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leveymg

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26. If you shoot it, you gotta eat it (unless it's made of clay).

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 01:12 PM

Feb 2013

I would ban "exotic sport shooting" such as lion hunts on private "reserves" in Texas.

Deer, duck, rabbits - bag your limit, but you've gotta carry it out with you or get a $10,000 plus fine and have your pieces confiscated.

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Are you cool with rural folks' hunting guns? [View all] Robb Feb 2013 OP

If you need more than 2 shots to shoot a duck, you are not hunting. liberal N proud Feb 2013 #1

Current federal limit of 3 safeinOhio Feb 2013 #2

I was recalling double barrel shot guns. liberal N proud Feb 2013 #5

For the most part? Hunting weapons aren't part of the problem, no. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2013 #3

? Crepuscular Feb 2013 #4

Rural folks? You have to be kidding, right? Coyotl Feb 2013 #6

Sounds like you don't live out in the country ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #10

I'm 30 miles from the store, in the middle of the National Forest, with bear, elk, salmon Coyotl Feb 2013 #15

I am about the same. No subsistence hunters left in most of CA due to bad laws ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #18

Subsistence hunting was VERY common in California during the Great Depression slackmaster Feb 2013 #19

What bad laws? Xithras Feb 2013 #32

come down to south Alabama, Mississippi or Arkansas ProdigalJunkMail Feb 2013 #20

Where in the hell do you live at to have such a WRONG idea about "rural folks"? cynatnite Feb 2013 #28

I hunt and fish for subsistence, garden and farmed too, forage, foray, etc. in rural USA, elsewhere Coyotl Feb 2013 #35

Your words...not mine. n/t cynatnite Feb 2013 #36

WTF are you talking about? Daemonaquila Feb 2013 #40

I'm talking about hunters being more than just "rural folks" Coyotl Feb 2013 #43

I'd be cool with them. So - how do you fairly distinguish jmg257 Feb 2013 #7

as long as they hunt critter and not people dembotoz Feb 2013 #8

Misleadingly facile. There's no division of rifles and shotguns into "hunting" and "non-hunting" Recursion Feb 2013 #9

I don't hunt, but I'm okay with it. HOWEVER the thing about hunting.... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #11

Not if you are hunting for subsistence guardian Feb 2013 #24

Vastly more relevant than Grandpa's duck gun, Grandpa is not part of the problem slackmaster Feb 2013 #12

Its a curious question wercal Feb 2013 #13

Funny, isn't it? Recursion Feb 2013 #14

We ARE actually talking about that. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #21

Let me expound wercal Feb 2013 #25

I know this is nit-picking, but..... NickB79 Feb 2013 #37

Let me introduce you to my friend, the goose gun: Erose999 Feb 2013 #42

I despise guns and hunting, but this is not the real problem. MoonRiver Feb 2013 #16

Most assault weapons are not powerful enough to hunt deer Recursion Feb 2013 #22

"rural folks' hunting guns" Chathamization Feb 2013 #17

Way, way, way too many Recursion Feb 2013 #23

If you shoot it, you gotta eat it (unless it's made of clay). leveymg Feb 2013 #26

Would that include guardian Feb 2013 #29

A little hot sauce and a matching wine does wonders, even for the gamiest meat. leveymg Feb 2013 #34

I sure hope grandpa would be eating roast duck after killing the ducks... Tikki Feb 2013 #27

If it's a game animal, that's illegal in every state NickB79 Feb 2013 #38

We need to move away from the NRA second amendment neighborhood nuclear superiority Agnosticsherbet Feb 2013 #30

Speaking as a rural folk, riqster Feb 2013 #31

only if they are regulated the way Japan regulates hunter's firearms.... mike_c Feb 2013 #33

I live amidst the national forest. longship Feb 2013 #39

My dad hunted. a la izquierda Feb 2013 #41