Magnum snobbery?
10-01-2004, 02:16 PM
#31
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
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RE: Magnum snobbery?
I would quess that a lot of arguements sound silly to some people. The thing is, everyone had thier opinions. Thats the way life is. As long as there are a lot of opinions you will have discussions about high or low velocity rounds and light fast bullet VS heavy slow bullets. If this were not true there would be little use to shooting forums and such. The makers of guns and ammo and scopes make thier living on these differences of opinions and new products are born to try to please everyone. So let the opinions fly, the industry needs all the help they can get.
I was in this indrustry for 20 years.
I was in this indrustry for 20 years.
10-01-2004, 06:26 PM
#32
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 494
RE: Magnum snobbery?
ORIGINAL: mistahmojoryan
... The only person who's entertained the idea that I'm using "too much gun" is me and one time I mentioned it to a gunsmith and he asked, "Are you damaging a lot of meat?" The answer was "No" so he just smirked and shrugged at me...I felt kind of stupid but it definitely stopped me thinking about my mighty magnum cartridge.
... The only person who's entertained the idea that I'm using "too much gun" is me and one time I mentioned it to a gunsmith and he asked, "Are you damaging a lot of meat?" The answer was "No" so he just smirked and shrugged at me...I felt kind of stupid
but it definitely stopped me thinking about my mighty magnum cartridge.
10-01-2004, 11:02 PM
#33
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 494
RE: Magnum snobbery?
ORIGINAL: Steven Ashe
Jack did write:
Whice ammo manufacturer produces "30-06 Mag"?
Jack did write:
I shoot a 30-06 Mag and I've never had any of those guys offer to stand in front of me, at any distance.
10-02-2004, 06:29 AM
#35
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hampstead, Maryland
Posts: 179
RE: Magnum snobbery?
I usually try to keep my mouth shut, concerning another man's equipment, unless he ask for my opinion. That said, I believe that we all have a serious responsibility to make every effort to get a quick, clean kill. This fact has become much more an issue, since the vast majority of us are no longer subsistance hunters. Certainly, when the American Indians drove a herd of buffalo off of a cliff, in order to get jerky for winter, one would've been hard pressed to illicit any pity over the buffaloes' suffering, from those people, as they gathered meat for survival. Such is not the case today. Most of us know what we need to put an animal down and give him a quick, near painless death. It is not sporting to use less, simply to have a brag. No one but the hunter can judge his own skill and/or the firearm used, or call the shot.
