Coming to a state near you

[Gila]

Yesterday at the New Mexico DOW Game Commission meeting there was a comment by an anti-hunting group to ban long range hunting and thermal optics. What does thermal optics have to do with long range hunting? Also it wasn’t enough to take away our optics on the muzzleloader, now they are going for in-lines. I haven't heard anything about suppressors yet, but I suppose they will eventually come after those too.

 

[EdP]

To me it is all part of a left agenda to remove all reasons to own firearms. Put an end to hunting, one chip at a time, and there is no reason to own firearms for hunting. Pass laws that prohibit unlocked loaded firearms in the home and those firearms are worthless for self defense in the home. Again, no reason to own them. Chip by chip they will erode the 2A. We have to fight every incremental change if we want to win.

 

[Gila]

To me it is all part of a left agenda to remove all reasons to own firearms. Put an end to hunting, one chip at a time, and there is no reason to own firearms for hunting. Pass laws that prohibit unlocked loaded firearms in the home and those firearms are worthless for self defense in the home. Again, no reason to own them. Chip by chip they will erode the 2A. We have to fight every incremental change if we want to win.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Here we are getting attacked by several different ways at once. Now they want to reduce the success rates in most units because the herds are in decline. So they say, replace the first rifle hunt with a muzzle loader hunt. The thing is long range hunting isn’t even defined like they are going to bargain for yardage or something. Replace the existing muzzle loader hunts with primitive muzzle loader hunts. But then there are hunters in the room nodding their heads. I don’t get it.
The anti-hunters ride share between Santa Fe and Denver….nutz!

 

[mt terry d]

I'm sure our F&G agencies will fight like tigers for us.

 

[justin davis]

The antis are idiots. Don’t even know what they are talking about in regards to hunting or firearms. But bottom line is they want to attack everything and come after everything related to guns and hunting. They are trying to do a bill in Colorado that will ban the private purchase of barrels!!!!

 

[270-300]

Remember, ar 15s shoot the most powerful rifle cartridge on the planet, AND big scopes mean one can shoot anything at 1,000 yards just as easily as if it was 10 feet in front of them.

Wyoming had one of these bills in the state legislature last summer. I remember a lot of arguing about it on here. With year after year hunter decline for decades, i so no reason to cry over harvesting.

 

[Gila]

Remember, ar 15s shoot the most powerful rifle cartridge on the planet, AND big scopes mean one can shoot anything at 1,000 yards just as easily as if it was 10 feet in front of them.

Wyoming had one of these bills in the state legislature last summer. I remember a lot of arguing about it on here. With year after year hunter decline for decades, i so no reason to cry over harvesting.

With good science it used to be that hunts were managed to increase the success rates in order to reach a harvest target to stable the herds. Now it’s throw twice as many tags out there as they should and raise the difficulty level. That is if a resident here can even draw a tag at all, which is unlikely.