Amazing, you've had pellets land on you in a tree, and so that MUST be what I was talking about? Why ask if you already know what happened to me?You've been hit twice...by what? Bird shot from a near-by hunter that fired and pellets landed on you? I've been under a rain of pellets several times, but don't count that as being "hit".
I also beleive the vast majority of Indiana hunters are as safe as anywhere else. I also believe we are the best deer hunters in North America. It's a lot harder to kill a deer from 20 yards than from 400. But we also have more hunters per square mile than in other areas of the country with more wide open terrain. That doesn't leave much room for "slob hunters" as you appropriately call them. Unfortunately, not all of the hunters are good hunters. Hunt DNR property for any length of time and you will understand where I'm coming from.Indiana hunters are as safe as those anywhere else, including other states that are flat and have houses here n' there, out in the country.
FIFYMOST People make sure that when they shoot, their backdrop is safe. Unfortunately, some careless people do not.
But you would question the field experiences of other Hoosier hunters that you don't know and have never met simply because you have not had a similar experience? Kirk Freeman raised a question, "why no weapons restrictions on squirrel and coyote, while there are weapons restrictions on deer". I pointed out one possible reason that politicians might have.It's not rocket science and I'm not going to question the "hunter" status of others while limiting myself and my fellow Hoosiers.
I hope they do make high power rifles legal for deer. I just don't think they will. Whether its good reasoning on the part of law makers or not, I was just offering a possible explanation for their reasoning. Not agreeing with it.The simple fact is that IF centerfire rifles were allowed in Indiana, the number of accidents would not rise appreciably, if at all.
I prefer the argument that deer live do not spend much time in open spaces to the "slob hunters" argument.
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