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"eliminate legality and travel issues between states "
My uncle hunts and would would like to use a suppressor, which is illegal in IL, but not in KY. The result is he bow hunts so as to not scare off the other animals as much.
You can't transport an NFA item across state lines without prior BATFE approval. If I had a full auto gun or suppressor and wanted to shoot at the range in Memphis, I'd have to file a form with the ATF and wait months on their response to travel 10 miles.
The issue is even traveling between states. I don't know the specifics about traveling with a suppressor but you can end up in jail for having certain types of ammunition in some states getting from point A to point B if that state is along your route of travel.
They can't stop you from traveling through a state with a weapon as long as it's properly secured but even that has hazards. There was a guy traveling from Utah to PA with a stop in NJ. He checked his gun in Utah. The plane was late getting to NJ and they offered him a bus, his bags never got on the buse so he got off and collected his bags. He spent the night at a hotel and the next day when he went to check his gun they arrested him. I think he spent 2 weeks in jail but they eventually dropped the charges. It took him like 2 or 3 years to get his gun back.
This menagerie of laws needs to be addressed.
The Firearm Owners Protection Act safe passage provision was meant to protect us from this BS...Damn act always ban new machine guns..Was not worth it...
You can't transport an NFA item across state lines without prior BATFE approval. If I had a full auto gun or suppressor and wanted to shoot at the range in Memphis, I'd have to file a form with the ATF and wait months on their response to travel 10 miles.
Up close and personal with a bow, is real hunting. If you can get close enough to harvest an animal with a bow, you did something.
I call gun hunting, going to the grocery store.
Very true. I did the sit in a tree stand and shot the ducks in a barrel, oh meant shot my quota of deer each year, thing and found it was not really hunting, so I went the black powder route for a while then moved onto bow hunting. What I found is I had the land to myself, the deer were not all nervous has heck and I could either sit in a stand or simply find a good spot to wait for them then close the distance if needed. Yes, it takes a lot more skill, one has to actually learn true hunting skills to get close enough, if not in a stand, to get a good shot on the animal and getting the quota of deer became far more of challenge, which was what I was looking for. Do you use a compound, recurve, or long bow? I prefer the last two, again more for tradition, even though they take longer to master and build up the muscle memory thing, plus compounds require a press to simply change string,s not a thing one would want to drag around if say one had to bug out of dodge.
Actually since most predators are gone we must hunt some species, such as deer, to keep the population healthy, the alternative is they over produce and many starve to death during the winter months. Some animals, such as hogs, which by the way are not a native species, are a pest in much of the Nation, her in Texas one does not need any permits to hunt them because of their destructive nature, 10-20 hogs can destroy a farms field in one night. Most animals that are shot are eaten, yes trophies are also taken but I do not personally know anyone that does not eat the animals they shoot or share it with those that could use the meat.
When the deer become overpopulated in MD or PA the farmers pay you $10 for every deer you kill on their property.
When the coyotes become a problem in Utah the state pays you $50 for every coyote you kill in the state.
When hogs become overpopulated in TX the farmers charge you $300 for every hog you kill on their property.
When the deer become overpopulated in MD or PA the farmers pay you $10 for every deer you kill on their property.
When the coyotes become a problem in Utah the state pays you $50 for every coyote you kill in the state.
When hogs become overpopulated in TX the farmers charge you $300 for every hog you kill on their property.
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Then they are charging to make money, most people would not pay money to do it when they can do it for free. I know of no farmers or ranchers charging to shoot hogs, in fact most are happy to let you come in a remove a major pest. Went on one last year in a corn field at night we killed over 45 hogs in the span of a few minutes, but that was after the same bunch had destroyed two of the farmers fields in as many nights, they leave nearly nothing behind. We butchered every one of them and any meat not claimed by the hunters and locals was donated to a food pantry for the poor. I can assure you we barely made a dent in their population, in fact they have already had two more hunts in the area since I was out there and they still have problems with them, hogs breed fast, are smart and have no predators other then man, a nasty combo for a farmer.
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