>>Humor, Alan, humor! I forgot my smiley!
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>>Seriously, I don't like hunting PERIOD as a sport. You kill it to eat it, fine by me, but not for fun. I know that puts me in the minority of libertarian/conservatives but so be it. Heck, I don't even own a gun.
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>You're not alone. I own lots of guns but I'd never use them to shoot an animal that didn't have a gun. I figure if one is out to prove he's a great woodsman, go out with a pocket camera with no zoom and let's see how big the grizzly is in the frame. Picking off an elk at 600 yards with a Weatherby 308 and bushnell optics isn't more than marksmanship and you can do that on targets.
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Hitting an elk at 600 yards, in the wind and thermals of the Rocky Mtns is almost entirely luck. A 300 yard shot is hard enough! Now, as to eating what you kill - if you ever eat an elk steak, you'll probably start hunting.

As to hunting unarmed animals, animals get better rules than we get, none. We can only hunt during certain hours, in certain seasons, using certain arms. I only kill deer because they kill a lot of people every year, particularly in suicide missions on the highways....

I am a longstanding member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)<g>