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Old 10-02-2004 | 06:29 AM
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Steven Ashe
 
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Default RE: Magnum snobbery?

I usually try to keep my mouth shut, concerning another man's equipment, unless he ask for my opinion. That said, I believe that we all have a serious responsibility to make every effort to get a quick, clean kill. This fact has become much more an issue, since the vast majority of us are no longer subsistance hunters. Certainly, when the American Indians drove a herd of buffalo off of a cliff, in order to get jerky for winter, one would've been hard pressed to illicit any pity over the buffaloes' suffering, from those people, as they gathered meat for survival. Such is not the case today. Most of us know what we need to put an animal down and give him a quick, near painless death. It is not sporting to use less, simply to have a brag. No one but the hunter can judge his own skill and/or the firearm used, or call the shot.
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