(March 10, 2018 at 10:09 am)Khemikal Wrote:(March 10, 2018 at 9:59 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I went as backup for a guy who was hunting razorbacks.Yeah, with pigs it's about hitting hard, not shooting alot real fast. Bows are actually legit as hell for that...but maybe not on foot, lol. You're a good friend.
With a bow.
Certifiable, but then so are most of my friends.
We were in heavy bush so I carried a .50 revolver. I know they'll stop an angry boar. Didn't feel the need for a rifle with 30 rounds.
(March 10, 2018 at 10:06 am)Brian37 Wrote: Call it hunting, don't call it a sport. A sport is a game, and in a sport all sides are aware of the rules going into the game. Killing an animal is hunting, not a game, not a sport. The human has the unfair advantage. I am not against hunting, I am only against calling it a sport.Agreed...that;s why we have sporting rifles and hunting rifles. Some -can- pull dual purpose....but they're generally inferior to other specific actions. An AR-15..for example..is a sporting rifle. Best employed, and largely chambered, to shoot at paper targets on a range. You know...I've always wondered why we couldn't insist that sporting rifles remain in storage at the range, while we allow hunting rifles to be securely stored at home. It would seem like the things so useful for sport shooting are best kept in a place that's been designed with those specific risks in mind.
There's an idea that actually would lead to fewer mass shootings, or at least change their venue from schools to the shooting range.....where they belong.
No, an A-R15 is nothing else but a battlefield weapon. This is what I am talking about. How we as a society downplay a dangerous object, and all guns are dangerous and should be treated as such.
Australia has laws like what you suggest. Certain types of weapons cannot be kept at home, you can own them, but they stay stored at a gun club and you can only fire them there.
If someone is really intent on shooting other people, join a paint ball club. I think that is fun, although the one time I did it, I shot my teammate out of panic and we lost all 3 games on the team I was on.
