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I posted this at the general threads as well as here.

A few years I wrote the following questions for my fun. I hope you folks enjoy it.

A guy walks to the woods carrying his long bow in one hand. On his back, along side his small backpack is a quiver with a few arrows. The back pack carries a canteen and enough food for one day. Is he hunting?

A guy drives to the woods in a pickup. He gets out throws on his small backpack with a canteen and enough food for one day. He has a quiver with a few arrows attached to his compound bow and heads into the woods. He has range finder on his belt. Is he hunting?

A guy walks out his back door and heads for the woods with his open sighted .30-30 rifle. He has a canteen and a little lunch in a small backpack. Is he hunting?

A guy drives to the woods in his pickup. He gets out and grabs his .270 with a 3-9X scope sighted in for 100 yards and takes a few cartridges out of the box and puts them into his pocket. He put on a backpack which has a rangefinder and enough food and water for a whole day; and a little more if he decides to stay in the woods. Is he hunting?

A guy drives to the woods in his pickup. He gets out. He puts on his binoculars which he installed in a bino-buddy. He then puts on his backpack which contains enough food and water for a day. On his belt is a rangefinder. He picks up his long range 7STW with a Swarovski 5-25X52 sighted in for 300 yards mounted on it. Installed on the fore end is a bipod. Is he hunting?

A guy drives to the woods in his pickup. He goes to a clear-cut he scouted earlier in the year. After pulling off the roads at an abandoned landing he gets out a portable benchrest and sets it up. He then places a range finder on it to one side. Then he sets out a front rest and a rear sandbag on the bench rest. He carefully places a .30-378 Wea Mag carrying a Nightforce 12-42X56 scope sighted in for 100 yards. He can adjust the turret for the range at which he sees game. He gets out a set of Big Eyes and mounts them on a tri-pod. Is he hunting?

I won't make any call on the hunting or not, but I would personally opt for a 200 yard zero on the STW

I chose 300 yards for the zero because that's what I did with my .257 Wea. The trajectory does not go above 3" all the way to 300 and is only about 8 1/2" down at 400 yards. No need to fiddle with adjusting the scope or dots until past 400 yards.

I hear ya', just poking fun

If he is in the pursuit of killing animals, then he is hunting.

I'd say third one up from the bottom would be hunting in luxury if he were after deer, but if elk were his quary he would just be in really good shape. As for the last one, I just can't justify that, but to be honest, with less and less people hunting every year, we need all we can get. As long as he has good fundamentals and ethics as well as ability to shoot at that range with that rifle, I say go for it.

Those guys setting up like the last example, that know what they're doing and have the requisite skills to connect on their shots are generally shooting at game that is 1 mile+ from their position.

A 1000yd target is a gimmee to these guys.

The others don't need good fundamentals and ethics as well as ability to shoot at that range with his equipment? Doesn't make any sense to me.

Were you hunting?

Yes.

So are they... but, are they Ethical Hunters?

Trying to kill something with a pointed stick might not be.

They are all hunting....their personal conduct afield determines whether or not they are "ethical"....not the gear they carry.

Only until his scope fogs............afterall, it's a Swarovski

dumbest freakin thread ever

Ringman is running neck and neck with Shod

Rich -

As I read your examples, the first 5 guys were hunting, the last was not. That last guy did his **hunting** ahead of the season when he scouted, all that was left was the shooting. I'm not criticizing or passing judgement, just noting the distribution of the parts of "hunting" over a different time scale.

Tom

Thoughts that make you go, "Hmmmmm...".

Is this just trolling or someone looking for real opinions?

I think they are all hunting.

Yes, he's hunting. At least, until some self-righteous pr*** shows up and says "that's not hunting."

Of course, he's still hunting, he just has a self-righteous pr*** looking over his shoulder, and it's just not the same.