Zingtea:
Not true. Many a blade, axe and club is designed specifically for killing.
again, totally untrue. During my last few years hundting with guns, I did all my big game hunting with handguns and a lot of small game hunting as well. I love hunting squirrels with a 22 or 38 handgun. I hunted hogs and deer with 44's and 357's and those are also my choice for ground gogs.
A M16 is a different matter. It is a military rifle designed for the military and since it is a fully automatic it is illegal for most civilians to own in this country. However many military firearms have historical significance to collectors and have found use amoung sprtsman for both hunting and target competitions.
Paintball or bb guns just aren't any good at knocking over a steel silouette targets at several hundred yars...in other words it just isn't the same thing.
A finely made firearm or bow, for that matter, is a thing of beauty...a work of art. many guns and designs have much history behind them also. A paintball or bbgun is a childs toy.
target shooting with guns or bows also involves the study of lots of other things such as internal balistics, external balistics...we not only shoot the gun but develop the losds we use and build them ourselves. Many of us have done our own stock bedding action tuning and so on also. I not only shoot a bow but I tune them, build arrows, make strings and when time allows, I'll start making my own bows. There's a lot more to it than the bang at the end or a hole in a piece of paper.
Why do you scuba dive when you can free dive much less expensively?
As I said, my own personal favoprite these days for target shooting is a bow, though my bow can certainly kill.
I like it. Isn't that reason enough?
Hunting is fun but my favorite meat is squirrel and they don't sell that in the grocery store. Rabbit (wild rabbit) comes in a close second. I also fish and eat some of the fish that I catch even though they sell plenty of fish in the store.
Why climb a mountain when you can take a helicopter to the top?
Why scuba dive when you can see the underwater world on TV.
Why learn to cook when you can buy ready made meals all over the place?
Why use a golf club to hit a ball into a cup when you can just walk over and drop it in?
Why grow a garden when they sell flowes and vegies in the store?
We each do what it is that we like to do.
There is just a certain satisfaction is developing a skill yourself and making use of it. Shooting well is a skill. Hunting involves many skills. Some people are interested in developing one skill while someone else is interested in another.
Killing, is only the end of a successful hunt, it isn't the whole hunt.
Now I have a question for you. Why should it bother you if I use guns or bows to taget shoot or hunt?
Have a great day.
