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Post by schall53 on Dec 19, 2014 9:32:56 GMT -5
I'm really starting to feel ashamed from the opinion some have of our fellow hunters. Although I really doubt safety is the real issue here. Regardless if safety truly is your concern what percentage of your fellow hunters do you feel are idiots. I've hunted heavy hunted state properties all my life. I mean a hunter on every ridge. I have never felt unsafe. Sad. It really is. Span, if this was meant for me I will try to answer. I got my first rifle when I was 10 years old. In the last 51 years I have hunted all over this state and 9 different states. I think I have seen a lot of different hunters in that time and most of them were great people. However like any other group of people you are going to have some bad ones. In that period of time I have been on the receiving end of shots 2 different times. One was the one I related above and the other was a high power rifle in Wyoming, somebody took a shot at a sky lined deer and I was on the next ridge. That shot hit about 10 feet beside me. You ask what percentage, I say it is small, but when you hear that screaming round coming in, one is too many. I am glad that you have never felt unsafe and I hope it stays that way, I unfortunately can't say the same.
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Post by schall53 on Dec 19, 2014 9:34:58 GMT -5
greetings Thank you schall, its nothing to do with the rifles its the operators. Well education and restrictions are the only answer to that problem, over here we have very strict laws on who can have what, over here there is no right to own a firearm it is a privilege , perhaps it is not too bad after all, very very rarely is there an accident, if there is you can bet your shirt it is someone shooting foxes at night and has taken a stupid shot. But stupid people will be stupid people regardless what they use, yes i agree that someone that has gone to the expense and bother and bought a wildcat is going to take the time and make the effort to use it properly and to its best effect. Well what ever happens everyone needs to remember united we stand divided we fall,getting interesting debates full of opinions locked is not a good thing for any of us. regards Billy I agree Billy, we must stand together or the animal rights nuts will win.
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Post by span870 on Dec 19, 2014 16:44:23 GMT -5
I'm really starting to feel ashamed from the opinion some have of our fellow hunters. Although I really doubt safety is the real issue here. Regardless if safety truly is your concern what percentage of your fellow hunters do you feel are idiots. I've hunted heavy hunted state properties all my life. I mean a hunter on every ridge. I have never felt unsafe. Sad. It really is. Span, if this was meant for me I will try to answer. I got my first rifle when I was 10 years old. In the last 51 years I have hunted all over this state and 9 different states. I think I have seen a lot of different hunters in that time and most of them were great people. However like any other group of people you are going to have some bad ones. In that period of time I have been on the receiving end of shots 2 different times. One was the one I related above and the other was a high power rifle in Wyoming, somebody took a shot at a sky lined deer and I was on the next ridge. That shot hit about 10 feet beside me. You ask what percentage, I say it is small, but when you hear that screaming round coming in, one is too many. I am glad that you have never felt unsafe and I hope it stays that way, I unfortunately can't say the same. No it wasn't geared towards anyone in particular just a general statement of what I'm noticing lately.
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