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Okay I’m bored and didn’t think this one all the way through before asking it. Disregard this post.

Why do we not have a shooting test too get a hunting license like in some European countries? Most anyone that hunts long enough will have an animal get away at some point. However a lot of people can’t hit the broadside of a barn and have no business shooting at anything alive until their marksmanship improves.
I think it would encourage good marksmanship. You cant shoot you don’t get a tag. That’s motivation for improving your shooting skills.
Too edit the reason why I say this is not because of more government intrusion in our Iives but because there are too many idiots that can’t even hit the vitals of a deer even at just 100 yards unless it’s luck. Then you see deer running around because of that with jaws shot off etc.

Why , just simply why ?

More government f~!cking with my life, more money out of my pocket ,thank you , NO !

exactly

How many steps from your ...."have no business shooting at anything alive " to " have no business owning a gun"?
You want to be held to a standard?
What's the standard and who sets it?
You want to be judged against my skills?
Hope you like ground chuck.

I think everyone agrees with your sentiment that we have a responsibility to be a proficient shot, just not that the government should have any say in it.

They already have a hunter safety requirement, which, to me, is stupid—at least the way it’s applied. I safely carried around, slept with, and shot thousand of rounds through all kinds of firearms in the Marines, which doesn’t satisfy the requirement. But the fact that I took and passed a hunter safety course, that I barely can remember, back in 1978 in southeastern Kansas, allows me to hunt.

I'll go out on a limb here and say, because we're not a European Country.

smokepole for the win

You can't legislate stupid.

Why not a grammar test before one is allowed to post on the internet? Maybe an IQ test prior to breeding?

Thank God.

That one might have legs

Yes. We absolutely need a government run proficiency data base.

Wtf

Ummm, no.

I've seen more than a few like right now that gear up
with the intent of shooting at deer from 400-500+
yards away that never shoot a single round of ammo
other than a 25 yard " sight in "
Then they get on the forums and ask where to hold
on a deer at long range with their particular setup
Some of the same ones get back on the forums
during deer season and post on the deer hunting
section " Anybody near XXXXXX county have a
blood trailing dog ? "

There's no way I would know of to cull the poor
hunters from the qualified ones.
And we've already fought 2 wars years ago to
get strict european rule gone from this country
Why would we want it back?

This thread is funny as hell..

I'd happily agree to attempting to legislate stupid, including grammar tests before public posting and IQ tests for breeding, but the problem always lies in the authority inherent in such structures and how they are inevitably co-opted by corrupt people and used for corrupt ends. That's why it never works. Because we surely could "legislate stupid" in a more indirect but also quite successful fashion: removal of the social safety net in all its forms.

The Europeans also have strict gun ownership regulations, licensing requirements, registration, regulation after regulation. Do you really want to go there??? I don't.

Never thought of it that way, but I can see it now. "The suspect was also an expert marksman with advanced training in the use of high-powered rifles......"

And pay a lot for the privilege of hunting, commonly under the direction of a hunt master.

Wyoming required one years back for bison license holders, I had to take it before my 1st bison hunt.
Watched a couple of folks struggle to get 3 shots inside a 4 inch circle at 50 yds. They had so many minutes to do it.
One person had not qualified before I left to go hunt.