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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on April 21, 2011, 06:29:17 AM
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a tad to close for my liking
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I like the way they were all bunched up, even the camera guy. Made it easier for the buffalo to get a strike! ;D
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I would not feel right about a Safari or other form of "sport" or "Trophy" hunting unless the game had a near equal chance of killing me as well.
That's just me and I do not expect every one else to agree, if it's to feed your family it's a different story, night scopes, suppressors, (dam, silencer may not be correct but it's easier to spell ) spot lights, what ever it takes.
Just like , I do not approve of shooting prairie dogs, or coyotes for fun. But I realize, I also do not depend on livestock for my living either.
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Thats nothing Phil,
cop a load of this horse puckey
This is probably one of the worst examples of a hunt I have come accross, the outfit should be bloody ashamed to have made it let alone run such a dodgy, canned hunt. The bloke shooting should have access to a BB gun let alone a rifle. We as firearm owners and hunters wonder how groups like PETA get such a following, well its easy f#$kwits like this are allowed to take people shooting and call it hunting and then they show their videos on YOUTUBE.
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A couple of my friends went on a "Boar hunt" in Me. a few years back, they had the same reaction.
You go to the pen and pick your boar, they let it into the enclosure and you kill it on it's way to the feed trough.
The dam things are practically tame :(
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I would not feel right about a Safari or other form of "sport" or "Trophy" hunting unless the game had a near equal chance of killing me as well.
That's just me and I do not expect every one else to agree, if it's to feed your family it's a different story, night scopes, suppressors, (dam, silencer may not be correct but it's easier to spell ) spot lights, what ever it takes.
Just like , I do not approve of shooting prairie dogs, or coyotes for fun. But I realize, I also do not depend on livestock for my living either.
I would probably agree with you, except for the fact that we have prairie dogs like new york has cockroaches. They are a very large problem, not only for livestock producers, but even in city parks and neighborhoods. They absolutely decimate the ground. We try to eradicate them as a pest. The fact that they are fun to shoot is just a bonus. So in a lot of ways they are just like terrorists. ;D
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I like the way they were all bunched up, even the camera guy. Made it easier for the buffalo to get a strike! ;D
Yeah.
Also at the 1:04 mark in the first video, I like how the back-up shooter shoots first....while standing almost directly behind the front guy.
Would have been really easy to blow off a shoulder like that.
Just lucky I guess. ::)
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Rob I had only just seen that vid, and was going to post it here as well
facepalm how can they call that hunting ??
Tom however I know you are not a fan of hunting however would you still stick up for someone wanting to be able to do it though ??
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To me it boils down to this. Are you hell bent on killing something, or are you happy with the hunt (or fishing) regardles of whether you catch/shoot something? If its the latter you are a hunter, if you want the kill, well, you are something else. I've gone on a lot of trips where I can say the hunting/fishing was great, but we didn't get a damn thing. I'd take ten of those over shooting a tame pig in a canned hunt.
FQ13
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I've gone on a lot of trips where I can say the hunting/fishing was great, but we didn't get a damn thing. I'd take ten of those over shooting a tame pig in a canned hunt.
FQ13
Me too. ;D I never got the whole canned hunt idea.
When I hunt, if I kill the biggest buck in the woods then PERFECT. If I don't it's still PERFECT.
At least I got the juices flowing (adrenaline for game and beer for fish) and I'm not at home sitting on the couch.
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Phil, you miss understand me.
What I am opposed to is "Sport" hunting, we get these massholes that come up here shoot 2 or 3 deer for the racks and waste the rest.
If you are hunting for food, something you will eat, I say more power to you.
It isn't so much the hunting I oppose, it is the mindset of some hunters.
If you are fishing for the biggest bass in the lake, get your picture and let it go.
If you are fishing to put a meal on the table the best lure is dynamite. ;D
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What I am opposed to is "Sport" hunting, we get these massholes that come up here shoot 2 or 3 deer for the racks and waste the rest.
Nobody likes slob 'hunters'.
In AK they would be facing charges that make their hunting shooting trip a LOT more expensive! I thought AZ had a wasting game meat law but can't seem to find it right now.
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Me too. ;D I never got the whole canned hunt idea.
When I hunt, if I kill the biggest buck in the woods then PERFECT. If I don't it's still PERFECT.
At least I got the juices flowing (adrenaline for game and beer for fish) and I'm not at home sitting on the couch.
+1
This past season I spent nearly 60 hours total in a blind (more than I had in the last 10 years combined). I was not only trying to put meat in our freezer, but was trying to bag some venison for a couple of friends who don't have a place to hunt where they live. I didn't even get a glimpse of a deer, let alone a shot at one.....and on some of the colder days it was, at times, very painful to my leg and hips.......but I still had a good time because I was there.
I believe in controlled herd culling/management for the overall sake of herd healthiness, but I don't believe in trophy or indiscriminate killing.