Varmint hunters use varmint bullets, are lesser in # than deer hunters and hunt wider areas.
I'm not sure what any of this is a valid against using rifles for deer. 1. There are far more people that shoot varmints as targets of opportunity with whatever rifle and ammo they have at hand than there are dedicated varmint hunters 2. Varmint hunters don't usually hunt out of trees and shoot towards the ground as deer hunters do. 3. Neither casual or dedicated varminters have caused injury to another person while using rifles. 4. Rifle bullets, whether varmint, hunting, FMJ, or solid, tumble and disintegrate quickly after making contact with the ground or a hard object, slugs do not. 5. For that reason, rifles are safer than shotguns shooting slugs and yet we have rarely had safety problems with shotgun slugs.
The fact that I have to keep pointing this out to so many Fudds...............proves that they dont understand rifles or logic as much as they think they do.
And IMHO those are the types who pose the most danger risk when using "regular rifles".
I'm not sure how such irrelevant arguments prove either a lack of understanding of rifles or logic?
My beef with HP rifle usage, is with how it will affect hunting.
We already have folks who think the limit for bonus means they should be able to take that limit, per county............yeah, deer are evenly distributed like that.
Again I'm not sure what your complaint is here, the limits are by county precisely because the deer are not evenly distributed.
To a sportsman, the allowance of HP rifle will not change much.
IMHO the avg deer hunter is no sportsman.
Sure as hell is not a rifleman or really a gun person.
It'll just be bore sighting other stuff the night before the opener.
The people that would treat a rifle like that are the same ones that already depend on a full magazine of slugs from a pump shotgun to bring down a deer. IMO, simply using a rifle with actual sights is a step ahead of using a shotgun with a bead in terms of safety and accuracy, regardless of how well it may or may not be sighted in. Personally, I would prefer a lower volume of better aimed, safer projectiles being used to take deer than the alternative that we have now.
Big ground, private...............might not have any effect, the rule change.
HP rifle is legal, pre hunting season, on nuisance control. But then there's less people doing that.
I'm not sure what any of this is a valid against using rifles for deer. 1. There are far more people that shoot varmints as targets of opportunity with whatever rifle and ammo they have at hand than there are dedicated varmint hunters 2. Varmint hunters don't usually hunt out of trees and shoot towards the ground as deer hunters do. 3. Neither casual or dedicated varminters have caused injury to another person while using rifles. 4. Rifle bullets, whether varmint, hunting, FMJ, or solid, tumble and disintegrate quickly after making contact with the ground or a hard object, slugs do not. 5. For that reason, rifles are safer than shotguns shooting slugs and yet we have rarely had safety problems with shotgun slugs.
The fact that I have to keep pointing this out to so many Fudds...............proves that they dont understand rifles or logic as much as they think they do.
And IMHO those are the types who pose the most danger risk when using "regular rifles".
I'm not sure how such irrelevant arguments prove either a lack of understanding of rifles or logic?
My beef with HP rifle usage, is with how it will affect hunting.
We already have folks who think the limit for bonus means they should be able to take that limit, per county............yeah, deer are evenly distributed like that.
Again I'm not sure what your complaint is here, the limits are by county precisely because the deer are not evenly distributed.
To a sportsman, the allowance of HP rifle will not change much.
IMHO the avg deer hunter is no sportsman.
Sure as hell is not a rifleman or really a gun person.
It'll just be bore sighting other stuff the night before the opener.
The people that would treat a rifle like that are the same ones that already depend on a full magazine of slugs from a pump shotgun to bring down a deer. IMO, simply using a rifle with actual sights is a step ahead of using a shotgun with a bead in terms of safety and accuracy, regardless of how well it may or may not be sighted in. Personally, I would prefer a lower volume of better aimed, safer projectiles being used to take deer than the alternative that we have now.
Big ground, private...............might not have any effect, the rule change.
HP rifle is legal, pre hunting season, on nuisance control. But then there's less people doing that.