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Lowlife said:
It's called Conservation. Look into it.
Hunters as Conservationists
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I’m fully aware of conservation but killing something because it’s just trying to survive by eating a few nut’s from your tree is repulsive.
I’ve been dealing with wildlife for 40 years so your preaching to a choir of (1) who could care less.

There are less then 10,000 snow leopards in the world today because we as humans kill them for their fur for coats, go ahead and call that conservation.
 
kenpomaniac1958 said:
I have Beaman P17 single shot that I use sometimes. I have single shot break open pellet rifle also. I think pellet guns/rifles are neat. I'm thinking about getting another one soon. I prefer single shot break open or pump action.

I've seen some expensive pellet guns and rifles out there. Too rich for my blood. But I like looking at them...:)

I've thought about buying a Crossman pump action in 22 pellet caliber just to see how different it is from 177 caliber..:)
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I can assure you the 22 caliber pellet rifle if you plan on having to dispatch varmints is the smallest you should go. A 177 is only good for holes in paper. Having said that I highly recommend the Crossman Shockwave in 22 with the Nitro Piston technology. It is a great rifle. You can leave it cocked for long periods of time with out harming it and the knock down power is awesome even out to almost 50 yards. I topped mine with a UTG 4-16x40 scope all from Pyramid Air.
 
Lowlife said:
It's called Conservation. Look into it.
Hunters as Conservationists
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“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen,” the 26th president of the United States said years ago. “The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wildlife, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”



I don't believe Keystone said either of these things nor has he ever expressed any malice towards hunting or sportsman.

Killing snow leopards or elephants or rhinos or other animals just for fun puts you on the bottom of the list of humans as far as I'm concerned. Still, we are tasked to be stewards on this planet and when confronted with the necessity to cull a certain amount of animals for the good of their species, assuming it is as prescribed by wildlife biologists, I have no issue with it. People who hunt what they eat are not the same as trophy hunters or people who kill animals just to be killing them. I am also not accusing anyone in this thread or on this forum of either of those things.

My personal rule is I don't kill anything I don't eat unless they are rabid, injured or threatening. Coyotes, of which are abundant here, can be problematic since they will attack house pets. Thankfully that has never happened here and I have not only resisted calls for me to shoot them from various neighbors, I have also made it known that killing one without a good reason would result in, let's say, getting on my bad side.

That said, as long as people are following conservation laws prescribed by wildlife biologists, as a general rule I have nothing to say about it.
 
The only critters I dispatch are rabid animals I come across at work or if a neighbor calls about. I dispatch any poisonous snakes that come in my yard mainly because my dogos would try to "play" with them and get bit. As a young boy I was bitten by a juvenile rattler while picking blackberries. Fortunately my Dad was with me at the time. Since then I am permanently petrified of snakes...Just my two cents...
 
wolfpack076 said:
The only critters I dispatch are rabid animals I come across at work or if a neighbor calls about. I dispatch any poisonous snakes that come in my yard mainly because my dogos would try to "play" with them and get bit. As a young boy I was bitten by a juvenile rattler while picking blackberries. Fortunately my Dad was with me at the time. Since then I am permanently petrified of snakes...Just my two cents...
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Understandable. When I had dogs I worried about that. We have a lot of copperheads around here. I generally relocate them though.
 
Pellet guns still sighted in, fast firing at 25 yards and slow at 20 yards.

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dad said:
I can assure you the 22 caliber pellet rifle if you plan on having to dispatch varmints is the smallest you should go. A 177 is only good for holes in paper. Having said that I highly recommend the Crossman Shockwave in 22 with the Nitro Piston technology. It is a great rifle. You can leave it cocked for long periods of time with out harming it and the knock down power is awesome even out to almost 50 yards. I topped mine with a UTG 4-16x40 scope all from Pyramid Air.
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Thank you sir. I looked up the Shockwave and it looks very similar to the Crossman air rifle (.177 caliber) I bought at Walmart when I lived in Arkansas a couple of years ago. Mine came with a scope is pretty accurate. I will agree that's more for punching holes in paper.
 
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