Governments picking winners and losers through legislation is most of what has taken us into the dire straights we're in as a nation. Particularly when insider trading is legal for congress, and back-door deals are made daily which end up being simple money transfers from tax-payers to politicians and their friends.
Legislation in the fashion of this thought experiment would be the same, and the deals would be brokered before the law was even on the public's radar, with appropriate stock purchased or dumped, with last-minute amendment due to those not wanting to lose business bribing lawmakers.
Get rid of laws. Let the free market decide what the best products are. You want people to make better choices? Educate; don't legislate. That only empowers corrupt and greedy lawmakers.
Governments picking winners and losers through legislation is most of what has taken us into the dire straights we're in as a nation. Particularly when insider trading is legal for congress, and back-door deals are made daily which end up being simple money transfers from tax-payers to politicians and their friends.
Legislation in the fashion of this thought experiment would be the same, and the deals would be brokered before the law was even on the public's radar, with appropriate stock purchased or dumped, with last-minute amendment due to those not wanting to lose business bribing lawmakers.
Get rid of laws. Let the free market decide what the best products are. You want people to make better choices? Educate; don't legislate. That only empowers corrupt and greedy lawmakers.
Your points are valid but who decides who gets to educate us?
But the point is that most hunters look for some magic cartridge, not really better than any other cartridge, shoot endlessly off the bench trying to shoot meaningless small groups, don't know how to shoot off their hind legs like a man, and would be far better off learning to be a GOOD SHOT than endlessly discussing and worrying about cartridge and group minutiae.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
I believe Mule Deer has discussed this phenomenon. People have far less time to spend afield and far fewer places to be afield so must drive much longer distances to get there. Many people don't even have a good place to shoot their rifles closer than an hour or two hours away. So instead of actually hunting or scouting or doing target practice they concentrate on this minutiae.
If someone really wants to drive people batsh*t crazy, log on to a golf forum and propose this same idea except that golfers are limited to two woods, three irons and one putter. And no range finders or golf carts, they have to carry their own bags.
I wouldn't recommend it since even if you posted it with a dozen smiley faces you'd still get very earnest death threats. Talk about a group of people who want to buy skill out of a box...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
Wouldn't Reverse Loonyism also include 4x scopes (or factory issued iron sights)? Handloading would be out of the picture, as would bullet selection, unless you could do so by picking the ammo brand. Sounds like my father's rifle...30-06 with a 4x Weaver, shooting factory 180 gr soft points, beat to hell from using it as a crutch and falling on it. Boring, but it usually brought meat home.
"I didn't realize we had so many snipers in this country." by J23
I don't think handloading is necessarily part of loonyism--except the kind Jim in Idaho described, where loonies who almost never shoot except off a bench (and even then maybe never beyond 100 yards) strive for the tiniest groups, even though such groups are meaningless in the vast majority of hunting.
I've known guys who handload and shoot a lot, but don't buy and sell and "build" rifles constantly, hoping one will change their life. Instead these guys handload because they shoot a lot, and because they shoot a lot they shoot well, even off their hind legs "like a man." Hell, I even known one woman, very well, who shoots off her hind legs very well, unlike most men. :-)
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
Didn't miss the point. The point wasn't about the law part of the post, that was a theoretical to level the playing field. I just found that portion of it humorous at the time. The point was that more practice and familiarity with your firearm = better success. Nothing loony there. That has and always will be the case. Likely every living, breathing creature on the North American continent has been dispatched with an '06. Before that, it would be a safe bet that the same has been done with the 30-30, 22 LR, and if you were patient enough to research it, dozens of other cartridges as well. 8000 years before that, every creature on the continent was dispatched with a pointy rock lashed to a stick. Even then, some used different purpose shaped rocks, shorter and longer sticks, bows, spears, atlatls, etc. So the point really is that whatever shape or form the tool of choice is, it is most effective in the hands of one who practices with it, is familiar with it's abilities and limitations, is cognizant of the quarry and environmental variables involved. Loonyism is a lot more deeply ingrained than the 30-06, and the last generation or two, as is the over-arching point about practice and familiarity with your tool of choice.
I know this is a thought experiment, but if it were seriously posited, then I would make it a point to use a 30.06 to eliminate a varmint of the first order. Or maybe I'd just use an unapproved device to accomplish the same task. Brain phardts are all right from time to time, but this one was a skunker.
Up hills slow, Down hills fast Tonnage first and Safety last.
5. For elephant, it is illegal to use any cartridge except the .375 H&H with 300 grain bullets.
Why? Jack O'Connor's wife did just fine with the '06.
The Tea Party Movement is pretty much the same as a bowel movement except that it smells worse and has far less in the way of intelligent content. --DancesWithGuns
5. For elephant, it is illegal to use any cartridge except the .375 H&H with 300 grain bullets.
Why? Jack O'Connor's wife did just fine with the '06.
You're right. It should have been any cartridge larger than the .375. I have personally seen entire elephants missed with .458 and .500 caliber rifles, probably due to flinch.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
Examples of one are so illuminating. Better (but a cliche) would have been to cite the hundreds of elephants Bell killed with rifles chambered for cartridges less powerful than the .30-06.
This has been a very interesting thread, mostly due to the reactions of several posters.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
Talk about a group of people who want to buy skill out of a box... 
