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| # Posted 2007-10-22 20:06:00 | |
| jtorranc: | Really? Weird - is this in case some understandably hostile wildlife gets closer than the range at which they can effectively use a rifle? |
| # Posted 2007-10-22 20:52:50 | |
| Swampfox: | Jon, I'm not sure, but it's not so uncommon a practice to see around here, and I always supposed it was so that if they went up to a downed animal that wasn't dead yet, there was some reason a pistol was better for dispatching a wounded animal at close range than a rifle.
And then, maybe the scenario you imagine might be true in the situation where, say, you're in grizzly country and you get charged. Even though this isn't grizzly country around Laramie, maybe wearing a pistol is standard gear for hunters who hunt all over the state, and who do hunt some in grizzly country. All guesses here! |
| # Posted 2007-10-22 20:59:03 | |
| jjcote: | Isn't this the place where there's a cowboy on the license plate? Maybe those guys wear pistols all the time! |
| # Posted 2007-10-22 21:11:23 | |
| piutepro: | Real cowboys wear revolvers. And when there is trouble in the saloon, they shot out the dangling light bulb on the ceiling. Some hunters might have heard the rumor about attack badgers. Except that bullets are said to bounce off an attack badger's armor. Or even worse, they catch the bullet with their teeth.
To quote SF: All guesses here, too. |
| # Posted 2007-10-22 22:31:24 | |
| Swampfox: | Most of these hunters (locally, up in the Happy Jack area, which is actually referred to as the Pole Mountain area around here) would never dare take on an attack badger, and hardly ever get out their truck anyway. Really, I would hazard that 98% of the hunters just drive around the roads very slowly. You might wonder why. Well, think about it. Hunting is a hell of a lot of work, hiking up and down all those hills. And it's messy too, if you manage to shoot anything. You have to get that animal dressed out. Then more work. Just imagine dragging a couple of hundred pounds of elk a mile back to your truck. Then you have to deal with the meat, etc., when you get home. Hunters don't want to do that. They want to go to a Cabelas museum store and admire the trophy mounts other hunters have been unlucky enough to have shot and had to deal with.
Think about all that, and then realize the bottom line is that most hunters hunt for the same reason most golfers golf: to get away from their wives. You hop into your truck and drive around for a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon in a blizzard, and you can almost imagine all your possibilities lie in front of you, and all your limitations lie behind you. And so if inside the truck you got beer, tunes and/or a football game on the radio, and heat, and outside you got blistering cold winds and attack badgers, your course of action becomes pretty clear. |
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