to "NO HUNTING" signs, which may be mere coincidence. Deer know what we are, and they know what dogs are. Tigers.
Quote:My uncles advice, "Make the first shot count because every shot taken afterwards is guess work". My dads advice, "Take your time and make every shot count". My uncles advice was the advice of a seasoned hunter that's to a younger less experienced hunter or a seasoned hunter who who has an issue with getting over excited at the sight of a deer or the idea of a deer not falling down and getting away wounded or a young hunter hunting alone for the first without adult supervision or guidance. The advice of dad was that of a seasoned hunter to a son who would become a seasoned hunter just like him some day.
That's how I understand it. You have one shot at a deer, and it is up to you as a hunter to make it a lucky shot for you and finis for the deer. The wounded deer might get away for a while, only to expire -- and become dog food.
Deer hunting is a culture.
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BTW, according to my wife, my last hunting dog was viewed as being more precious to me than her. She would joke with our friends and say, if he had to chose between saving me or his dog, I'm not sure who he would chose to save. My response, I'm not sure who would chose to save either but I sure that I would die trying to save both of you.
Most sport hunters would be delighted to have the government separate criminals from guns. Were I a legislator drafting restrictions on firearms I would be extremely lenient with sport hunters.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.