namedpipes
NES Member
First off, I'm not a hunter - this is just to understand the reasoning, if any...
So I get that you can't hunt deer with a rifle, except shotguns or certain muzzleloaders. I understand bow & arrow are ok during the right season.
I just don't understand the reasoning.
According to my recollections watching Bambi, a deer is a large animal, easily spooked. It seems to me it would be difficult to get close enough to the deer to humanely kill it quickly with a shotgun, a shotgun being devestating at close range and not so much at a distance. I suppose there are muzzleloaders that are accurate at a distance, but my impression of those is gained from movies of the revolutionary and civil wars, and those are no match for a modern hunting rifle.
So, again, it seems to me, the chances of injuring a deer vs killing it are pretty high compared to shooting a similar sized animal with say, a 30-30 and a scope.
If all that is correct, then it seems the humane thing to do is allow hunting with modern rifles. That would make the people that wrote this law monsters...
Or is there some very good reasoning that makes all kinds of sense that I've just missed. Maybe a shotgun really is the most appropriate firearm for deer hunting?
Just curious and asking the reasoning, not arguing one way or the other.
So I get that you can't hunt deer with a rifle, except shotguns or certain muzzleloaders. I understand bow & arrow are ok during the right season.
You can't use any rifle for hunting deer.
I just don't understand the reasoning.
According to my recollections watching Bambi, a deer is a large animal, easily spooked. It seems to me it would be difficult to get close enough to the deer to humanely kill it quickly with a shotgun, a shotgun being devestating at close range and not so much at a distance. I suppose there are muzzleloaders that are accurate at a distance, but my impression of those is gained from movies of the revolutionary and civil wars, and those are no match for a modern hunting rifle.
So, again, it seems to me, the chances of injuring a deer vs killing it are pretty high compared to shooting a similar sized animal with say, a 30-30 and a scope.
If all that is correct, then it seems the humane thing to do is allow hunting with modern rifles. That would make the people that wrote this law monsters...
Or is there some very good reasoning that makes all kinds of sense that I've just missed. Maybe a shotgun really is the most appropriate firearm for deer hunting?
Just curious and asking the reasoning, not arguing one way or the other.