Please Explain it to Me

dogghr

dogghr

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Not sure what I’m missing. Hunting last night w the recurve and and for the last hour I listened to repeated shots from a 300 mag I’m sure. No rest. No letting barrel cool. How do you afford it. Why is the last hour target time? Who at the end of season doesn’t have zero on their rifle? No rifle season for another 3 days. Then 30 min before dark another dude down the road decides to empty 3 clips of his AR w no pause. It’s a free country but what the hell were they doing the other 10 hours of daylight? Church? Maybe. I’ll offend some on here but if I never heard another auto again I’d be a happy man. Guess I need move further up on the mountain to enjoy my antisocial self. Just a crazy man rambling. God Bless America and Merry Christmas!


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I thought I always heard a ton of shooting growing up in Indiana, until I hunted Appalachia. I’d hear more shots on an average early November bow hunt in deep southern Ohio than I heard during the entire gun season back home.


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dogghr said:
Not sure what I’m missing. Hunting last night w the recurve and and for the last hour I listened to repeated shots from a 300 mag I’m sure. No rest. No letting barrel cool. How do you afford it. Why is the last hour target time? Who at the end of season doesn’t have zero on their rifle? No rifle season for another 3 days. Then 30 min before dark another dude down the road decides to empty 3 clips of his AR w no pause. It’s a free country but what the hell were they doing the other 10 hours of daylight? Church? Maybe. I’ll offend some on here but if I never heard another auto again I’d be a happy man. Guess I need move further up on the mountain to enjoy my antisocial self. Just a crazy man rambling. God Bless America and Merry Christmas!


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I think that is the Grinch and his merry band of thugs trying to ruin your Christmas. Two years ago a guy near me shot over 6,000 rounds on the 4th day of gun season.....yep, I got to get me some of that welfare money.......

Merry Christmas you old mountain man!!!
 
dogghr said:
Not sure what I’m missing. Hunting last night w the recurve and and for the last hour I listened to repeated shots from a 300 mag I’m sure. No rest. No letting barrel cool. How do you afford it. Why is the last hour target time? Who at the end of season doesn’t have zero on their rifle? No rifle season for another 3 days. Then 30 min before dark another dude down the road decides to empty 3 clips of his AR w no pause. It’s a free country but what the hell were they doing the other 10 hours of daylight? Church? Maybe. I’ll offend some on here but if I never heard another auto again I’d be a happy man. Guess I need move further up on the mountain to enjoy my antisocial self. Just a crazy man rambling. God Bless America and Merry Christmas!
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Are the guys shooting autos local people? Born and raised there? I've noticed a big difference in reverence for the hunt and neighborhood between folks who chose to be there, and those who were born and never left. Can't say I fault them, it's just the way it is. If there aren't shopping malls, bars, hockey teams, and other people to keep someone busy, there's always whiskey and firearms.
 
My boys (and a couple of their friends) shot a brick of .22's yesterday morning....

For us family get togethers during the holidays are a great time to go plink or shoot clay birds together. Someone usually even shows up with tanerite. Probably sounds like WW2 to the neighbors but we enjoy the time together.

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That used to bother me too, but I don't let it bother me anymore. It certainly doesn't bother the deer, but if it did, think of your quiet place as being a sanctuary from gunfire. I understand where you're coming from though, the peace and quiet of the woods is one reason we hunt, among many. I used to hear someone about a half mile from me shoot a semi-auto handgun very often in the late afternoon. It aggravated me somewhat until I discovered he was a state trooper. I can't blame him for practicing whenever he can. Lots of reasons why folks feel compelled to shoot guns during hunting season, but frustration at not seeing anything to shoot has to be among the top. Years ago when I hunted public land, I heard a lot more than I do now. Guys just happy to be out of the big city and in the woods.
 
MarkDarvin said:
Are the guys shooting autos local people? Born and raised there? I've noticed a big difference in reverence for the hunt and neighborhood between folks who chose to be there, and those who were born and never left. Can't say I fault them, it's just the way it is. If there aren't shopping malls, bars, hockey teams, and other people to keep someone busy, there's always whiskey and firearms.
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Nope trust me my farm county is hardly any but locals. Their good people but dang, right at dark, I just don't get it. It's their right.
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My boys (and a couple of their friends) shot a brick of .22's yesterday morning....

For us family get togethers during the holidays are a great time to go plink or shoot clay birds together. Someone usually even shows up with tanerite. Probably sounds like WW2 to the neighbors but we enjoy the time together.


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Yep I agree, 22s you can shoot cheap all day long. But shooting 300 mag repeatedly for an hour I gurantee he got no better. It's those kind I like to get in wager matches for a little spending money. And I do own autos so I guess I just want the world to myself.
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That used to bother me too, but I don't let it bother me anymore. It certainly doesn't bother the deer, but if it did, think of your quiet place as being a sanctuary from gunfire. I understand where you're coming from though, the peace and quiet of the woods is one reason we hunt, among many. I used to hear someone about a half mile from me shoot a semi-auto handgun very often in the late afternoon. It aggravated me somewhat until I discovered he was a state trooper. I can't blame him for practicing whenever he can. Lots of reasons why folks feel compelled to shoot guns during hunting season, but frustration at not seeing anything to shoot has to be among the top. Years ago when I hunted public land, I heard a lot more than I do now. Guys just happy to be out of the big city and in the woods.
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Day time I understand, just don't get what purpose to blast 3 clips at dark. And you are right I had a 8 and small buck beneath me the whole time. I had no intention of shooting anything, just a last minute escape for peace and quite on Eve of Eve.


*******It all got made up for as my daughter came in from the Tarheel state and announced she was preggo with her first after many year of trying. Trust me, the old man cried like a baby. Getting too soft maybe. I'll wear ear plugs next time bowhunting perhaps. Merry Christmas all and never, never take me too seriously.
 
wpbdeer, I hate to hear you call semi-autos assault weapons. An assault weapon is a fully automatic rifle or carbine useful in battle and police work. Nowhere that I'm aware of are they legal for hunting game animals, nor should they be. A semi-auto however, is extremely useful coyote hunting and hog hunting, just to name a couple. When I hog hunt I normally use an AR15 chambered in 6.8 SPC, either with a regular scope for daylight, or a night vision for after dark. Several times I've had the opportunity to kill multiple hogs at once, and the most I've ever gotten was three. Sport is not the concern, but rather killing every hog I possibly can. When I coyote hunt, I use the same rifles. Sometimes a quick follow up shot or two is needed without the motion and noise that accompanies working a bolt. Just food for thought. :)I'm

Congrats on the new addition dogghr !
 
Congrats on the inbound grand baby! As for the shooting, I agree. I'd rather not sit in a tree and hear shots all afternoon. Like you said, it's their right and as long as they're being safe...I camped on our place with family last summer. Someone had fun shooting nearby until after 10pm!
 
I think confusion stemmed from the fact that assault weapons hadn't been mentioned in the thread yet. I certainly confused the meaning of that post.

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I hear lots of shots here but that is what they are...single high powered rifle shot. Usually early AM or late PM...sometimes on a full moon night like the shot I heard last night about 10 pm...I went outside and could see the does in the backyard by moonlight at that time so a rifle with scope could definitely gather the light required with no artificial light at all..

Last night I listened to chainsaws at work in the woods west of me for 3 solid hours...began at 9:00 pm till midnight...I walked our place out the 10 we bought that borders our 80 and makes us 90 this morning to make sure they weren’t cutting on it since that portion is unfenced...lots of deer beds in there...
 
Shooting like that is one of many things neighbors will do. I gotta think it'd be hard to find an area where everyone is a quiet hunting camp only. Up in my area, there are farmers, drug dealers, gear heads, dog owners, families, shooters, anti-hunting whackos, etc. People all use their places differently, and unfortunately there aren't laws or even understandings for how any person's conduct impacts another.

I know my presence irritates a few people. I've been pegged as a rich guy from the far away big town that's come to their area to buy up all their land. I also know my lawn won't get mowed in a timely manner, and I often will outgame the neighbors with habitat work. If there weren't some aggravations, there'd be no value in owning jumbo acreages or having high fences.
 
Congrats on the soon to be new member of the family!!! As for the last hour and a neighbor unloading round after round before dark...I don't get it either. My neighbor occasionally does the same. Good dude too. Just like's to blast away on occasion and usually late afternoon.
 
The Friday after Thanksgiving in our area they open up Gun Days for Bucks and Doe on the weekend. That Friday the SIL and I went to hunt and the neighbors 2 properties over must of bought all the ammo on sale for Black Friday because the went on a shooting spree that lasted from early afternoon until 30 before dark. Started with Rifles, then went to AR's, then Auto Pistols, then Revolvers, then when all else was shot, .22's for about the last hour. I'm talking about 4 hours of non stop shooting. WOW.

Then it all got topped when I heard one of the women say "really!" and then a hound dog started barking and running loose through all the woods. Dang thing still is too. I've got pics of it and it has no collar. Seems like every time we are there to hunt it runs barking through our neighbors woods, our woods and other neighbors woods. Gee I wonder why all our deer daytime sightings have dropped?
 
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