Handgun Kill Pic Thread "Hunting"

[countryrebel]

Wildlife biologist are the ones who preach all that crap to everyone.Just like when they said we need to bring back the wolves,now they are killing the elk and deer and domestic animals left and right.But they got there degree in in California,so that explains everything, again.

 

[mec]

Jared Schmidt

Louis Ellis

 

[Geno]

I'll get a picture up of the Russian Boar that I shot with my Encore pistol, with a 15" barrel chambered in .444 Marlin. I have to wait for my daughter to get back with my digital camera, so I can take a pic of the old 35MM picture.

In the mean time, here's my Colt 1911 that I used to take a Russian Boar.

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[MCgunner]

I studied Wildlife Biology at Texas A&M in the early 70s. Back then, it was beginning, there were two basic types of students. There were the outdoor, country boy types like me interested in true conservation and wildlife MANAGEMENT and there were an increasing number of preservation types, what I used to call "eco freaks". Many of them were the bird watcher types. They HATED hunting and no amount of preaching "management" to them by traditional methods mattered. Many would gripe about Texas Parks and Wildlife funds going to game management while non-game species were ignored. I'd get in heated debates with some of 'em over this. I mean, as a hunter, IT'S MY MONEY you wanna waste on dickey bird species, marsh wrens, whatever. And, if you end hunting, the money dries up for all species!

I went on to make money and work in for the enemy (in their eyes), running an environmental lab for a major chemical company. I was a fisheries guy, an "aquatic type", and had a lot of chemistry as a background. I know one grad student that was one of the "eco freak" types, ran a bird banding crew I worked on part time while in college. He and I didn't get along too well due to this riff in ideals. He got me fired from that banding crew after a year, but I was about fed up with him, anyway. When I was out of school and had been working about 4 years for Dow Chemical in a salaried position making good money, I saw this guy on the news griping about some bayou in Houston or something. I found out through the grape vine he'd gotten his masters and went to work for his old man who owned a couple of auto parts stores. ROFLMAO! He was big in the Audubon club (haven for bird watchers, but he was a volunteer) and was speaking on their behalf on the news, his 15 minutes of fame, I guess. He was typical, all idealistic and not an ounce of realistic.

Anyway, I'm sure in the ensuing years, the "eco freaks" have taken over the profession or at least have become more powerful. I know TP&W does a lot more non-game management now days and I fear they might be taking over Austin at the political levels. I don't know this because I'm long since out of any grapevines, but I'm just speculating.

 

[Geno]

Mcgunner:

Did you know that TC Arms' Contender still holds the world record for pistol accuracy? The group was fired at 500 yards with iron sights, and measured 1" X 3.5"!!!

By the way, that is one fine looking Contender!

Doc2005

 

[MCgunner]

Wowsers! IRON SIGHTS!? Guy has a lot better eyes than me, LOL!

Thanks. I'm sorta a contender nut now days when it comes to hunting. And, I need the scope. My eyes were never that good and ain't on the upswing, can tell ya that. LOL Missed a hog this year with my .357 Blackhawk at about 65 yards, shoulda took the contender, oh, well. LOL

 

[ArmedBear]

Wildlife biologist are the ones who preach all that crap to everyone.

Uh, right. I'll make sure to write a letter to my DF&G that they shouldn't be acquiring that land that I hunt on, or doing anything they now do to conserve or restore the game population. Those wildlife biologists really suck.

And of course, none of them hunt, either. Those trophies on the wall are fake, and the bird dogs are just for show. I'll write letters to DU, QU, PF, RMEF, and anyone else I can think of, and tell them that their damned wildlife biologists should piss off.

Willful ignorance doesn't make you superior. It makes you a hick stereotype that's an easy target for anti-hunters. That hurts all of us, and it's nothing to be proud of.

 

[MCgunner]

Well, if it weren't for modern game management and game laws, there'd be no wildlife left to enjoy for us. I thank people like my hero, Teddy Roosevelt, and the sportsmen of the early 20th century for this. We cannot just leave it alone. We've over-populated our planet, dangerously close to carrying capacity even with modern agriculture, and, of course, subsistence hunting is long since history in most of the world, Alaska not-with-sanding. And, even in Alaska, we have to manage game to keep from impacting them negatively. Game management his here, has been for nearly 100 years, and it's here to stay by necessity.

The wolf was here before we were. They have a place as an apex preditor in nature. They take cattle from time to time, that's true. The rancher has the right to take animals after their stock. It's not "our" deer and elk they feed on, after all and there is no reason wolf populations cannot be managed just as we manage other game species, if the tree hugger types can be side lined in the debates. Some how, though, killing wolves has become worse than Ted Bundy's murders. There might be problems here in the perception of what exactly is "management", but don't condemn the people who SAVED elk and deer from extinction for you in the first place.