Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(01-07-2019, 11:11 AM)David Horn Wrote: FWIW, almost all deer hunting around here is done from tree stands.  Sitting in a tree and waiting for a deer is boring, unless you entice the animal with doe-pee, or something similar.  Which makes hunting less about skill than patience.  I live in an exurban area, with some semi-concentrated housing and larger areas of rural land.  I can hear gunshots almost every day just being at home.  So far, no shots have intruded on my property, at least to my knowledge.

I hope that the venison is well used, but I'm more than a bit suspicious it may not be.  That said, we are overrun with deer; hunting is preferable to mass starvation.

I hunt from a tree stand and have mainly hunted from a stand. My dad and uncle were more into group hunting and posting and driving deer. My uncles personal views and advice pertained more to that style of deer hunting than stand hunting and his knowledge of the rifle that he used for deer hunting. His deer rifle was better suited for open field or open woods and hunting antelope or smaller bodied deer. I've been called lucky by hunters who didn't know any better or hardly knew us or hardly hunted with us at all.. The 12 point, 225 pound (dressed) Boone & Crocket that I shot several years ago was pretty lucky in a way. Yes, I admit that I was very lucky to have had the opportunity and very lucky for him giving me a chance to harvest him. He should have lived. He should've continued following the doe that he was chasing. He shouldn't have stopped in his tracks in thick cover and tried to figure out where I was located or trying to figure out what my ATV was instead. I think he was trying to figure out what the old weathered plywood blocking the back of my ATV was at the time. Locating him and locating a part of him to shoot at that would either drop him or completely miss without gut shooting him or destroying his hind quarters without spooking him or giving away my location or presence took some skill and harvesting him with an unbelievable shot through a tiny opening through the brush located with my scope and making a shot that required pin point accuracy that dropped him in his tracks took quite a bit of skill to accomplish as well. I familiar with exurban areas too.