Rifles....are they cheating
01-30-2002, 10:38 AM
#41
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mound MN USA
Posts: 39
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
Is a rifle cheating? Good question. Would you concider a bow to be cheating compaired to a spear or a spear to a rock? Its all hunting. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages. Can't we all just get along? Next year maybe I should leave my bow at home and go out with a knife.
01-30-2002, 01:21 PM
#42
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenix Az Phoenix, AZ USA
Posts: 459
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
Very good point bulletbob. You could also say using a combound bow is cheating compared to using a tradional bow. Hunting is hunting. As long as you are doing it in a legal manner, I don't care what you use.
01-30-2002, 08:13 PM
#43
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Rifles....are they cheating
Well PA, it's been a pretty tame response.
I wonder if I went to a Spear Hunting forum if they would be so understanding towards us bowhunters.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
I wonder if I went to a Spear Hunting forum if they would be so understanding towards us bowhunters.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
01-30-2002, 08:49 PM
#44
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Burleson TX USA
Posts: 6,455
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
all these response with all different answers
and here I was on the understanding that guns where invented for people who cant use a bow <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
and here I was on the understanding that guns where invented for people who cant use a bow <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
01-30-2002, 11:50 PM
#47
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: A shack in Arkansas
Posts: 2,029
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
There is a lot of egos blowing up here! i hunt with whatever gives me an advantage. i am out there to enjoy and put venison in my freezer. and yes , a set of hardened bone on my wall. and to the "shotgun only" proposal ,well like c. heston says it " from my cold dead hands"!
01-31-2002, 04:25 AM
#48
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mechanicsville, Va.
Posts: 117
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
Its all hunting, each offers it own challenge, each offers its own level of risk for injury or death. I cannot believe this is even being debated. I feel a "holier than thou" attitude from "some" people who "exclusively" bow hunt. Just like the some "trophy" hunters who look down on the average joe killing a spike buck or doe.
If its within the law....by all means do it. If its within the law and you dont do it, that is fine also, just dont put people down who do it.
De. doesnt have a rifle season (state is too flat). But if it did, Id do it cause that would give me another shot at putting some venison in my freezer.
AllenC
If its within the law....by all means do it. If its within the law and you dont do it, that is fine also, just dont put people down who do it.
De. doesnt have a rifle season (state is too flat). But if it did, Id do it cause that would give me another shot at putting some venison in my freezer.
AllenC
01-31-2002, 05:36 AM
#49
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 262
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
I think everybody would agree that its easier to kill a deer with a rifle than with a bow, but I dont see that "fairness" has any place in a discussion of hunting by legal methods. If you introduce that concept, then is it fair to use a climbing treestand? or steel broadheads, or a compound bow, or any device made by modern technology. Maybe it would be more fair to say that as hunters we should go out butt naked and make our own equipment without any tools other than what we can fabricate with our own hands. It still wouldnt be fair though, we have more brain power than a deer.
01-31-2002, 10:32 AM
#50
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baltimore MD USA
Posts: 96
RE: Rifles....are they cheating
The iron sight rifle shooters think a scope sighted rifle is cheating
The shotgun hunters think all the rifle hunters are cheating
The compound bow hunters think the shotgun hunters are cheating
The traditional bow hunters think the compound bow hunters are cheating
The spear chuckers think all the bowhunters are cheating
The deer wrestlers think.... well, OK, now I'm getting a little carried away...
The shotgun hunters think all the rifle hunters are cheating
The compound bow hunters think the shotgun hunters are cheating
The traditional bow hunters think the compound bow hunters are cheating
The spear chuckers think all the bowhunters are cheating
The deer wrestlers think.... well, OK, now I'm getting a little carried away...