gimpfinger wrote:Prediction is 5 shot first year this passes. I won't even go duck hunting during deer season anymore if this goes through. Its bad enough the was it is but now you'll have dumb shits seeing how far they can take a shot at them ducks (decoys) out there and hit them. Majority of the deer hunters in MN are dumb ass goons that I wouldn't trust with a full mag of .22 lr.
Very true....very astute prediction of what will happen.
I've done a fair amount of waterfowl hunting during ND deer gun season and you make sure you have a shitload of blaze orange in your blind with you to lift up whenever a truck stops the nearest spot on a road to your spread and "glasses" you. AKA sticks their rifle out the window and looks you over. We've used a blaze orange stocking cap or vest on the end of a flagging pole before. One time I was running down a cripple outside our spread, wearing all brown of course, and a truck that had already passed did a 180 at the next approach, hit the gas and came gunning it back up the gravel towards me. I hit the deck and laid as flat as possible while my buddies were standing up and waving each with a piece of blaze orange in their hands.....dude had stopped and was trying to find "the deer" he saw. It still took him a couple minutes before he moved along.
So yeah....there is that aspect of it. It's a legitimate concern especially if you're field hunting. Farmers, old timers, hell...a lot of guys like to shoot more than they like to hunt. Deer season is another opportunity for them to drive around and try to shoot something. They're after deer but a coyote, stray cat or dog, or some geese in a field all do a little towards scratching their itch.