Poodleshooter
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A few weeks back I had a conversation with a relative who is a flyfisherman. He showed a certain amount of disdain towards guys who needed spinning tackle when salmon fishing. He also expressed satisfaction that certain areas were now marked off limits to anyone but flyfisherman. After this discussion, I began to think about how this applies to hunting. I've run into more than a few hunters who only hunt with flintlocks, or only use stick bows, and feel that anyone who hunts otherwise is not worthy to be in the field. Even in hunter safety class, it was stressed that the "ideal" hunter was the guy who only took trophies and passed up the runty spike bucks or does. My worry is that someday hunting will become like fishing, where only certain types of hunting are considered "sporting" and anything else is considered "unethical" or even made illegal. So what do you guys think-have the folks pushing the "ethical trophy sportsmen" or the "primitive hunting only" guys gone too far? Will the general public someday be conned into a slippery slope of "sportsmanship" that ends with us throwing rocks at deer?