Alphecca

I just returned from a week hunting deer with a bow. I took a nice small doe and a nice 8 point buck. I just brought home about 150 pounds of meat. I go back for another week right after Thanksgiving for gun week. There is absolutly no way to explain to someone what going out and camping in a tent for a week and being in the woods everyday is all about. You have to experience it to understand it. I saw this game from someone that e-mailed it to me. What a joke. Wannabe people everywhere. I guess however I would prefer that those city folks would stay home and play this game rather to come into my woods and shoot the first thing that moves even if it is me. I have little respect for those that condem what I do with out any understanding of it. I do not need to kill any thing, but I do need to go sit in the woods. I have posted some photos of camp and my buck over on my site if you are interested. I think you are right on the mark on this issue. Actually there are way too many ways that people find to try to be something that they are not. Kinda like riding a Harley. I rode over 200,000 miles on an old 63 pan head, but most people just want to be viewed as someone that has done this but they do not have it within themselves to try the experience for themself.

First off, I'm a Texan with a combo permit (hunting and fishing) from the state. And enough tackle in my closets and garage to use any and all parts of that permit that I want.

If the guy is dumb enough to try this (yes, I know that he runs a remote-control target shooting operation now but that's not live animals), he is walking into a refinery with a box of matches.

Aside from the fact that a .22 won't cleanly take a deer, let alone a feral hog, he is looking at serious legal problems.

Short list:
Hunting without a license (poaching) and/or aiding and assisting. Prove that the remote triggerman is legally licensed to take game and / or non game species in Texas.
Hunting with an unlawful weapon. Twenty-twos are not legal for deer in Texas; .243 minimum.
Operating a hunting preserve without a state license / permit.
Making a firearm available to a minor without supervision. Prove that the remote triggerman is of legal age.
Unsafe operation of a firearm.
Abuse of animals. Count on the SPCA and PETA to jump on this with a civil suit if an animal is only wounded by his .22. (That looks funny, but I think it's correct - .22.)

That's just off the top of my head. I'm not a prosecution lawyer or a game warden. If I was, I am sure that I could come up with many more problems.

Summary: this is a VERY BAD idea.

This sort of thing is a travesty. I have never hunted and it is an experience I have been building myself up to for the last year or so.

This is what a buddy of mine calls the "Cabelaization" of the hunting culture. All those shits from back east don't even need to come here anymore (which I guess is a good thing, unless you consider the fact that they don't have to freeze their asses of to take down game; they can do it in a heated loft and feel like Alpha-males.)

Fuck them. I've read too many stories over the last several weeks characterizing me as some backwards redneck because I own guns and tend to vote pro-gun.

These shits want to log onto the internet and then have a 3-point buck head mailed to them with 100 pounds of meat.

What about packing it out? Dressing it? All the shit that makes hunters hunt without a mouse scope?

Balderdash.