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"...I guess at the same time it does some good for our sport too. These kind of videos get people like LongRangeHunter interested in PD shootin and varmint hunting.
I have said this before, and I'll say it again...
"Getting people interested in PD shootin and varmint hunting..."
The "Sport" is shooting, and the more people that own guns and shoot, the better for all of us.
But the "sport" of PD shooting isn't like "Little league baseball". It doesn't need more people interested in it.
I have been a varmint shooter all of my (much too long) life, and there was a time when the varmint shooter was welcome with open arms everywhere.
Whether he be shooting ground hogs or crows in New England, or Prairie Dogs in the west, there was never a "No" when asking to shoot.
When I first started shooting dogs, no one was interested in it - in 1980, two friends and myself spent 22 solid days camping and shooting in the Conata Basin (some of the best PD territory in the USA), and we saw one other PD shooter.
Ranchers would welcome us with open arms - on one spread, the rancher's wife would come out at noon and bring us sandwiches and lemonade.
But no more...
Now more and more guys have to pay a couple of hundred a day to shoot PDs, and in the east, more and more farmers are saying "NO" due to the growing pressure from "varmint shooters" that are overnight wonders, with poor equipment and poorer shooting skills that toss lead all over the landscape like it's a drunken orgy.
As to "Getting people interested in PD shootin and varmint hunting...".
HA!, I hope 90% of the varmint shooters that shoot PDs, ground hogs, and crows with a rifle, get bored with it and take up golf!
I'm waiting for the day when varmint shooters are rare, golf courses have a three day wait for the greens, and when I drive up to a farm or ranch, the owner runs out and shakes my hand, with his three daughters in tow!
In varmint and PD shooting, there just plain isn't enough to go around as it is, and it doesn't need more pressure.
If there was, you wouldn't have to be begging for a place to shoot, you'd drive by ranches, and there would be signs out saying:
"PD shooters wanted, $30 an hour, free ammo, all you can eat, plus my first daughter for the night!"
If there was enough to go around, guys wouldn't keep their "Hunny holes" secret... they would be glad to tell you places to shoot - but it's getting hard to find places to shoot.. and PD shooters guard the locations of dog towns like gold prospectors guard the locations of good streams.
And that's my take on "Getting people interested in PD shootin and varmint hunting..." HA!!!
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