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In reply to the discussion: Many people in this country hunt to live [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(44,492 posts)This isn't the Oregon Trail.
You are hard pressed to find a place in this country that isn't within a half hour of some sort of grocery store. If I were to take your position at face value, you mean to say you think the money to buy ammo and guns in the hopes you *might* shoot something for dinner is better spent than using it to buy something that you know will be dinner?
I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit.
I'm not a hunter; it doesn't appeal to me. But I understand it, like fishing, can be viewed as a sporting/recreational activity and I don't think we need to get rid of it.
However, because it is a sport, and because reality is that very few people actually live off the land in this country and in this day and age, the prey ought to be given a sporting chance. No one needs a high capacity clip off their AR-15 to hunt. Nobody. Stick to your traditional guage shotgun with the buckshot ammo. And if you can't hit your prey within one or two shots, you've lost and the deer has won, and you need to accept that. Or take up golf.