Do you hunt?

First and foremost I was a hunter. I had shot skeet a few times after being introduced to it at the St.Catharines Gun Club at my hunter safety course. When I was 18 we moved to North Bay and I acquired my first Lab for waterfowling and joined the local retriever club. I decided I had best learn to shoot if my dog was going to have any chance to retrieve consistently and joined the North Bay Skeet and Trap Club. From age 19 I have shot clay targets avidly and I would now consider myself a 50/50 mix of hunter/shooter. Waterfowl hunting is still my first love though.
 
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Hunter! I shoot because I love guns and shooting, and to maintain/improve my skills. nary a day goes by that I don't have a gun in hand; but every shot I fire I picture a tasty piece of animal on my plate!
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This.

Sadly for me to live somewhere this could be a lifestyle for me I'd need a new wife. Took me long enough to trick this one. And I'm quite fond of my kids. So that's not going to change.

Actually the wife was pretty mean with my old air rifle when I set up some pop cans at my parents a few years ago. I even took her to the trap range when she was 3 months pregnant with the first one, she had fun but wasn't bitten by the bug the way I was hoping... maybe one day.
 
Hunter first, second, and third. When I can't hunt, I shoot and reload. Or like many on here, spend time on CGN yapping about hunting and shooting. Lol
 
Hunting and target shooting for me. Love grouse hunting and enjoyed duck hunting, difficult to learn the ropes of duck hunting though; requires a boat or farmland permission here.

Have been addicted to clay shooting since December though. It's great fun and you get to meet lots of people as well who are willing to teach and offer advice for newbies.

Tldr both
 
I started as a hunter ,,,,,,,, all game , big & small. I got into target shooting to increase my skill to hunt & to enjoy
handgun shooting . The target shooting got bigger & bigger , but I always go hunting as #1 . I liked old Winchesters
from the beginning & got my 1st. 1873 on Nov.-8 , 1967 ( Yes , I still have the bill) from an Antique Shop in Toronto
for $ 90.00 ( Yes that is ninety dollars) . From that love of Winchester levers & seeing Cowboy Action Shooting
starting in California , I started to run Cowboy Shoots in Canada , in May 1985 . That was the 1st. Canadian
CAS ever . I have ran an annual CAS every year since . ,,,,,,,,,,,, Frank
 
Started hunting chickens as a kid. Back eating game was part of the family diet. Now day, I spend my summers at the gun range or hunting gophers and the fall hunting deer.
 
Definitely a hunter here who occasionally plinks...... I hunt all year round may it be deer, moose, bear or coyotes you'll find me in the thick of it avidly hunting my prey when im home... when I'm working out west I'm hunting gophers, pigeons, coyotes etc etc too for some farming friends I've made out there... I grew up hunting and most of my earliest memories are of me as a pretty young kid strapped into dad's 4wd truck heading to the camp to get some quality hunting time in.... there's nothing better than my crock pot bubbling and simmering away with a yummy bear roast in it that I tracked, killed and butchered myself with a firearm I do all my own maintenance and repairs to. :)
 
gmctech said:
...there's nothing better than my crock pot bubbling and simmering away with a yummy bear roast in it that I tracked, killed and butchered myself with a firearm I do all my own maintenance and repairs to. :)
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This is the clay shooting forum ;-)

Fair enough though. Self-sufficiency is a wonderful thing. I tease some of my friends that people should not be allowed to eat meat unless you are prepared to put it on your plate yourself.
 
I grew u with shooting registered birds and hunting, but for the 35 or so years have not shot a registered bird.
I do however shoot trap and skeet pretty much every Thursday in the Summer , and as much as I can in the winter, but it's all with my hunting guns now , to keep in shape for hunting season.
Same thing for rifles, shot smallbore and fullbore, silhouette t center fire and rimfire provincially and nationally, but these days just shot to keep in shape for hunting.
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Main Focus is Steel, Paper and Clays.

(I have a DS100 in my back yard :) )

In the summer I shoot gophers. When I hunt quail , I go on a farmed hunt.

My biggest fear about hunting is taking an animal that is not legal or correct. So I choose not to hunt. I have gone with other hunters if a follow up shot is required :)
 
I'm a hunter. I sometimes shoot at the shotgun club but its just so god damn expensive. With the cost of shells, the drop in, and the cost of playing a round of sporting clays, then lunch, its easily a $100 day. I use to live in a rural area on Vancouver Island where I could go hunting after work or even before I go to work but now I live in this #### hole of Vancouver. Can't wait till I'm done with this city so I can go home. This is worse than jail to be honest. They should have a new sentencing in court for rural people where you have to live in the city of Vancouver.
 
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