The Best Gun!
When I worked in a gun store, I would constantly have new shooters ask the same two questions.
The first question was always what is the best all round gun that I can get?
When I worked in a gun store, I would constantly have new shooters ask the same two questions.
The first question was always what is the best all round gun that I can get?
In this blog I am going to tell you my journey of becoming a recreational shooter, and how I got my hunting properties. Along the way I will give you some tips and hints on how to find your own hunting property. By the end of this blog I hope you will see that finding a hunting property of your own is a very simple process, BUT it is not easy! Yes, there is a difference.
As a hunter I am often in very isolated places with very limited or no services at all. When you venture into places like this you need to take responsibility for yourself and those that accompany you. The luxury of having an abundance of emergency services available to pick up the pieces of one of your bad decisions has long left you before you hit the dirt trails.
Some of the oldest known stories known to mankind are hunting stories in the form of pictures painted onto cave walls. There is just something about hunting that makes us want to not only share our stories but also share the experience by sharing the meat obtained from hunting with anyone brave or curious enough to want to try it.
This week I watched a Youtube video by an Australian youtuber known as Skidpig. The video was of him going hunting on a northern Queensland property with a group of friends. In the video he explains that he has never been to the property before and that he lent his GPS to one of his friends to use, which at first seems harmless enough as they are hunting in a group and are in the boundary of a property and not too far away from their base camp. However, the group gets split up and before long Skidpig found himself lost, with minimum supplies and with darkness swiftly rolling in to make things harder.
I strongly believe that hunting helps boys become good men. There is so much to be learnt from hunting, not to mention the bonding time as a family on the drive to the hunt, camping at the hunt and the hunt itself.
Hunter or poacher?
Animal rights activists, often media and some celebrities go out of their way to darken the sport of hunting and hunters.
However, these people tend to paint hunters with the same brush as poachers, and the two are not the same.
I don’t know if it is just me, but it appears to be trendy to be vegan in today’s day and age. As a hunter I obviously am not a vegan and enjoy eating meat.
I am however curious, and I like to think of myself as open minded, which leads me to asking the vegans I know, why did they become vegan?
Why orange?
Orange in particular Hunter or Blaze Orange is a colour which has been associated with hunting and more so with responsible hunting since the 1960’s.
Does hunting has a PR problem?
Yesterday was my day off from my day job. After doing my chores I decided to watch some Netflix and settled on “Stars in the sky, a hunting story”.