ORIGINAL: DougE
I don't think anyone is an anti-hunter just because they feel certain firearms should not be used in every hunting situation.Are you an ant-hunter if you support shotgun-only areas?How about supporting a fafety zone.Is that Obama like?What about supporting a regulation to plug shotguns to a three shell capacity?I personally don't think anyone should be banned from owning a semi and I don't think Coalcracker does either.However,I think their use should be seriously restricted.Multiple,rapid fire shooting is dangerous and unnnesasary.Restrict their use to a single shot and I feel they should eb legal to hunt with.Other than that,keep them on the range.
Thanks Doug, I have nothing against Semi autos and I'm sure they are a lot of fun to shoot. A few years ago I heard a neighbor shooting some kind of auto, he/they were shooting into his woods but his depth is only 30 or 40 yards. From his pole building toone of my tree standsat the edge of my field is only 162 yards, with this being pole timber I felt he shouldn't be shooting there, so next time I saw him outside I stopped to talk to him. He told me it was him and a friend doing the shooting, I suggested for safety reason for him to shoot on my property where we fire our deer rifles, which in the future he did. We shoot along the field and part way into my woods, total distance you can go is 125 yards, therewas a big old oak tree we shot into, a short distance behind was a neighbors open bank 30 or 40 feet high. If an accident would happen and you would fire higher than the bank, your bullet would most likely land in the SGL on the Blue Mountain, which is about a half mile away.
When I would pull MP duty during the Summer of the mid sixties, I sometimes stopped and watch the range for BAR's and the tanks using their machine guns, this I found very interesting and I'm sure others would. Even had to stop traffic for a show of firepower once. You'dreally enjoy watching them firing mortars(sp), machine guns and whatever else they were firing, hard to believe anythingcould live on the other side of the hollow.
When I trasferred to HDQT to be Detachment Clerk, we were asked if we would like to firea rocket launcher, naturally I said yes. I don't know if they make left handed ones, but I had to fire it righty. We were alowed three shots, which we duds and you could see them go because they were colored blue. To shorten this story, everytime I fired this thing it would hit my steel pot and cover up my eyes, they told me I never hit the old tank on the other side of the hollow. It was also fun to watch the other guys and see where their shot hit, just don't stand behind hm when he fires it. It sure was fun, but I wouldn't want to carry that thing around the woods looking for a deer.