Are we really hunting?

[rodney482]

Now we are equating legal things I don’t like with Poaching. Ok.

Who said anything about poaching. In my state the youth get to shoot bucks w a rifle in Sept... before Archery even starts.

 

[207North]

Wasnt aware any youth rifle season started in September.

In that case this applies.

No the grown men being jealous is more of it. It’s wasn’t that way growing when I was a kid is always the argument.

 

[WoolOverAll]

This is venturing into real no true Scotsman territory and only serves divides us. If you legally fill your tags, you are hunting.

 

[3325]

Who am I to say what is real “hunting” and what is not?

For example: One thing I can’t quite get on board with is “long range hunting,” as the term long range is usually understood these days. I used to think I was a competent long range shooter, because I had done a fair amount of shooting in the 600 yard neighborhood in military and police sniper schools. But when someone says “long range” days, they seem to mean something around 1000 yards, if not further; 600 yards is not long range anymore. But who am I to say they’re not really “hunting?”

Likewise, if you’re setting in a tree with a crossbow, who am I to say you’re not hunting?

I like what used to be called “still hunting,” although I don’t hear that term used much anymore. To me this has always been ground hunting, moving slowly and quietly, with shots coming from point blank to about 300 yards. But not everyone will agree with me that this is somehow the pure way.

Wasn’t there some outrage on social media a few years ago over someone who made a spear kill? To my way of thinking, that’s about as hunting as hunting can get, yet it was controversial. The bambi crowd was outraged for obvious reasons, and some hunters thought it risked a less than quick kill and thus made the hunting community look bad.

This question will never be answered to the satisfaction of all.

 

[Will_m]

I think to be fair is to describe it as the deliberate action with intent to kill.

Everything else is about sporting, not hunting.

Flying a thermal drone around, bait, spotlighting, whatever, is hunting.

In the most distilled state, hunting is about killing. Plain and simple.

 

[KurtR]

yeah when you butt up against property owned by the Amish and all 12 of their kids are out there with rifles in September killing off all the bucks ... has nothing to do w jealous its complete BS...

Why is it bs because the kids get to hunt before you do? Seems that a problem with your state regs get it changed so they can just shoot does if the bucks matter to you that much

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Why is it bs because the kids get to hunt before you do? Seems that a problem with your state regs get it changed so they can just shoot does if the bucks matter to you that much

I don’t know where he is located, but in Virginia the youth day is one day at the end of September and requires an adult with each child.

If some state is letting kids run around unsupervised with deer rifles while the leaves are still on the trees, the 80’s child in me says “NBD” and the sober adult says, “please let me know so I can avoid that state!”

 

[Rich M]

I don’t know where he is located, but in Virginia the youth day is one day at the end of September and requires an adult with each child.

If some state is letting kids run around unsupervised with deer rifles while the leaves are still on the trees, the 80’s child in me says “NBD” and the sober adult says, “please let me know so I can avoid that state!”

Things are definitely different these days. As always - we color stuff based on our own experiences. I started in about 1978 and was shooting a 45# compound bow - was 8 going on 9. Shot 30-06 during rifle and hated it, still do all these years later. Used to hunt solo - leave camp at first light, be back around dark. Those were the rules. Then the states tarted changed the ages - home state went to 12 when I was going on 11 and adjacent states to 15. Never could understand that stuff but lost a year due to some new law.

Love kids hunting - just think that it is up to mom and dad, not the state to make it happen.

No-one needs special seasons except the handicapped and mobility impaired. Everyone who can walk and fill out the paperwork can apply for a tag or buy a license. Those having difficulty can have some help.

 

[grfox92]

I often revisit threads days after the first time I viewed them. I often wonder to myself how the threads got to where they got. This is one of those threads.

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