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Hunter or Paper Puncher

Are you a Hunter or Paper Puncher?

  • Hunter

    Votes: 180 56.3%

  • Paper Puncher

    Votes: 140 43.8%
  • Total voters
    320
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longrange308: I came from a famliy of hunter down in OKLA, It was one of the things men and boys, I hunted with my DAD, BROTHER, UNCLES, but especialy my GRAND-PAW, and we hunter small game or birds several times a week. My grandparents prefered wild game, but raised hogs and cattle, and butchered there own and smoked there on hams and made there own savague. And as I grew up SAT & SUN were to go hunting some where. They were to poor for big game hunting and there was very few deer in OKLA at that time, I belive I was 12 befor I ever seen a live deer in the woods, and then only my GRAND-PAW really belived me and would go take a look. But we had that deer hanging behind the barn befor dark. I shot him with my GRAND-PAW`s 32 WIN SPECIAL. That was a very special day for me and I still remember it very well. I graduated from a boy to a young man that day, in the eyes of thoes that mattered most to me. I have lived a lot of places and SAT & SUN were days to hunting mostley small game, varmints, deer for me but I dreamed of hunting the wild country. But I just got old and my walks in the woods got shorter and less freequint, and my hunting spots became fewer and fewer, I turned 69 this year. I shoot a lot more paper now at the range, but I do it with a lot of old coger`s just like me. And we tell each other more stories and lie`s, than we pounch holes in paper. GOOD LUCK TO YOU: ken
 
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Jeff 12: I enjoyed your story about the coon dogs you have, I got to do a little coon hunting as a boy in OKLA growing up. My GRAND-PAW and 2 UNCLES had good coon dogs and really liked to hear them when on the track of a coon. But what caught my attention was you story about the little grill with the (( GIFT)) being able to pick pick up or touch a wild animal in the wild was highly respected and considered to have been blessed by the sprits where I was raised. And generally they were girls or young weman that were quite often belived in to beable to lay hands on a sick injuried person and heal them. I was prarie dog hunting in 1963 west of Wichita Ks about 30 miles, and we went in to a little town to eat lunch. I had no more than parked my truck and steped up a very high curb in front of the cafe, and I saw and heard people yelling and jumping of the sidewalk or running in to the stores. And that is when I saw that little girl she was maby 10 or 12 and she was walking right down the sidewalk towards us. And she was very close befor i could see she was walking with biggest Bager I have ever seen, she had a peice of binding twine for a leach and it was tyed around that Bagers neck. And I can tell you for a fact that they had the whole sidewalk to them selves, because that badger was woofing, and growling , and showing his teeth to every body they walked by. The little gril didn`t seem to even know what was happing or care. When they past us and I settled down I realised me and my hunting buddy were both standing on the hood of my fairley new truck. The people in the cafe said this little girl could pickup wild animals and that birds would land on her fingers, and that, that wild Badger had just come up to her out of a field she was walking by and never left her he was like her pet and protector. Now I never saw her pick up a wild animal or seen wild birds land on her fingers. But I did see her taking a Badger for a walk, and the scuff marks on the hood of my truck were there till I sold that pick up. The expression on her face when she past us that day has haunted me ever since, It was like the 1000 yd stare I seen later in VET-NAM on young boy`s faces that needed to go home. GOOD LUCK TO YOU: ken
 
52 years old, gave up hunting at 17 or 18. Nothing against hunters or hunting in fact being a motorcycle enthusiast I wouldn't have a problem if it was open season on deer year around.

Like some I have read above besides paper or active targets I take out varmints, woodchucks because they burrow in our horse pastures and occasionally I go on a rabbit thinning binge because the hawks just can't seem to keep up with them.
 
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I am both a paper puncher and an outdoorsman. I love each sport, however in recent years I've been gravitating towards more plinking and informal target shooting rather than hunting. It's been my observation that the shooting world would be much better if hunters would give more fromal target shooting a whack as well as target shooters trying their luck at hunting I feel both schools of shooters could learn a great deal.
 
If it were not for pigs, I have to wonder, if I would do much shooting at all? Hunting is kinda like golf sometimes it takes a couple of friends egging each other on to break out the hunting gear.
 
azgun said:
Why is there not a both option. But I mostly punch paper but I do enjoy a good hunt
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Because if you do both you are a hunter, this poll is designed to find out who hunts and who does not hunt. However, I did make a provision for those who can no longer hunt because of health problems or because of their location. If you hunt I automatically assume (we all know what happens when one assumes) you punch paper as well.
 
Jack of all trades, master of none. I hunt for food, hunt for varmint control, punch paper, dust clays, shatter cinder blocks, ring steel, etc.

I do more recreational target shooting and varmints than most anything else.
 
Hunting or paper punching, I'd have to say paper punching. While I have no problem with hunting for substance or pest removal. I see no gain for mankind in destroying our fur or feathered creatures. Shopping centers and housing developments do that TOOOOO well by distroying their habitat, killing more animals than we ever can with rifle.

No, I am not a PETA fan, I think they are fools. But if you needlessly take wildlife there will be none in the future for our children.

Jim
 
I'm pretty impressed with the wildlife management guys we have out here in Utah. The state does a pretty good job of issuing the right amount of tags so that we have sustainable huntable populations out here. ive not heard cry foul in other states. Those more in the know, am I wrong?
 
I was suprised to see how close, both factions are, I was thinking more of a 75-80% hunter to 25-20% paperpuncher.

Maybe that's 'cause I'm a hunter, that likes to punch paper !
 
I like to shoot, but have cut way back on deer and varmit. Just not as many places to hunt these days as compared to 30 years ago. Alot of land owners are afraid of liabilty claims and/or lease out to big hunt clubs. Don't blame them, it's just the way it is. But it's dam shame. Still have a few buddies that dove and turkey hunt with me in western Oklahoma. On another note, my dad never liked handguns, never saw the use when a rifle or shotgun would more than do the job at hand. I guess that why like them so much.
 
I've hunted since I was a young child. I grew up eating whatever was available (rabbit, squirrel, possum, etc...) However, being female, I'm not so into the whole "lets dig our hands into the guts" kind of stuff. I only hunt when my income fails and I can't afford to buy meat. Other times, I'll just be lazy and pass on hunting unless I happen to kill something.

I voted hunter, because technically I'm both I guess....
 
practice makes perfect so I punch paper so that I am a better hunter but I am a hunter.

Kinda my rule with purchases too, If I cant hunt with it, then I dont buy it. Hard to justify dropping coin on a gun that just gets to go to range. Probably why I dont own many handguns.
 
I voted hunter. Been a hunter since I was old enough for my dad to take me along and I'm 58 now. The main reason I live in Idaho is for the hunting, trapping and fishing.
The only time I send a bullet through paper is when I'm sighting in for hunting season or working up a load. I shoot a lot when not hunting but it's at tin cans, rocks, pine cones etc. and that is with my .22LR. I find if I can shoot one gun well I can shoot all of them well.
 
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