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It seems most of the young folks I meet are into more/bigger/higher/faster/farther and ad executives sure buy into that; just look at the ads for fishing gear out there. My nephew brought along a guy on our last South Dakota trip; decent enough young fellow with a new lab and a new Benelli auto. He was amused at my old "double barrels" and my feeling that any bird that I can't hit with two shots deserves to fly on. I said that on a couple of rare occasions I'd been lucky enough to take two birds out of a rise. He said something like, "If a bunch of birds get up I want a chance at all of 'em!"
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We had a record 8-10 year period of gun prices and gun sales, good economy or bad economy. We are paying for some of that now. It is a buyers market, there just isn't a big impetus to get people buying after the previous gun boom.
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IMO that's the kind of attitude we should be discouraging in young folks. I think we were all raised with a respect for the game we hunt and to be ethical in all matters. Ethical means doing the right thing, even when nobody's looking. A lot of people see game animals and birds in an adversarial combatant vein rather than as an element in our heritage to be respected. .
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01-13-2020, 11:19 AM | #96 | |||||||
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But there ain't no telling how much death and ecological mayhem can be accomplished by three dudes with semi-automatics... in the name of sport. |
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01-13-2020, 11:21 AM | #97 | |||||||
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Now, the ones that break laws and violate ethical values should not be tolerated. But when each of us takes a young hunter on as a companion, we can most certainly present a model for them. What we do in their presence really does matter, and I could not agree more your assertion that how we act when no one is looking is the true measure of a hunter.
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01-13-2020, 11:24 AM | #98 | ||||||
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Very well stated Garry.
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I think ideally, all young sportsmen should start out with time spent looking at a campfire in the outdoors, with the cold at your back.
My hunting career started that way. The Eastern Arms break open single shot .410 was a formidable weapon, that I got to carry. That gun is on the wall in my office, as I type. |
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