pistoleer44 wrote:Your right, there is quite a bit of injured animals left to die in the field. Ok, so let's pass legislation to so there can be more left to die.
My second tour in Nam, I was a gunner on a gunship. It is unreal how hard it is to place a killing shot from a vibrating chopper. I can see groups of people in choppers riding around shooting up the landscape and shooting at anything that moves.
When I hunt, I will only take shot that is a reasonabley clear shot with the 99% chance of a clean kill, and to pass a form of legislation to give a bunch of John Waynes a chance to shoot eveything that move, to me is not very sportsmanlike.
Like I said, I knew I would upset some folk, and I'm sorry.
I felt it had to be said.
Opinions are like.....opinions.
The day we shot pigs from a chopper we lost no animals. All head shots, all meat recovered. The pilot was a Viet Nam combat pilot who was a private pilot for the man who owned the ranch, my late father's boss. The pilot later went to work for Bell in Dallas as an instructor and test pilot.
He would fly along sideways chasing the pigs while we were perched on the skid in an extended harness taking the shot. I glanced over at him and he had the stick that is between the legs (I do not know the proper terminology) clamped between his knees as he pointed out something. I climbed back in and demanded that he fly with both hands and that I could see what the piggies were doing thank you very much.
I do not like to hear of wounded game being abandoned either and despise the waste. I have expressed my disgust with other hunters for the practice of abandoning game.
My brother and I had all of the meat in his pickup and drove it back to Baytown. We stopped for gas just this side of San Antonio. The bed of the pickup was solid ice chests of venison and piggie. The individual next to us walked over and said "All of them full"?
"Yup" we say. "How did you do?" we add.
"Not worth a hoot. The jerks on the lease next to ours in Freer were shooting deer from a helicopter. We called the wardens but they didn't do nothing."
"That stinks" we said, looking at each other.
True story.
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