yobuck
Well-Known Member
Well Bigngreen we are venturing away from the original subject, but I guess that can be expected.
First ill respond to your grandkids statement by saying I have (grandkids) in their 30s
who also have kids old enough to hunt. So far, the only interest they have is being in
their room playing with a computer or iPhone. I have little doubt they might get excited
over having a drone also.
On the other hand, my grandkids have all been introduced to hunting, and none of them needed to be bribed with a cool gun in order to take to it. Wether or not they all stick with it for their lifetime remains to be seen.
That goes for a grand daughter also, now 16 who didn't need bribing with a pink gun.
They either have the desire or they don't, and in todays society, many of them don't.
But the best of luck to you with yours, regardless as to how you choose to approach it.
Now as for PA and wether or not the decision on semi autos was a good or bad decision.
Realize if you can that were talking about a highly populated eastern state, not the open spaces of Montana and other states with far less hunters. In some counties of PA, rifles aren't permitted at all for hunting, other than rimfires. And that includes some with a considerable amount of rural area.
Have you ever seen a pickup truck or even several of them stacked full of dead doe?
And truth be told, most of them shot by just a few of the partisipents of the hunt?
Do you have any friends with 10 and even 20 round magazines for their 760 Rem pumps?
Well I do, and they often emptied them when a herd of doe came out of a drive within range of them on doe days. Now they all got tagged and used, (at least the dead ones), but not all of the tag owners were on the hunt.
We will never be able to kill enough deer to be worried about it was their claim.
But they did, it took awhile, but they did, in places that now have hunters complaining about no deer.
But guys like Waynzee will say that's the PGCs fault for issuing too many doe tags.
We now have a full week of rifle doe season, not counting the very long archery season where does are always an option.
We also now have the DCNR issuing doe tags in designated areas, (they) not the PGC,
think has too many deer. And you can get all of them you want, and they really cant
control what area you shoot them in. We now see large groups of hunters during the 2nd week doing organized drives. They have no connection to the area as for camps, many are Amish, just there for a day of deer slaughtering. Next year they will go wherever they can secure the most doe permits.
So while you might be envisioning a hunter on private land in your area of Montana while carrying a rifle of his choice, also try to envision what I just described, that is if you were listening.
First ill respond to your grandkids statement by saying I have (grandkids) in their 30s
who also have kids old enough to hunt. So far, the only interest they have is being in
their room playing with a computer or iPhone. I have little doubt they might get excited
over having a drone also.
On the other hand, my grandkids have all been introduced to hunting, and none of them needed to be bribed with a cool gun in order to take to it. Wether or not they all stick with it for their lifetime remains to be seen.
That goes for a grand daughter also, now 16 who didn't need bribing with a pink gun.
They either have the desire or they don't, and in todays society, many of them don't.
But the best of luck to you with yours, regardless as to how you choose to approach it.
Now as for PA and wether or not the decision on semi autos was a good or bad decision.
Realize if you can that were talking about a highly populated eastern state, not the open spaces of Montana and other states with far less hunters. In some counties of PA, rifles aren't permitted at all for hunting, other than rimfires. And that includes some with a considerable amount of rural area.
Have you ever seen a pickup truck or even several of them stacked full of dead doe?
And truth be told, most of them shot by just a few of the partisipents of the hunt?
Do you have any friends with 10 and even 20 round magazines for their 760 Rem pumps?
Well I do, and they often emptied them when a herd of doe came out of a drive within range of them on doe days. Now they all got tagged and used, (at least the dead ones), but not all of the tag owners were on the hunt.
We will never be able to kill enough deer to be worried about it was their claim.
But they did, it took awhile, but they did, in places that now have hunters complaining about no deer.
But guys like Waynzee will say that's the PGCs fault for issuing too many doe tags.
We now have a full week of rifle doe season, not counting the very long archery season where does are always an option.
We also now have the DCNR issuing doe tags in designated areas, (they) not the PGC,
think has too many deer. And you can get all of them you want, and they really cant
control what area you shoot them in. We now see large groups of hunters during the 2nd week doing organized drives. They have no connection to the area as for camps, many are Amish, just there for a day of deer slaughtering. Next year they will go wherever they can secure the most doe permits.
So while you might be envisioning a hunter on private land in your area of Montana while carrying a rifle of his choice, also try to envision what I just described, that is if you were listening.
