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Registering your weapons
beemaster:
And still the humble potato launcher remains natures most impressive weapon. A true test would be to see if you could get it to go super-sonic and still hold together (no cheating and wrapping it in foil first).
Now I don't disrespect hunters here in NJ, but after feeding deer for a season, stalking out their trails and practically living in the stands and nearly raising the young ones so they'll come up and let you pet them for 20 minutes while they lay on the ground with their belly's up submissively. Then you sit in that tree (you could probably whistle and half would run up to you) and you blast them away from a rifle shooting 1200 ft per second. It's not really hunting, cause the deer are fenced in great areas of land around preserves and military bases where civilians can "hunt". I just have issues calling it hunting when you are at the designated spot where you plan to kill them every day refilling feeding stations along the path, watching them from the tree for weeks to get their patterns down on which trails they use and know how OCD deer can be, so you are at the tree stand at 2:37pm and only need to wait the remain 5 minutes before they walk by. And then similar to going to a seafood place and choosing which lobster you want from the tank, you blast the deer, and call it hunting.
Now, give them potato launchers! set them up in the tree with compressed air and micro fast opening valves and have them shoot a spud at the deer's heads knocking them senseless so that you need to climb down from the stand and choke them out before they get their wits about them - now that seems a bit more rugged and manly, besides you might have left over potatoes for a good roast. Yeah, hunting should involve potatoes and choke holds here, just to make it fair.
Now I'm gonna go and search potato guns on Youtube and likely do that until I go to work in 3 hours.
As one of the redneck Comedy guys said after hearing his friend say would sit still for 3 hours, not moving a muscle as he used a rifle that shot a bullet at 1 mile distance in just under 1.8 seconds, using a 40 power scope and on and on - the reply was, "Gee... I killed three, so far this season with my car, while doing 50 miles an hour, and drinking a beer and eating a bag of Doritos at the same time and by time I picked it off the side of the road, it was already dressed. Nice gun!.
Eric Bosworth:
I like to get meat during hunting season. There was a year when I got 2 dear in about 5 minutes. It was a luck situation. One of my high school teachers was hunting on my property and I didn't even know he was there. I went out about the time he was leaving and about the time I got in my stand and loaded my gun a bunch of deer came down the hill and stopped about 130 yards away. So I shot one and she took off. In total disbelief that I had missed a spike horn came back about 70 yards away and I shot him. The first deer was only 10 yards away in the woods dead. 130 yard shot with a potato gun would be quite a challenge. I did make that same shot with a shotgun at a 4 point close to 20 years ago however.
Michael Bush:
>but after feeding deer for a season, stalking out their trails and practically living in the stands and nearly raising the young ones so they'll come up and let you pet them for 20 minutes while they lay on the ground with their belly's up submissively. Then you sit in that tree (you could probably whistle and half would run up to you) and you blast them away from a rifle shooting 1200 ft per second.
I'm not in NJ so I can't say if that's what happens, but I doubt anyone has the time to do all of that. It would all be illegal to do it here. Most hunters don't get a deer most years... and my bullets are doing 3,600 fps... I don't think I ever owned one that was shooting 1200 unless I was purposely making light loads for plinking and then I'd probably just go all the way to subsonic and eliminate the noise.
iddee:
Who "hunts" deer? We "harvest" deer for the freezer. I never killed a deer until I quit keeping cows.
cidersabuzzin:
--- Quote from: kathyp on January 27, 2015, 10:50:00 pm ---
--- Quote --- Perhaps it requires close proximity but it is just as lethal. By the logic of requiring gun registration they could require you to register just about anything.
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don't laugh. to buy a sharp kitchen kitchen knife in England, you must sign for it and be over 18. you can't carry something as simple as a pocket knife with a blade more than 3 inches and you can't carry a locking knife..it's for your own good, you know?
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Kathy
Last week in my local Lidl (Taunton) I bought a kitchen knife with a blade length of 12" no questions asked. I didn't laugh :cheesy:
cider
PS Mind you I'm Geriatric, nearly as old as iddee in mind anyway :wink:
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