bearkilr
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- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
on a soapbox for a second (hunting safety/ethics ect)
- Thread starter swinginberrys
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So they don't need to spend as much time scrutinizing the target, as someone that wants a specific animal.
It has been my experience that new hunters get far more excited than the experienced trophy hunters, that have already killed many animals.
skneub
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
My boy got a small wite tail yesterday
Its mom ran off lol (he never seen it)
I got some photos of grouse (we already had some grouse from saterday)
So we enjoyed looking at them instead of shooting them
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
This thread went from heartfelt concern to the same old hunter vs hunter, gun owner vs gun owner, ford vs chevy stuff. Nobody's interest is more pure, meat hunters have their issues and so do specimen hunters. As do Fords and Chevies. In the end we're all enjoying the same sport, wish we could act like it.
So just how many people are killed in Canada each year, as a result of those arrows. You could use only your thumbs to count them, and likely have two thumbs left over for the vast majority of years. Then compare that to the number of people that are shot by the people that mistake another human for a deer, because they don't take enough time to properly identify the target.
swinginberrys
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- Mallorytown
This!!
I enjoy a good debate and have a lot of respect for people that can agree to disagree. Unfortunately it seems next to impossible on CGN to have an adult discussion. That is why I tend to keep my posting to a minimum. Perhaps it's just a lot of misunderstanding (hard to always understand someone's intent via text or posts) or maybe it's trolls or people who only believe they are right and no one else has a valid opinion. Who knows.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
this is the biggest problem.
I have been "discouraging" those people from dictating 'ethics' to everyone else
Exactly, and people wearing orange are being killed every year by idiots that mistake them for game animals.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
While I agree with some of what you've said, how is it we do just fine out west without orange? Last one I know of in BC was an American client shot last year when a wounded grizzly charged and he was hit by accident. Orange wasn't going to help there. You'll have to forgive me but I have limited patience for "If it only saves one life" arguments when the problem is arguably not real, or it's a hunter education issue. Kuiu has yet to offer good mountain hunting outerwear in blaze orange as well.
swinginberrys
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- Mallorytown
This thread has turned into YouTube. You start off watching a video on how to fix a plumbing issue and an hour later you are watching videos about a guy that tapes things with packing tape.
I would be betting that more people are killed wearing orange than without, for the simple reason that the Eastern provinces and states require orange, and the West doesn't.
Like ibsaid in a previous post. The only thing thats going to solve it is to make the hunter education course more stringent. Have live fire, need to be able to hit a walking target at 100 yards. Have targets set up with people pictured in the background. Etc.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
ok lets keep the mandatory wearing of orange while hunting in the other thread.
We are making broad statements that the new hunter is more likely to shoot someone because he has never harvested game before. With that kind of thinking we must have all shot someone before we harvested our first animal. ( this is absolute bs )
I would like to see the stats that have been used to come up with this information !
I would like to see the stats that have been used to come up with this information !
