Excrement! My Bad-math is wrong. That’s 37 million guns in 37 months, one for 10 people. The good news is no one here pays attention.
The good news is no one here pays attention.
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Sadly that is true most of the time imo.
There’s so much bad math out there these days it might be contagious.
Since I’m typically late to threads, when I see a number off by a factor of 10, or similar, I usually scroll through the rest of the thread to see who caught it, or if the poster did. Simple courtesy. :-)
I do have a slightly OT comment and comment, tho’, esp. for the hunters. Game hunters, that is.
Yesterday I happened to go fishing for a couple hours at a pond on a local WMA (Wildlife Management Area). It was also the 1st day of dove season. Several dove fields are quite close to the pond. I have watched (and heard!) dove hunters around this pond on other Labor Day weekends in the recent past. But, yesterday not only was I surprised by how many hunters were about, I was even more surprised by the sheer volume of gunfire when birds were spotted. In the past, a bird would be flushed, and then a hunter would take a shot, maybe two. All shotguns, of course. Yesterday the majority of the firing seemed to be several shot semi-auto sequences. As if these guys could hardly hit anything and were trying to compensate by pulling the trigger as fast as they could. Sometimes 2 or 3 different sounding guns would open up almost simultaneously from (so far as I could tell) the same spot. All the firing was not far off, as the dove fields are all pretty close to this pond.
(IIRC, on 7 occasions in ~ 3 hours, shot rained down on “my side” of the pond. Twice a little caught the bank I was on, within a few feet away, tho’ none ever hit me. The splashes all looked to be from mostly vertical falls, but it was still a bit un-nerving.)
Now, I can easily understand why some homeowners would prefer semi-auto shotguns for home defense. We had a considerable discussion of the pro’s and con’s on FR, a little while back. But, is this the way hunting for smallish field birds is evolving? It seems like a lot of ammo expenditure for... doves.