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Assault Rifles for Hunters? (Zumbo goes mad)
Remington Country website ^ | 16 FEB 2007 | Jim Zumbo

Posted on 02/18/2007 11:32:57 AM PST by xsrdx

As I write this, I'm hunting coyotes in southeastern Wyoming with Eddie Stevenson, PR Manager for Remington Arms, Greg Dennison, who is senior research engineer for Remington, and several writers. We're testing Remington's brand new .17 cal Spitfire bullet on coyotes.

I must be living in a vacuum. The guides on our hunt tell me that the use of AR and AK rifles have a rapidly growing following among hunters, especially prairie dog hunters. I had no clue. Only once in my life have I ever seen anyone using one of these firearms.

I call them "assault" rifles, which may upset some people. Excuse me, maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity. I'll go so far as to call them "terrorist" rifles. They tell me that some companies are producing assault rifles that are "tackdrivers."

Sorry, folks, in my humble opinion, these things have no place in hunting. We don't need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them, which is an obvious concern. I've always been comfortable with the statement that hunters don't use assault rifles. We've always been proud of our "sporting firearms."

This really has me concerned. As hunters, we don't need the image of walking around the woods carrying one of these weapons. To most of the public, an assault rifle is a terrifying thing. Let's divorce ourselves from them. I say game departments should ban them from the praries and woods.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; guns; secondamendment
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To: SampleMan
Sporting to me equates to "less lethal", which is less humane.

Which is why I hunt deer with claymore mines.

Kind of like cops and photo radar.

Sporting? Phhttttttttt!

201 posted on 02/19/2007 8:08:18 AM PST by Dinsdale
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; wku man; SLB; ...
Ouch! Check out what just appeared on Remington's website (the green circle with the exclamation point). That sure was quick. Looks like Mr. Zumbo is hating life as of now.

I think it would be better to have him get an epiphany, though (with a little help from his friends in the firearms community), and then let him preach it from here on.

We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

...And a tip of the hat to TNS for the tip.. !.

202 posted on 02/19/2007 8:20:40 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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To: Joe Brower
"We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own..."

If Dumbo Zumbo is that misguided, he's NOT "one of our own". And just maybe he'll be an object lesson to the OTHER "we're just hunters, we don't REALLY support the Second Amendment" types.

These fools don't realize that once the gun-grabbers succeed in demonizing semi-autos, they'll be after the bolt-actions next.

203 posted on 02/19/2007 8:27:39 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Joe Brower

Wow!


204 posted on 02/19/2007 8:29:43 AM PST by Vision ("Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you your heart's desires." Psalm 37:4)
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To: Joe Brower

The power of the internet. (and FR!)


205 posted on 02/19/2007 8:30:20 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Joe Brower

WOW.

I've been getting emails all day today from friends in the outdoor publishing/manufacturing business about this. What a shakeup.

Thanks for the ping.


206 posted on 02/19/2007 8:31:58 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: El Laton Caliente
Thanks for that info--I stand corrected!

I knew they had semi-auto shotguns, (I own one), but was unaware of the rifle. I note they did not waste any time dissociating themselves from Mr. Zumbo, either. Maybe he will reconsider his position.

207 posted on 02/19/2007 8:33:09 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Joe Brower; All
There's a hilarious Zumbo photoshop thread over at www.ar15.com. I stole this there.


208 posted on 02/19/2007 8:33:21 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Wonder Warthog
I hear what your saying. In my travels, and much to my chagrin and dismay, I have found that the endless and relentless agitprop against firearms over the last thirty years or so has had an incremental effect on even those minds who we would consider invulnerable.

It's a working example of Goebbel's aphorism that "if you say black is white and white is black long enough, people will come to believe it". We like to think of our minds, the human mind, as some powerful and rock-steady construct, but from my experiences, I can only say, "If only". History, past and present, makes it clear that the human mind is nowhere as rigid and clear a thing as we'd like to think, and unfortunately can and is molded like clay.

Thirty years of absorbing the leftmedia crapola, the insidious power of incrementalism and the agenda behind it being what it is, could very well have "programmed" Zumbo much more than he could ever have realized until he inadvertantly stepped in it, big time.

209 posted on 02/19/2007 8:34:01 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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To: Joe Brower
We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

Dunno 'bout that. We could look up and find a Zumbo in 'our ranks' being used by the grabbers as 'a noted hunting authority' advocate to outlaw those firarms he doesn't personally like.

Now more than ever, we need to be proactive in our identitfication of those within who would sell us out...

210 posted on 02/19/2007 8:34:09 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
That is absolutely hilarious!
211 posted on 02/19/2007 8:35:08 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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To: Joe Brower

212 posted on 02/19/2007 8:36:42 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Joe Brower

Remington knows where their money comes from..... Guys like us.


213 posted on 02/19/2007 8:37:17 AM PST by B4Ranch (You're in America now. Here we speak English.)
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To: Joe Brower

Applause for Remington.


214 posted on 02/19/2007 8:47:28 AM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "These lefties are terminally inebriated on dishonesty." The Nuge)
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To: B4Ranch

Us womin, too. ;o)


215 posted on 02/19/2007 8:49:11 AM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "These lefties are terminally inebriated on dishonesty." The Nuge)
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To: Joe Brower

That was one career ending blog, kind of a Dixie Chicks moment!


216 posted on 02/19/2007 8:53:05 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Joe Brower
We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

IMO He has nothing in common with me.

He admits on his own blog that he is:

"...totally ignorant about these types of guns."

Then why didn't he just keep his mouth shut?

The Brady Campaign is already quoting him:
Even Remington's top gun writer agrees on Assault Weapons

And yes, the above blog does belong to the Brady Campaign:
Brady Campaign Launches MySpace Page

This man would be better employed by the Brady Campaign or the Violence Poverty Center.

217 posted on 02/19/2007 8:53:47 AM PST by holymoly ("A lot" is TWO words.)
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To: Joe Brower

PW3ND


218 posted on 02/19/2007 9:07:30 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: holymoly
Please see my post# 209.

I'm not making excuses for the guy -- as I've already said myself, he's already done damage. But, just an observation.

219 posted on 02/19/2007 9:16:36 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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To: coloradan
Y35, 1nd33d.
220 posted on 02/19/2007 9:17:04 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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