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Predator Hunting => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Buckwheat on October 12, 2014, 01:14:49 PM

Title: Time is a changing
Post by: Buckwheat on October 12, 2014, 01:14:49 PM
When I was learning to hunt and shoot it was just a different world.
I guess I am just getting to old.
But the last couple of times at the range just seamed terrible to me as far as hunting is concerned.
Groups of guys show up show up with AR type rifles in every caliber you can think of. Not one of them is realy interested in hunting. Just interested in letting lead fly at man type targets and bragging of there so called good shots. One target was of the president of the USA.
Now I know you can laugh at that but what I an saying is things changed. Shooting at men targets was on police ranges not at a hunting clubs.
When I was learning to hunt and shoot the last thing we would have shot at is man targets. That type of target would not have not even entered any of my friends minds. Today it seams required.
There are only a few shooters with bolt action rifles at the club shooting on any weeken. They always seam to be working up loads for hunting and are looking for as small a group as possible.
Yep, I just must be old.  I like the small groups, one bullet at a time in a one inch target dots. Maybe i have it all wrong and i should just go and get some Zombi targets. 

Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Misterjake23 on October 12, 2014, 02:03:23 PM
Its a new breed out there.  The "one shot, one kill" mentality is almost unheard of with the new generation of shooters.  Now is "how many rounds can I put down range and how fast can I do it.  I get asked all the time about what gun to buy for personal and home protection.  I'm Amazed at how many people want to shoot big calibres.  I alawys say it's not the size of the round, but rather where it's placed on the target.  Even a small .22cal can bring down a large animal if it's put in the right place.
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: YoteSki on October 12, 2014, 04:48:12 PM
your both absolutely right I'm 27 yrs old.  maybe i'm just weird but i have no interest in owning any kind of AR.  just because, i was raised just as you had said mister jake, "one shot. one kill." .30-.06 for deer and i have my 12g turkey gun for home protection.  i prefer archery hunting myself.  just because the other people in the woods ruin gun hunting for me.  they have the mentality if its brown its down and shoot a box of shells at it, wound it, and never find it.  your right the mentality of the world is spray and pray. 
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 12, 2014, 08:20:45 PM
 ??? ??? Even when I was in the service we didn't have body targets.....just circles with bulls eyes....some of those bulls eyes were 5 feet across as we were shooting 5" rounds at it about 15 miles away.....but even small arms were just circles...
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: takemrarely on October 15, 2014, 04:48:13 AM
And when you were growing up, your video game was PONG.

You can't play Grand Theft Auto all day long and then want to shoot a stationary 1 inch orange dot....(unless someone tells you that it is a Zombie).......
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: jaspr1 on October 17, 2014, 06:52:03 AM
 ;D Ernie yes your getting to old  >:(.....sorry...... ;D  Goose their talking about current events   ??? not the Napolean cannon you shot during the Civil War... ::)......Jeubal Early isn't coming back to Chambersburg anytime soon ,so you can put it away  :P ........ 8)
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 17, 2014, 08:03:14 PM
 >:( >:( >:( >:( Shucks!!  :P :P :P
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Buckwheat on October 17, 2014, 09:15:26 PM
takemrarely
I am bummed out.
Pong was not the game when I was growning up.
I was an adult when pong cam out. It was the only game I could beat my kids at until they got older. LOL
jasper just shut up!
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: takemrarely on October 18, 2014, 05:15:44 AM
Don't be bummed out....the video industry continues to cater to all audiences.....(my favorite at the moment is Tiger Woods golf)....you'll find a niche......
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: jaspr1 on October 18, 2014, 05:23:53 AM
 :-X
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 18, 2014, 06:09:50 PM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D He sure put the clamp on you!!  :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: jaspr1 on October 19, 2014, 06:30:59 AM
 :(  Terrible way to treat a fledgling Guru  :o...............and who asked for your 2cents anyway... :P.... 8).....You didn't notice my status change or lack there of... ::) ::)...did you?... :o :o :o when a new Guru moves into the neighborhood the OLD curmudgeon ones  ;) get testy  >:( >:(.............. 8)
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Buckwheat on October 19, 2014, 06:52:16 AM
 O crap it is to early to wake up to this Guru stuff.
I think it is time to have a new level.
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 19, 2014, 06:55:41 AM
 :o :o :o Hump  ??? ??? ??? Guessin someone lent him the gift of gab for awhile  :P :P :P :P Ernie tell him again!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D "jasper just shut up!"
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Buckwheat on October 19, 2014, 07:18:32 AM
 You poke a new Guru with a stick, I am not going to until there is a new level.
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 19, 2014, 10:48:56 AM
 >:( >:( >:( Stick..nah...a club wouldn't do any good either  ::) ::) ::) ::) GURU jaspr1 you will be in the presence of an honored group  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[  we'ns talk alot and sometimes actually know what we are talking about, sometimes theory, sometimes opinion, and a whole lot of BS....oh I'm speaking of myself on the last one :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: jaspr1 on October 19, 2014, 05:14:12 PM
 :) Now in the rarefied air of Guruship, I had a vision.... ::) I believe a new level might just be the ticket!!! ;D Yes, as in Buckwheat Guru SE (Super Exalted)  :) sounds pompous enough  ::) and Goose Guru LE (Limited Edition) ;) because we want to limit ourselves to 1 goose honking and well you know, messing up the place  :P :P just sayin....lol... 8)
Title: Re: Time is a changing
Post by: Pa Goosehntr on October 19, 2014, 07:49:07 PM
 ;D ;D ;D  Goose Guru LE (Limited Edition) I like that ;) ;) ;)