I'm originally from the Porcupine hills...and couldn't agree more. I really miss baby gopher season as there is nothing like shotgunning for gopher families.
Random Killing after Hunting Season Ends
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I'm originally from the Porcupine hills...and couldn't agree more. I really miss baby gopher season as there is nothing like shotgunning for gopher families.
I realize we may have a troll in our midst however OP did bring up a pretty good topic. Many of our hunting enemies accuse us of wanton killing for fun only. Is this really true?
Like I said before - this may have been true of me at one time but not anymore. I say this with conviction. I won't even run over gophers on the road anymore yet I do hunt and kill big game and if my rancher buddy ever came to me and said coyotes were really causing a problem with his calves and showed me the evidence I might be tempted to help eradicate a few for him to protect his livestock or family pets.
Maybe it's a maturing process, I don't know. I do know that wanton killing for strictly fun (I don't include pest control in this) is more prone to happen to younger people from what I've seen.
Like I said before - this may have been true of me at one time but not anymore. I say this with conviction. I won't even run over gophers on the road anymore yet I do hunt and kill big game and if my rancher buddy ever came to me and said coyotes were really causing a problem with his calves and showed me the evidence I might be tempted to help eradicate a few for him to protect his livestock or family pets.
Maybe it's a maturing process, I don't know. I do know that wanton killing for strictly fun (I don't include pest control in this) is more prone to happen to younger people from what I've seen.
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I like hunting and I like meat...not sure I ever liked the killing.
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Buy the way nice chamois avatar, if i didnt know any better id say that looks like the South Island NZ.
Since when did varmint hunting become so socially unacceptable as to be labelled the precursor of psycopathy....WTF.
This is ridiculous, shooting varmints is a very good way to get trigger time and hone shooting skills in field settings, as opposed to doing all range time.
I allow for those who don't wish to partake, but to label those of us who enjoy lots of shooting and thinning the nuisance critters, as layed out by the game laws, as psycopaths, is nothing short of self righteous ignorance.
Varminting is a very well recognized sporting activity that generates millions of dollars and jobs every year. If it weren't for varmint hunters we wouldn't have 1/2 the calibers available today and virtually none under 27 cal. All the calibers below 27 were developed by varmint hunters for better range, higher velocities better BCs and better accuracy. The entire benchrest sport was spawned by varmint shooters saying "my fat barrelled varmint gun is more accurate than yours". And how many millions of dollars are spent on bench guns and accessories each year, producing jobs and economic good.
Varmint hunting as a sport has done more for the shooting sports than all of you morons standing on that moral pinnacle of yours calling us psycopaths. This is the most offensive thread I think I have ever wasted my time reading and posting on!!!!
This is ridiculous, shooting varmints is a very good way to get trigger time and hone shooting skills in field settings, as opposed to doing all range time.
I allow for those who don't wish to partake, but to label those of us who enjoy lots of shooting and thinning the nuisance critters, as layed out by the game laws, as psycopaths, is nothing short of self righteous ignorance.
Varminting is a very well recognized sporting activity that generates millions of dollars and jobs every year. If it weren't for varmint hunters we wouldn't have 1/2 the calibers available today and virtually none under 27 cal. All the calibers below 27 were developed by varmint hunters for better range, higher velocities better BCs and better accuracy. The entire benchrest sport was spawned by varmint shooters saying "my fat barrelled varmint gun is more accurate than yours". And how many millions of dollars are spent on bench guns and accessories each year, producing jobs and economic good.
Varmint hunting as a sport has done more for the shooting sports than all of you morons standing on that moral pinnacle of yours calling us psycopaths. This is the most offensive thread I think I have ever wasted my time reading and posting on!!!!
Since when did varmint hunting become so socially unacceptable as to be labelled the precursor of psycopathy....WTF.
This is ridiculous, shooting varmints is a very good way to get trigger time and hone shooting skills in field settings, as opposed to doing all range time.
I allow for those who don't wish to partake, but to label those of us who enjoy lots of shooting and thinning the nuisance critters, as layed out by the game laws, as psycopaths, is nothing short of self righteous ignorance.
Varminting is a very well recognized sporting activity that generates millions of dollars and jobs every year. If it weren't for varmint hunters we wouldn't have 1/2 the calibers available today and virtually none under 27 cal. All the calibers below 27 were developed by varmint hunters for better range, higher velocities better BCs and better accuracy. The entire benchrest sport was spawned by varmint shooters saying "my fat barrelled varmint gun is more accurate than yours". And how many millions of dollars are spent on bench guns and accessories each year, producing jobs and economic good.
Varmint hunting as a sport has done more for the shooting sports than all of you morons standing on that moral pinnacle of yours calling us psycopaths. This is the most offensive thread I think I have ever wasted my time reading and posting on!!!!
Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
I will amend my final sentence, after reading it again I find it to be too general and harsh. Last sentence should read.........I find SOME of the posts on this thread to be extremely offensive and I suspect ill thought out.
Please disregard original final sentence.
Please disregard original final sentence.
When we were kids with pellet guns if it moved we shot at it. That's growing up in the country.
Now that I'm older... That's just not what grown adults do. The odd bird or squrriel when ur out with the .22s but grown adults should not be blasting every crider. Even for a red neck it's odd.
Now that I'm older... That's just not what grown adults do. The odd bird or squrriel when ur out with the .22s but grown adults should not be blasting every crider. Even for a red neck it's odd.
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I myself have no problem with varmint hunting if there is a need for it. I think most of us have issue with some bubba loose in the bush with a gun, absolutely killing everything in sight, just for the sake of ending life. Fulfilling some kind of internal & disturbing 'enjoyment' only. Just as tikka pointed out, we should grow out of that phase, and hopefuly sooner rather than later in life. And I'm not talking about shooting gophers on cattle pasture or coyotes where they are unwanted. I am talking about some weirdo with a 12 gauge obliterating chickadees and squirrels just to see what damage he can do.
Today I went rabbit hunting and came back empty handed, just some nice outdoor walking exercise in the snow. And that porcupine I bumped into in the bush is still alive and well. And probably wondering what a**hole woke him up from his mid-afternoon nap in the sun!
Today I went rabbit hunting and came back empty handed, just some nice outdoor walking exercise in the snow. And that porcupine I bumped into in the bush is still alive and well. And probably wondering what a**hole woke him up from his mid-afternoon nap in the sun!
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I greatly encourage hunters to get out and hunt coyotes and gophers to keep the population in check................especially the coyotes. Coyotes are hard on the bird and fawn deer populations, furthrmore, shooting skills are enhanced with this type of activity.
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Same here, but after finding out I had to eat whatever I killed, I became a little more selective in my quarry.
Especially by the original poster..He must feel pretty sheepish after being busted, as he well should....
That was short lived for me, when my dad found a dead robin on top of his pheasant pen...After he broke my BB gun I knew better....People who aren't taught different, don't know any better!
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