AlongCameJones
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Ever since the 1990's, there seems to have been a steady progressive rise in taking deer and other game the trickier way: with archery equipment. I suspect this could be largely due to increasing human populations on American soil and evolving game regulations which seems to be putting an increasing damper on the use of modern rifles and gun seasons which seem to be getting shorter. I believe this new pursuit of animals Robin Hood style is more out of necessity than discovering new challenge. Surely some long-standing American gun hunters (especially gun-only hunters) will moan about these pesky competing bows and muzzle-loaders as well as shorter gun seasons. Some are undoubtedly mad about shotgun-only deer states to boot. Then there is this foul-smelling idiocy in Indiana deer laws requiring straight-wall cartridges to take deer with a rifle.
We all know how hostile automobile drivers can get toward bicyclists and motorcyclists on the streets that seem to get in the way or otherwise cause trouble. People who hunt deer with handguns, shotguns, bows and muzzle-loaders are folks who do it differently just as two-wheel transportation is much different from driving a "cage".
America has for a long time been traditionally a modern rifle culture when it comes to taking deer just as we are an mostly an automobile society.
Here's my question: Do any people here believe that changing hunting regulations are driving more people to non-rifle methods for harvesting deer and other big game out of pure legal necessity and not mainly just for the novel fun of trying something different? If game laws otherwise permitted modern rifle use all deer season long, with bottlenecked CF cartridges, in all 50 states, on both public and private lands, would there be much less interest in muzzle-loaders, archery and slug guns?
We all know how hostile automobile drivers can get toward bicyclists and motorcyclists on the streets that seem to get in the way or otherwise cause trouble. People who hunt deer with handguns, shotguns, bows and muzzle-loaders are folks who do it differently just as two-wheel transportation is much different from driving a "cage".
America has for a long time been traditionally a modern rifle culture when it comes to taking deer just as we are an mostly an automobile society.
Here's my question: Do any people here believe that changing hunting regulations are driving more people to non-rifle methods for harvesting deer and other big game out of pure legal necessity and not mainly just for the novel fun of trying something different? If game laws otherwise permitted modern rifle use all deer season long, with bottlenecked CF cartridges, in all 50 states, on both public and private lands, would there be much less interest in muzzle-loaders, archery and slug guns?
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