Hunting deer with a howitzer…

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PapaG said:
What a jerk.
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I agree. What really bothered me is down at the way end of the page, there's a little disclaimer that reads:

"THE ACTIVITIES SHOWN HERE ARE FOR VIEWER ENTERTAINMENT ONLY

NO ANIMALS WERE ACTUALLY HARMED OR INJURED IN ANY WAY "

I found this to be in very poor taste. I guess it's cool, but very unnecessary? What do I know.




 
Legal I don't know. He advises people to carry a shotgun fire it a few times and dump a bunch of empty shells all over the ground in proximity to the deer in case the game warden comes after you have hidden your cannon while you are recovering the deer.
 
I've seen hunts where they drive deer with dogs into a kill zone lined by hunters. At least this deer never knew what hit it. On my property the deer lay around in the yard like dogs or poke their head into the barn when I'm cleaning a rifle. I just let them be deer. It's no sport to kill something you could hit with a hammer.
 
Zygodactyl said:
I've seen hunts where they drive deer with dogs into a kill zone lined by hunters. At least this deer never knew what hit it. On my property the deer lay around in the yard like dogs or poke their head into the barn when I'm cleaning a rifle. I just let them be deer. It's no sport to kill something you could hit with a hammer.
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Unless you're after an easy meal!
 
I guess I’m an odd man out, I really don’t care how other people hunt or what they do it with. So long as the animal doesn’t suffer unnecessarily, and you aren’t damaging the population then go for it.

May not be my thing but that has nothing to do with the people doing it.
 
hawg said:
Hunting itself isn't sporting.
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It’s only in the last five hundred to a thousand years or so that humans decided that they should give their prey a sporting chance. Before that it was more important to provide meat for the family. Buffalo jumps aren’t real sporting either but the people involved were pretty happy to be gorging on Buffalo hump for a few days.
 
In Wisconsin "buck shot"is not legal, only single bullet or slugs in shotgun zones.
But I did finish off one that was wounded with an axe.
 
Jackrabbit1957 said:
So I guess giving the animal a sporting chance means jumping on it from a tree limb with a home made flint knife naked after sharpening your teeth and fingernails?.
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If your using a firearm it's really not a "sporting chance" no

But yes, I do sometimes hunt with a firearm, I just don't pretend the animal has a "sporting chance"
 
I was once attached to a Warthog Squadron as a Fld. Medic, once watched from the tower at target shooting with the 30MM cannon, some wild hogs were around the target area, was a good day for the targets, a bad day for hogs, 3 pilots earned their hog kill patches that day... Targets were good for another shooting day.
 
I don't hunt for antlers unless I need knife handles or something. If I see a doe first she's going down. I don't do trophies. I feel it belittles a deers life to hang his head or rack on a wall.
 
It's really rare in my area to be able to legally kill does, sometimes you can get an any deer permit but not often. So one is stuck hunting horns. I've got a muzzleloader whitetail hunt coming up in about 3 weeks, buck only. The whitetail here are about the size of a big dog, rarely going over 70 pounds dressed. They are very skittish and hard to find. I am in good area but it gets hit hard during the regular season.
 
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