I feel safe to hunt here in Pa. unless they pass the bill that will allow semi auto rifles during deer season. then I might have to think twice about it. that scares me.

I thought about this a few hours ago. If I wear an orange vest when I already have an orange hat and facemask during gun season does that mean I feel safe or not? I felt safe but just being cautionary.

Indiana did allow high powered rifles on private land and I was sitting on a huge cut cornfield on private land. Some idiot with an AR-10 who used to shoot 5 times with a shotgun and never hit the deer was on my mind. I didn't worry about a vest on federal ground just wore a hat.

Most all of my close calls have been with a shotgun and either Rabbit or bird hunting.

My thinking is things are little different out west, you shoot at movement and come close to a hunter, you are very likely to get some return fire. Most hunters tend to be pretty darned careful.

If some guy comes close and apologizes I always let it go. If he tries to play type A personality on me he gets a warning, next time I shoot back, I don't miss.

Funny story about that, my Mom had dropped me off Rabbit hunting with my Beagles and we had a time and place scheduled for her to pick me up. I was walking down a dirt road maybe a hundred yards from her truck when some guy shot me in the calf from behind. I hobbled a few steps and sat down trying to inspect the bullet hole. My Mom comes walking up and asks me what's wrong, told her, she looks up the road at the fool standing there holding the rifle and she heads straight for him. The guy made the biggest mistake of his life and went type A personality on her, she hit him so hard he almost completely swapped ends. She grabbed up his rifle, unloaded it and then smashed it on a rock. Don't mess with Mama Bear or her Cubs. Then the fool called the Police, he was charged with reckless endangerment.

People who shoot at movement and don't look behind what they are shooting at, have no place hunting IMO. And if they won't take a friendly suggestion, they need an attitude adjustment.

As far as I know you could hunt with a auto loading shot gun or a rifle in the rifle zones since auto loaders were invented. I can not ever remember a hunter shot by another hunter where the fault was the use of a auto loader.


No I do not own even one auto loader not even a 22lr one, it is just a fact that it isn't the auto loader that is unsafe.




Al