Kind of OT- Are you a shooter or a hunter?
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Kind of OT- Are you a shooter or a hunter?
I'm curious as to how many people like just shooting over hunting, or vice-versa. Given the choice, would you rather spend the day hunting or at the range?
Personally I like them both about equal. Given the choice, though, I'd probably rather spend the day hunting. Maybe it's because I don't get to hunt as much as I get to shoot. If I could hunt as much as I could shoot, then the choice might be different. Just curious as to what y'all's take is.
Personally I like them both about equal. Given the choice, though, I'd probably rather spend the day hunting. Maybe it's because I don't get to hunt as much as I get to shoot. If I could hunt as much as I could shoot, then the choice might be different. Just curious as to what y'all's take is.
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+1lever-4-life wrote:I like a good day of deer hunting or upland hunting over about anything except a good trout stream! But I do love shooting with friends and shooting in contests. Good topic!
I'll take hunting over shooting, but shooting is still high on my list of fun things to do.
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Hate to make a choice....but it's hunting OR fishing, whichever the season allows, sometimes both! Shooting could not be any closer of a second choice though! Still playng a little softball as well, just not very well
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Shooter,....I think?
I like to shoot, and I like to hunt (but don't like to kill stuff in general), but when I hunt, it's "with a mission", I use a scoped bolt gun mostly for making meat. Some don't think that's "hunting". Oh well. I guess I get my "experience" of walking around in the woods and mountains, since I'm out in the hills daily with a gun. Roaming the wild and silent places with a rifle isnt one of the choices listed, but it's first on my list.
One of the daily dog (and gun)walking spots.
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Haven't shot a formal range in many years, we just go out in the hills and shoot. If you can see the vehicle in this pic, it's one of the shooting spots also. Between this spot and another a half mile away I've shot about 6 or 8K rounds in the last 3 or 4 years.
I like to shoot, and I like to hunt (but don't like to kill stuff in general), but when I hunt, it's "with a mission", I use a scoped bolt gun mostly for making meat. Some don't think that's "hunting". Oh well. I guess I get my "experience" of walking around in the woods and mountains, since I'm out in the hills daily with a gun. Roaming the wild and silent places with a rifle isnt one of the choices listed, but it's first on my list.
One of the daily dog (and gun)walking spots.
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Haven't shot a formal range in many years, we just go out in the hills and shoot. If you can see the vehicle in this pic, it's one of the shooting spots also. Between this spot and another a half mile away I've shot about 6 or 8K rounds in the last 3 or 4 years.
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Hunting for me. I've been a member of three "Shooting" clubs, I only enjoyed one of them and thats because most of the shooters there were also hunters. I have nothing against target shooting I enjoy a day at the range but over here we have some dedicated target shooters that would bore the average gun nut to death.
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I generally think that if it is recreation and has a gun involved it is a good day. I might be shmoozing, shooting, hunting, reloading, cleaning, or whatever, I just like guns, they interest me.
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Wow! If you would have asked me that just say 5 years or more ago; I would have emphatically said hunting.
But here of late I have been experiencing a real softness when it comes to the kill part of the hunt.
I have noticed I am also spending much more time at the range.
Like packing everything but the kitchen sink and spending more time with the set up, and time between shots.
I have been putting much more emphasis on satisfying accuracy.
Used to be, hurry up get to the range make sure the gun still worked then get in those woods and get to huntin.
But here of late I have been experiencing a real softness when it comes to the kill part of the hunt.
I have noticed I am also spending much more time at the range.
Like packing everything but the kitchen sink and spending more time with the set up, and time between shots.
I have been putting much more emphasis on satisfying accuracy.
Used to be, hurry up get to the range make sure the gun still worked then get in those woods and get to huntin.
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What do ya think?.....
Still enjoy shooting though, 'bout 2k + worth of lead a year down range.
Fishing is a daily break in my daily routine, carry a rod and tackle with me at all times. I'll drop the line wherever I'm at that has water, today I caught a couple of Blue Gills at a mill pound behind a customers establishment during the lunch hour, this afternoon around three I saw some Bass mouth open on lake I was passing. I stopped and tossed a line in and caught a nice Big Mouth Bass. 'Course threw 'em back.
Still enjoy shooting though, 'bout 2k + worth of lead a year down range.
Fishing is a daily break in my daily routine, carry a rod and tackle with me at all times. I'll drop the line wherever I'm at that has water, today I caught a couple of Blue Gills at a mill pound behind a customers establishment during the lunch hour, this afternoon around three I saw some Bass mouth open on lake I was passing. I stopped and tossed a line in and caught a nice Big Mouth Bass. 'Course threw 'em back.
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Hunting - as in wandering around with a gun and finding things to shoot - even if it's only dirt clods.
"Shooting" (public range time) is only interesting if there is a group or I'm working on a specific load. Ranges are either empty & boring or full and obnoxious. Haven't found much in between.
Besides, Leverguns are made to be carried, not laid on a bench/gun rack.
I might feel different if I could shoot from my back porch, but If I've got to go somewhere to shoot, I'd rather go somewhere to hunt.
"Shooting" (public range time) is only interesting if there is a group or I'm working on a specific load. Ranges are either empty & boring or full and obnoxious. Haven't found much in between.
Besides, Leverguns are made to be carried, not laid on a bench/gun rack.
I might feel different if I could shoot from my back porch, but If I've got to go somewhere to shoot, I'd rather go somewhere to hunt.
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Well, I guess I prefer hunting if I am shooting. I probably enjoy pheasant hunting about as well as any kind of hunting, because I am also shooting. I can enjoy a day of hunting without much action, but as a general rule, I crave a little action.
Fishing is ok as long as the fish are biting, but it if it gets slow, I get tired of it after a while.
And I still enjoy a day of heavy shooting, like shooting clay targets with shotguns, and will often shoot a couple of cases of shells in one afternoon. I used to do the same with rifles and pistols, espacally pistols.
I enjoy sitting on a deer stand for a few hours, but I tend to get bored after a while if I don't see some game eventually.
Fishing is ok as long as the fish are biting, but it if it gets slow, I get tired of it after a while.
And I still enjoy a day of heavy shooting, like shooting clay targets with shotguns, and will often shoot a couple of cases of shells in one afternoon. I used to do the same with rifles and pistols, espacally pistols.
I enjoy sitting on a deer stand for a few hours, but I tend to get bored after a while if I don't see some game eventually.
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I lived near Eugene, Oregon for almost 20 years, excellent hunting in lots of beautiful forest lands nearby. But for years I been living in Kansas. Got lots of wheat fields here, not much timber lands. There are deer, but not as much fun to hunt them seems to me. With no pals nearby who like to shoot, I tend to collect more than anything else. Need to shoot more though.
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Shooter. My father did not like "killing" things (I guess due to time in the military and as a FBI agent), so he never took me hunting, though we went shooting often. So I didn't grow up with the tradition. I've hunted some as a young adult with friends. Now that my son has expressed interest, it is something we are going to learn and do together, but I imagine I'll always be more of a shooter at heart!!!
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As a youngster, all target. As a Teen, about 50/50. As an adult with 3 little ones....mostly all target with maybe a couple of turkey hunting excursions thrown in per year, if no one gets the stomach flu...maybe.
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When I said "a day at the range", it didn't necessarily mean a formal shooting range. It means just out shooting, not hunting. The reason I ask is because I know a few people, and know OF a lot of people that just shoot once or twice a year to sight in their guns that they are going to use for hunting. I know practically everyone on this site shoots more than that, but I was just curious as to where the passion really is.
I guess a better question might have been, "Do you shoot to hunt, or hunt to shoot, or both?"
I guess a better question might have been, "Do you shoot to hunt, or hunt to shoot, or both?"
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If I hunt I rarely get to shoot, and I shoot more often than I hunt, due to regular silhouette matches. So I guess I'm a shooter. But in spirit I see myself as a hunter more than a shooter. For example I'm not interested in competitive matches, just in my own score, for competence. But I do go out hunting/scouting about once a month, and when there's a conflict, I hunt.
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I love hunting and shooting....
Its not only a passion...its an obsession....
If i could afford it.....I would hunt and shoot every day...
I shoot skeet every weekend....at least a couple of rounds
and BS and goof around with the guys
Recently competed in the Florida Sunshine Games in shooting...
and brought home the gold in my class...and 3rd overall
heres some of our shooters...good times for sure
Too bad we dont have rifle and pistol compititions around here
Its not only a passion...its an obsession....
If i could afford it.....I would hunt and shoot every day...
I shoot skeet every weekend....at least a couple of rounds
and BS and goof around with the guys
Recently competed in the Florida Sunshine Games in shooting...
and brought home the gold in my class...and 3rd overall
heres some of our shooters...good times for sure
Too bad we dont have rifle and pistol compititions around here
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