SHARON MUZZLE LOADER

[Semisane]

I agree. I moved to Wisconsin 30 years ago and the first thing I noticed was the glutinous behavior towards wildlife. If they have 8 tags they fill them all and maybe one more for good measure. Then bad mouth the dnr for no deer the following year. Same thing with fishing. Thump their chest and say "me great white hunter"

My gosh, everyone in Wisconsin? You guys sure paint with a broad brush.

 

[user 53860]

My gosh, everyone in Wisconsin? You guys sure paint with a broad brush.

Ok I'll give you that. But if you try to have a conversation with anyone 90% of the conversation is how many I caught or how many I shot. If I take a boat ride with the wife it's always how many fish did you catch. Uh just enjoying the day didn't fish, then you get the "your weird look". City Boys not so much, their into Harleys, packers and fishing.
I'm just saying the wildlife here is under tremendous pressure.

 

[Trapper Scott]

Ok I'll give you that. But if you try to have a conversation with anyone 90% of the conversation is how many I caught or how many I shot. If I take a boat ride with the wife it's always how many fish did you catch. Uh just enjoying the day didn't fish, then you get the "your weird look". City Boys not so much, their into Harleys, packers and fishing.
I'm just saying the wildlife here is under tremendous pressure.

I think just about everywhere has those types. Maybe dig around a bit and find some better company to hang out with. Some farmers hate deer because they hurt their profit margins. They want deer wiped out or at least have their numbers very small and then there are those folks who just want to kill something, shoot at something and they really don't care what it is. I would look around for a better place to hunt and maybe find folks that are more conservationist than killers. In the end, we can't be responsible for others' attitudes, only ours. I just read a story about a fellow who got caught poaching turkey in Indiana and was the first hunter to be denied a hunting license for life.

 

[user 53860]

I think just about everywhere has those types. Maybe dig around a bit and find some better company to hang out with. Some farmers hate deer because they hurt their profit margins. They want deer wiped out or at least have their numbers very small and then there are those folks who just want to kill something, shoot at something and they really don't care what it is. I would look around for a better place to hunt and maybe find folks that are more conservationist than killers. In the end, we can't be responsible for others' attitudes, only ours. I just read a story about a fellow who got caught poaching turkey in Indiana and was the first hunter to be denied a hunting license for life.

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I think just about everywhere has those types. Maybe dig around a bit and find some better company to hang out with. Some farmers hate deer because they hurt their profit margins. They want deer wiped out or at least have their numbers very small and then there are those folks who just want to kill something, shoot at something and they really don't care what it is. I would look around for a better place to hunt and maybe find folks that are more conservationist than killers. In the end, we can't be responsible for others' attitudes, only ours. I just read a story about a fellow who got caught poaching turkey in Indiana and was the first hunter to be denied a hunting license for life.

You're right about that.
Today is Wisconsins 2nd day of deer season. I didn't go because I still have some venison from last year. So no need to kill a deer just to kill it. ML season starts in a week I will be butchering hogs so will be busy. Yeah we do that at home in the shed. I do love being in the woods. I've been hunting with BP since 1973. Shot BP competition until 1978. Only firearm I hunt with is BP. Joined a bp club last month so back to competing again. Work got in the way for awhile. I build my own rifles too.
Just a quick background

 

[TexiKan]

I built my .50 cal. Sharon Hawken kit back in the late '70's and it has been my main rifle ever since. Even though I am a left handed shooter, I use it each month at our club shoots and find it to be a fine gun, worthy of the time and expense invested into it. I have been in the hobby since the mid '70's and have seen only a hand full of Sharons since then. This one has certainly stood the test of time and dependability.

 

[Rich Wormington]

Sharon rifles are my favorites, I have 4 of them and two others with Sharon barrels. Very good shooters. I believe some of the best barrels ever made. Wish they were still available.

 

[tgfrench]

Around here "stalking " walking around the woods during deer season is a good way to get shot.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Around here "stalking " walking around the woods during deer season is a good way to get shot.

So you are saying the woods are full of ignoring idiots with firearms? People that do not identify their target 100% and what is behind it, people who ignore the rules of safe firearm handling and hunting?

 

[TFoley]

So you are saying the woods are full of ignoring idiots with firearms? People that do not identify their target 100% and what is behind it, people who ignore the rules of safe firearm handling and hunting?

Seems to happen quite a lot, though, if your accident reports on TV and press are anything to go by......

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Seems to happen quite a lot, though, if your accident reports on TV and press are anything to go by......

Well, since I stopped hunting years ago I can't really say now. But, when I did hunt in Penna. I always sat with my back against a large tree or "blow down" and put Orange tape around the tree and my area, because on opening day, at dawn, it sounded like the Normandy Invasion! Every yahoo ,idiot, wannabe who never did squat hunting or shooting during the year was out opening day, shooting at anything that moved!

 

[hawkeye2]

Well, since I stopped hunting years ago I can't really say now. But, when I did hunt in Penna. I always sat with my back against a large tree or "blow down" and put Orange tape around the tree and my area, because on opening day, at dawn, it sounded like the Normandy Invasion! Every yahoo ,idiot, wannabe who never did squat hunting or shooting during the year was out opening day, shooting at anything that moved!

That pretty much answers your questions in your post #28.

Its been years since I hunted the National Forest but everyone I've heard from says it's a battle zone.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

That pretty much answers your questions in your post #28.

Its been years since I hunted the National Forest but everyone I've heard from says it's a battle zone.

In Pa. the normal season was two weeks. After the first two or three days the losers & wannabees left and then only the real hunters remained.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

That pretty much answers your questions in your post #28.

Its been years since I hunted the National Forest but everyone I've heard from says it's a battle zone.

yup, just wanted to be sure I understood

 

[tgfrench]

No where did I say the woods were full of idiots. But there are those both walking and sitting in blinds, and when they meet it usually is the walker that ends up on the losing end of the stick.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

No where did I say the woods were full of idiots. But there are those both walking and sitting in blinds, and when they meet it usually is the walker that ends up on the losing end of the stick.

SO, that would seem to me to be a clear indication of the person in the blind being an idiot, failing to identify their target properly. That is a first class idiot to me? What am I missing?

 

[NorthFork]

I agree. I moved to Wisconsin 30 years ago and the first thing I noticed was the glutinous behavior towards wildlife. If they have 8 tags they fill them all and maybe one more for good measure. Then bad mouth the dnr for no deer the following year. Same thing with fishing. Thump their chest and say "me great white hunter"

Well I don't shoot deer illegally (without legal tag), but I kill 3-6 deer every year. I also butcher and package my kills. I eat NO beef, pork or chicken. We eat nothing but what I kill or catch or grow from our garden (except for bread/flour products). Yet according to you I'm a bad person. We live off the land quite literally. What's wrong with that??? More folks do that then you might realize.

 

[vintovka]

Sadder still was pheasant hunting in CA back before the wild birds went virtually extinct. Often would encounter groups of asian males hunting in packs. Usually one had a gun and the others acting as beaters/retrievers. Would fire on anything that moved and often were caught in possession of egrits and other non game birds.

 

[tgfrench]

Snake pleskin exactly what are you trying to prove?

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Snake pleskin exactly what are you trying to prove?

I didn't know I was trying to prove anything. But just to clarify, If you shoot at anything that you can not identify 110% , you are an idiot. DO you disagree with that statement? You indicated that if a person was walking and someone was in a blind, that the person walking could come up on the "short" end of things. That sounds to me like , they could get shot by the person in the blind? Did I misunderstand your statement?

 

[Walkingeagle]

I didn't know I was trying to prove anything. But just to clarify, If you shoot at anything that you can not identify 110% , you are an idiot. DO you disagree with that statement? You indicated that if a person was walking and someone was in a blind, that the person walking could come up on the "short" end of things. That sounds to me like , they could get shot by the person in the blind? Did I misunderstand your statement?

Someone’s having a bad day. Lol
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