Finding Peace with Short Range Hunting

Cal Sportsman ^ | 3/24/2017 | B Boddington

[w1n1]

I've gotten a lot of questions about where I stand on hunting and shooting from long distances, although I usually tend to stay out of these matters, because I figure that everyone has her or his own reasons to hunt.

People always have their own driving motivations and passions, and hunting is a personal experience. It is rooted in being alone in the wild and connecting to Mother Nature. This can be done no matter what weapon you choose to hunt with or how far you choose to shoot from, but for me hunting is all about the stalk and getting up close and personal with animals in their natural habitat.

Bowhunters often criticize rifle hunters because they don't get as close to the animal they are stalking before they are able to take a shot, but the same is now happening with traditional hunters and a technique that some in our sport are calling precision hunting.

HONESTLY HAVEN'T MADE up my mind on how exactly I feel about the new wave of long-distance shooters as hunters. I agree that hunters should be able to take long shots here and there when the conditions demand it; in some cases, a long shot may be your only shot. Open plains, for one. Read the rest of the short range hunting story here.

[DannyTN]

I’d like to find a short range hunting piece.

[riverrunner]

Unless you are hunting with a club or rocks your not a real hunter. /S/

This whole debate does nothing but divide the hunting community.

I use any legal method allow some game is killed at real close range other is shot at real long range.

[Alas Babylon!]

You multi-celled organisms don’t know REAL hunting!

NOTHING says real hunting like swallowing up another single-celled life form in it’s entirety.

You need to go back 600 million years to realize your ancestors hunted this way for several billion years!!!

Whippersnappers!

Signed
—Amoeba

[gundog]

Pay someone to write, and they will.

[riverrunner]

For sure