Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Indiana, it is legal to hunt deer with handguns. You can hunt them with handguns, shotguns, arrows, and black powder guns. Hunting with rifles is illegal, though! Hunting does serve a useful purpose here. White Tail Deer are incredibly overpopulated in Indiana, and in the last few years, they have begun to be seen in the large cities like Fort Wayne. I nearly hit one with my car that jumped out into the road in a residential neighborhood in the city last week! This was in a city of 250,000 people, not a rural area! -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 10/19/13 2:06 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >Actually, I can understand the fascination, and I recognise that shooting >can be a sport--after all, a flavour of it (skeet) is even in the >Olympics, I think. > >When I was in my late teens in Denmark, I sometimes went with a friend to >a shooting club in our hometown and fired some rounds of target practice. >I just used a borrowed pistol, but the people who were really into the >sport did own their handguns. BUT?they never left the club. Each member >had a kind of safe deposit box there, and the gun and ammo were kept >there. They never left the premises of the club. This was logical since a >handgun has only two purposes: to shoot target practice, which one did at >the club; or to kill other people, which is not allowed. So there was no >need to take the gun out of the club. > >Cheers, >Nathan > >On 19 Oct 2013, at 06:08, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sonny, >> It is very difficult to get one's head around this "need" when one has >> not even touched a gun in the whole 61 years of one's life, and never >> really felt the need to touch one, either. Cultural differences, I >> guess, but from my perspective this is one I cannot understand the >> need at all. I am totally against hunting animals for sport as well, >> so that accentuates the divide..... >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >>wrote: >>> Jay, >>> Times have changed and so have I, but I've owned a Walther P38 (WWII) >>> and a Walther PPKS (James Bond's pistol). I rarely fired either of >>>them, >>> almost always at our family farm. >>> >>> I did not own them for protection; I truly was fascinated by the >>>mechanics. >>> >>> I traded one for the other, then sold the PPK when I needed to pay some >>> bills. >>> >>> I now own three firearms; a shotgun, a 22 rifle and a 22 pistol. I've >>>not >>> seen any of them for several years, and the last time we used them was >>>at >>> the range, (I think I posted those pix) >>> >>> I'm pretty ambivalent about the issue when it comes to small arms like >>>I >>> own. I really don't understand, and get aggressive when the machine is >>> very automatic and has a clip with a multitude of bullets. I don't >>>know >>> why anyone needs that, (surely not hunters). >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >Nathan Wajsman >Alicante, Spain >http://www.frozenlight.eu >http://www.greatpix.eu > >Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >Blog: >http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information