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We have a few "hunters" here too that like to shoot 500+ yards with their "magnum" rifles. I occasionally come across the dead animals they thought they missed. We see the other casualties limping across a field now and then. To each his own I guess. To me, hunting is about the journey, not the destination. If I had my way, a game tag would be good for one animal shot at. If you shoot at an animal it's considered dead whether you find it or not and you close your tag and go home. You can not shoot at any other animal. Of course you could not enforce it, but it would be nice. We have no BP season here in Alberta so I hunt with my flintlock during regular rifle season. I don't care what kind of rifle someone else chooses to use as long as it's legal however, I do get a little disgusted with people like Jim Shockey that use a plastic stocked inline with stainless barrel, pyro-pellets and jacketed sabots and a scope, then trying to take credit for the challenges inherant to a primitive rifle just because technically it's a ML. If the longhunter society wants to allow inlines to qualify for entering game in their record book, they should have the same minimum standards as the B&C. We need a PRIMITIVE ML record book for hunters to compare their successes with other like minded hunters. Sorry for rambling

Cody

PS the only thing that makes Canadians inherantly handicapped is our Liberal govenment