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<blockquote data-quote="Jungleexplorer" data-source="post: 1016541" data-attributes="member: 56322"><p>I come from a family of survivalist where we use the smallest possible weapon to take the largest possible animal and compensate for the size of weapon with knowledge and skill. Both my father and grandfather were champion Navy shooters and taught me all the basics of how to shoot accurately. My father's philosophy was, one shot one kill, and he was hard core about it. As a child growing up, he would let me practice all I wanted, but would only give me one shot when I went hunting. To come back empty handed was a crime of unthinkable proportions and beyond contemplation. He was also a true conservationist and believed in the philosophy of, "Waste not, want not". As a result, I became an excellent woodsman, able to survive, hunt, fish, fish clean game and fish, build a fire with a single match and cook them all by myself at the age of six. I also became a very good marksman. </p><p></p><p>Range time is important, but by itself it does not make a person a better marksman or hunter. I know many people that spend a hundred times the amount of time at the range then I do and are still only mediocre shots. I know others that excel at the range but are horrible shots when it comes to hunting. I feel that there is more of a physiological aspect to hunting then just raw shooting skill. First, the is the respect God and His creation which He has Commanded to be" Good Stewards" of, (which means, do not be wasteful or kill senselessly). Second, there is the respect for the animal you are taking the life of, and because of this respect, you want to waste as little of the animal as possible. Third, there is the basic need to feel that we have the basic skill to survive and provide sustenance for ourselves. </p><p></p><p>Many modern hunters have none of these, and view hunting as a sport for the purposes of entertainment. They want not for anything, therefore they have no problems wasting. They take more pride in what they can mount on a wall then they do their skill as a marksman or precious meat of the animal. Every year I clean and dozens process deer that come of big game ranches, shot by people that arrived in jets to shoot penned up deer and left the valuable meat behind when they left. I give the meat away to people who need it and to woman's shelters and such. I do it so the meat will not go to waste and to help people, but it is hard for me though because, it is hard for me to see the senseless mangling of deer that was shot with a canon designed to kill an elephant. In most cases, because of the damage to the shoulders and the internal damage to organs and intestines, I have to throw the whole chest area and front shoulders away.</p><p></p><p>I guess because I process all my deer myself, I have an appreciation for head shot deer. It is so nice and clean to process a deer that is not chest shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jungleexplorer, post: 1016541, member: 56322"] I come from a family of survivalist where we use the smallest possible weapon to take the largest possible animal and compensate for the size of weapon with knowledge and skill. Both my father and grandfather were champion Navy shooters and taught me all the basics of how to shoot accurately. My father's philosophy was, one shot one kill, and he was hard core about it. As a child growing up, he would let me practice all I wanted, but would only give me one shot when I went hunting. To come back empty handed was a crime of unthinkable proportions and beyond contemplation. He was also a true conservationist and believed in the philosophy of, "Waste not, want not". As a result, I became an excellent woodsman, able to survive, hunt, fish, fish clean game and fish, build a fire with a single match and cook them all by myself at the age of six. I also became a very good marksman. Range time is important, but by itself it does not make a person a better marksman or hunter. I know many people that spend a hundred times the amount of time at the range then I do and are still only mediocre shots. I know others that excel at the range but are horrible shots when it comes to hunting. I feel that there is more of a physiological aspect to hunting then just raw shooting skill. First, the is the respect God and His creation which He has Commanded to be" Good Stewards" of, (which means, do not be wasteful or kill senselessly). Second, there is the respect for the animal you are taking the life of, and because of this respect, you want to waste as little of the animal as possible. Third, there is the basic need to feel that we have the basic skill to survive and provide sustenance for ourselves. Many modern hunters have none of these, and view hunting as a sport for the purposes of entertainment. They want not for anything, therefore they have no problems wasting. They take more pride in what they can mount on a wall then they do their skill as a marksman or precious meat of the animal. Every year I clean and dozens process deer that come of big game ranches, shot by people that arrived in jets to shoot penned up deer and left the valuable meat behind when they left. I give the meat away to people who need it and to woman's shelters and such. I do it so the meat will not go to waste and to help people, but it is hard for me though because, it is hard for me to see the senseless mangling of deer that was shot with a canon designed to kill an elephant. In most cases, because of the damage to the shoulders and the internal damage to organs and intestines, I have to throw the whole chest area and front shoulders away. I guess because I process all my deer myself, I have an appreciation for head shot deer. It is so nice and clean to process a deer that is not chest shot. [/QUOTE]
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