Thread: Hunting vs Shooting

Defined by objective.

Hunting to provide and sport of hunting to provide who cares how it's done.

Shooting either to shoot something during Hunting or to shooting by definition the sport of.......

Your objective/sport is to shoot. Ie targets

Objective to hunt/provide and gather.

Make sense?

Who care's ,im a hunter that would be my answer ,i stalk ,walk ,glass ,shoot deer at the end of the barrel out to medium to LR ,if your putting meat on the table idd say your a hunter first ,how you approach each hunt defines only that hunt - and not your bag of skill's , put it this way if i roar a stag to my position would that make me a stalker or a shooter ?? .Who cares .

Do we really need to put it into a box? I personally don't care what you call it so long as you are safe and are enjoying yourself.

Those people (I am imagining that story someone put up here about a yank boxer or wrestler or something totally ripping up a bank with some super high caliber boom stick without even hitting a goat) who talk themselves up, bullshit 'til the cows come home...I'm sure any decent person with their head screwed on can see through the story. I normally just bite my tounge and try to think of myself as the better person.

I hope I am making some sort of sense. If someone says they are a deer stalker but in actual fact they just shot one in a pen, anyone can figure out that they are full of it. Why waste time pointing out what a dick that guy is; he probably already does a good enough job advertising it himself.

I would not classify the shooting of an animal as long range "shooting" I would put it in a genre of Long Range Hunting and any shooting of an animal at close range I.E in the bush as traditional hunting. Far as I am concerned shooting is punching holes in paper or smacking gongs at long distance. If anyone wishes to differ then go for it cos like Greg I ain't going to enter a handbag slinging match over it.

Spoken like a true shooter

Originally Posted by Tussock

Your hunting till you find something to shoot. Once you find something, y

So was this a premature ejeculation

Dont think i have but Im a bit deaf and could well have missed it

I like shooting stuff. But I have to find it first. Unless I'm target shooting. Then I'm not hunting.

Hunting and shooting were the same until the internet was invented. Then forums were created so that people, who will never meet, could slag the shit out of each other...

Interesting thread Greg, did my comment in the spotlighting deer thread inspire it?

For me personally and it is only an opinion, hunting is the satisfaction of out witting the animal in its own environment.
For me nothing beats seeing animals in the bush,whether I shoot them or not is nether here nor there unless the freezer is empty.
But the freezer is rarely empty. Usually a mate will want to go for a lamp on such and such a property for some steak.
Lamping(or spotlighting) do I enjoy it? hell yes I love seeing 10 or 20 deer over a night( or even 1 !) and passing them over till I find a spiker(at the land owners request ) in a nice findable position. But to me its not "hunting"
The walk we went on not that long ago Greg where we got a deer each was a great day out,"traditional tops hunting" dont get me wrong I enjoyed having a mate along,the walk ,the view(mostly the view dont get much of that bush stalking) But if we had gone 200m down from the wagon in the bush and got a deer there where it is heavily 1080d and spotlighted and pig hunted with dogs I would have felt that little bit better.
With a suitable weapon and good conditions that spot over the gully where the "others" were would be in range from where I got that stag. Would that be hunting? Yea it would be in my mind. If you could take that shot with 90 % certainty then yea. you v beaten the wind and there vision, walked 3 hours to get in position, another two to three hours to recover and another 2 3 hours out.
If I had the gear and skills to do that(and I dont) I would take huge satisfaction from eating that steak/salami/sausages and the hunt itself.
I have shot a lot of deer in the lamp and still do shoot the occasional one, But if that was all I ever did and called it hunting(big game) Id hope someone would give me a dam good slapping.

Originally Posted by Tussock

Tell me, if a deer is shot in the woods and there is there is no photo essay on a forum, did it really die?

& was it shot by a shooter or a hunter

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

& was it shot by a shooter or a hunter

and was it shot during daylight hours or under the light

I believe the answer lies in the tape measure.

Originally Posted by sneeze

I believe the answer lies in the tape measure.

It always comes back to the phallus with you, eh Sneeze?

Still want to stand in a corner with me?