Hunting with a Tavor

[Gaoler]

Shooting prairie dogs with my AR15...
A gun is a gun.

[Tactical870]

If only we could do that here.....

[smallgamer]

I like black guns, camo guns, wood guns, stainless, blue. Just not rusty. Denigrating anyone who hunts with a black gun is disrespectful to the firearms community as a whole. As long as the rifle is legal and the hunter is ethical, have at 'er.

"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."

-- Benjamin Franklin

[300wsm]

Very well said smallgamer.

[contaucreek]

We bought 10 SKS' last fall at our camp and the first Deer fell to one. I gather our gang will have a few afield on any given day this November.

We all hunt so as long as the tackle is legal we need to stick together, no name calling that this thread had in the beginning.

The man who hunts with a selfbow should hold the same respect among his peers as the man who hunts with a scoped bolt gun.

[skeeter1]

We bought 10 SKS' last fall at our camp and the first Deer fell to one. I gather our gang will have a few afield on any given day this November.

We all hunt so as long as the tackle is legal we need to stick together, no name calling that this thread had in the beginning.

The man who hunts with a selfbow should hold the same respect among his peers as the man who hunts with a scoped bolt gun.

I don't think the posts at the beginning were based so much on the gun, rather the ridiculous comments by the OP that have since been deleted, if someone wants to go out and responsibly use any legal firearm then go ahead, but if you want to go out and just blast away potentially wounding game, then I have a problem with that and so should you. If you do want to practise spray and pray, keep it on the range.

[smallgamer]

Very well said smallgamer.

Thank you.

[Pat32rf]

There are hundreds of hunt camps out there where everyone on the line is expected to shoot at any legal deer that the hounds run through. The shooting will probably be fast and you will not have time to pick your shots. In 25 years at one of these camps I shot at three deer, killed one of them. Used levers, bolts and emptied the gun twice.
The past dozen years I have hunted alone and get my deer almost every year, with a single shot Ruger #1. If I were to return to a camp shoot where others were counting on me to kill, then I would be using some kind of repeater, either blue, black or camo!

[Flyer]

I skipped ahead after about page 12 because I had to jump in. Awesome to see so many people that share the passion for hunting..

As my first post I might be taking a risk here.. I think a tan or camo color/pattern tavor, especially with a matching optic, could fairly easily become an accepted, non-attention-grabbing, hunting gun. Passersby would not be as startled because its appearance would be, well, camouflaged and the camo would help them believe that it is for hunting.

How the hunter handles him or herself around others while with the gun could also make or break its reception. I would avoid any of the "military, bad, tacticool" connotations and casually explaining that it's funky looks are ergonomically-based and it is known to be a very well-built, reliable and sufficiently accurate gun (quick search didn't give me any certain data, but seems it would be suitable up to at least 300 yards). They might not be totally won over, but at least they'll get the sense that maybe you aren't a whack job criminal and that the gun is indeed, only an inanimate object.

I think if anyone's going to hunt with non-resticted, but "scary" guns, they just have to be willing to acknowledge and help remove the stigma that comes with them. Really, the same could be said for hunting/shooting in general.

[trimmer21]

Holy necro-post,batman. Where did you find this relic? Welcome to the forum,BTW,I notice this is your first post.