Wyoming has common sense… “extreme range hunting” being debated ….

[Sligh1]

I have to admit- I can see their point of view. As we get so effective at KILLING…. Is there a point that it is just KILLING? I don’t know how one can regulate the range but I understand the concern. You make any means, technology or possibility doable to “kill things” - right, wrong or indifferent- a lot of the masses will take part.
My personal POV from this article… am I doing this? NO. Am I hunting WYOMING? No. But… it’s one of 5 gazillion examples of “are we hunting or are we killing”? The folks out west are, in general, ahead of the game on protecting the resource & having these debates. Whether they win all of them or not- they do a better job, in general, of seeing the threats & protecting their resource far better than east bound all the way to the Atlantic. I wish all states would tighten things up in some forms. Way too many lines being crossed IMO. Even fishing…. Sportsman need to find the adults in the room to say “no more guys!!! Let’s dial this madness back!” To a common sense level.

Lawmakers Ponder What, If Anything, Can Be Done To Regulate Extreme-Range Hunting

Wyoming legislators on Friday discussed what can be done, if anything, to regulate extreme-range hunting. In one much talked-about instance, a hunter in…

cowboystatedaily.com

 

[Iowa]

Skip, it’s like you knew my arrowhead muzzleloader showed up today!!! But even with that said I agree with you %100 , I think we need to have more restrictions and give the deer more of an advantage.

 

[Sligh1]

Skip, it’s like you knew my arrowhead muzzleloader showed up today!!! But even with that said I agree with you %100 , I think we need to have more restrictions and give the deer more of an advantage.

Ha!!! I have one too. .
I end up shooting all my deer at 15-20 yards with a bow anyways but it’s nice to have good guns, etc. Im certain we on same page….
I am all for variety of guns & some technologies …. But if it became “wide spread & common” that dudes were shooting bucks at a half mile in iowa…. Ya, I think we address it. The EXTREME would be “well, let’s just legalize thermal hunting for deer!” Which sounds crazy & it is…. But when do we, as HUNTERS, say- ok guys, stop, time to dial this back in. For example: states with the “triple technology kill system” …. A corn pile + cell cam + crossbow during ARCHERY season…. Come on!!! Or that combo with guns. It’s just killing at that point. Those 3 combos are a lined crossed IMHO!!! We have 1 them here & not the 3 and I am grateful for that!!!! U add all 3 of those together & it’s truly devastating & just gets us into that gray area of KILLING.

 

[tall@wide]

I think it’s great that a state is actually looking to make hunting harder instead of easier..Make the hunters get animals closer instead of shooting one at long distances. I wish more states would do the same. Today hunting has become too easy….Cell cams, bait, 600 yard muzzleloaders, crossbows, drones to find bucks, etc.

 

[JNRBRONC]

There is hunting and then there is shooting. Shooting is best done at the range on iron, IMO. Some have posted being anti-smokeless ML on here. It's not the weapon, it's who's behind it.

Some western states banned having a 50 BMG on a turret/tripod in the back of a truck, I applaud them.

So much can go wrong with long distance shots that they are unethical IMO. I'd hate to be stalking in on an animal and wind up being straffed from a hunter a half mile away.

As the years go by, the guns make fewer and fewer trips afield with me.

 

[MarkF]

Gunwerks just built a 450 bushmaster that easily shoots 500 yard groups and is capable of up to 900 yard shots. While I’m sure very few people will spend the money on that gun, I still feel this is getting absolutely ridiculous. Would be fun to shoot targets at distance but shooting game that far doesn’t seem like hunting to me, nice to see Wyoming opening a discussion about it.

 

[Iowa]

Once again I’m all for this type of thing but how do you regulate how far people shoot their gun? Limit optics? Smokeless powder ban for muzzleloaders ? What about electronics in the field in general (rangefinder, smartphones, etc. ) I feel like no matter what weapon is being used certain people are going to push it beyond its/their limits.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Once again I’m all for this type of thing but how do you regulate how far people shoot their gun? Limit optics? Smokeless powder ban for muzzleloaders ? What about electronics in the field in general (rangefinder, smartphones, etc. ) I feel like no matter what weapon is being used certain people are going to push it beyond its/their limits.

It would be a nightmare to enforce, most likely impossible.

Was thinking about hunting sheep (Bighorn) and it seems that it is usually a long-range game.

 

[AU91]

Ha!!! I have one too. .
I end up shooting all my deer at 15-20 yards with a bow anyways but it’s nice to have good guns, etc. Im certain we on same page….
I am all for variety of guns & some technologies …. But if it became “wide spread & common” that dudes were shooting bucks at a half mile in iowa…. Ya, I think we address it. The EXTREME would be “well, let’s just legalize thermal hunting for deer!” Which sounds crazy & it is…. But when do we, as HUNTERS, say- ok guys, stop, time to dial this back in. For example: states with the “triple technology kill system” …. A corn pile + cell cam + crossbow during ARCHERY season…. Come on!!! Or that combo with guns. It’s just killing at that point. Those 3 combos are a lined crossed IMHO!!! We have 1 them here & not the 3 and I am grateful for that!!!! U add all 3 of those together & it’s truly devastating & just gets us into that gray area of KILLING.

Add in having a 6 ft high fence making it so the deer HAVE to come by that spot with the cell cam telling em when and an able bodied guy with a crossbow perched in a tree 20 yards away. So called “archery” season has become a joke in IL where I hunt. I don’t understand how anyone takes any pride in harvesting a deer this way but they’ve gotta get their pic up on social media to let everyone know they got their buck