Beo
08-18-2008, 12:31 PM
Found this in the newest issue of Traditional Bowhunter (Love this Mag)
so tell me what you think.
By Dennis Kamstra (Staff Writer Traditional Bowhunter Magazine-Tips from the Old Timer-Aug-Sept 2008)
It is with trepidation that I approach the subject of "hunting" with rubber blunts. I can already see the hate mail regarding animal cruelty & harrassment. I openly admit to the love of smacking animals with rubber blunts. At the same time, I strongly believe that certain guidelines should be followed. Having said that, I also believe that there is no better practice than to shoot rubber blunts at live animals. It is ablsolutely the closest you can get to the real thing. Most bowhunters will only get a few chances all year to take a shot at a live animal (with broadheads). This type of non action is simply not enough to hone your hunting skills. But if one is to use rubber blunts on live animals, he must excerise some responsible thinking. Never shoot at thin skinned game this includes deer, antelope, coyote, etc, thinking that the blunt will do no harm. You can easily crack a rib bone of a deer, even big mule deer, with a rubber blunt. When I lived on a farm I used to routinely blunt our cattle and I am convinced that I never hurt any of them. Just think about roping or bull dogging yearling calves in a rodeo. That has got to produce more trauma than getting whacked with a rubber blunt. Hogs, wild or domestic, are fair game in my book, same goes for bear, elk, and moose.
Then it goes on blah blah blah about his friends who prefer to use rubber blunts on bears instead of broadheads, even during hunting season and how he shot girraffe and rhino's too and how it makes better confidence for the bowhunter. After the stories of his and his friends prowess it continues to say:
Notice how I keep refering to "rubber" blunts and not just blunts, never practice shooting at any animal with steel blunts or Judo Heads (which were made for small game and stump shooting and we do here in Ohio) You can definitely cause severe injury or even death with these heads, and there are also some no-no's with rubber blunting hunting. do not taper the business end of a wooden shaft as it can poke through the rubber and cause injury, same goes for mounting rubber over an aluminium broadhead adopter. My favorited way is to use aluminium or carbon shafts with screw in adapters thread a 100 grain steel blunt on the shaft and then slip a rubber blunt over the steel blunt, also use the big rubber blunts not the smaller ones intended for 5/16 shafts.
End of Article...
Me personally I 'd like to actually see him or his friends go out and whack a bear with the rubber blunt and pizz it off so it mauls them, or stand them out in a field and whack them with a rubber blunt so they know how it feels, while it may not do damage it has to hurt, annoy the animal and general is a load of crap on needing to do this to be a good shot.
I hunt with a custom made longbow and practice shooting it for hunting season and have taken my share of deer, wild pig, rabbit, and coyote with it after shooting only at a target. The confidence thing is a load of bull and if you don't have the confidence to it on a target you shouldn't be trying it on anything live.
What's your thoughts?
Beo
so tell me what you think.
By Dennis Kamstra (Staff Writer Traditional Bowhunter Magazine-Tips from the Old Timer-Aug-Sept 2008)
It is with trepidation that I approach the subject of "hunting" with rubber blunts. I can already see the hate mail regarding animal cruelty & harrassment. I openly admit to the love of smacking animals with rubber blunts. At the same time, I strongly believe that certain guidelines should be followed. Having said that, I also believe that there is no better practice than to shoot rubber blunts at live animals. It is ablsolutely the closest you can get to the real thing. Most bowhunters will only get a few chances all year to take a shot at a live animal (with broadheads). This type of non action is simply not enough to hone your hunting skills. But if one is to use rubber blunts on live animals, he must excerise some responsible thinking. Never shoot at thin skinned game this includes deer, antelope, coyote, etc, thinking that the blunt will do no harm. You can easily crack a rib bone of a deer, even big mule deer, with a rubber blunt. When I lived on a farm I used to routinely blunt our cattle and I am convinced that I never hurt any of them. Just think about roping or bull dogging yearling calves in a rodeo. That has got to produce more trauma than getting whacked with a rubber blunt. Hogs, wild or domestic, are fair game in my book, same goes for bear, elk, and moose.
Then it goes on blah blah blah about his friends who prefer to use rubber blunts on bears instead of broadheads, even during hunting season and how he shot girraffe and rhino's too and how it makes better confidence for the bowhunter. After the stories of his and his friends prowess it continues to say:
Notice how I keep refering to "rubber" blunts and not just blunts, never practice shooting at any animal with steel blunts or Judo Heads (which were made for small game and stump shooting and we do here in Ohio) You can definitely cause severe injury or even death with these heads, and there are also some no-no's with rubber blunting hunting. do not taper the business end of a wooden shaft as it can poke through the rubber and cause injury, same goes for mounting rubber over an aluminium broadhead adopter. My favorited way is to use aluminium or carbon shafts with screw in adapters thread a 100 grain steel blunt on the shaft and then slip a rubber blunt over the steel blunt, also use the big rubber blunts not the smaller ones intended for 5/16 shafts.
End of Article...
Me personally I 'd like to actually see him or his friends go out and whack a bear with the rubber blunt and pizz it off so it mauls them, or stand them out in a field and whack them with a rubber blunt so they know how it feels, while it may not do damage it has to hurt, annoy the animal and general is a load of crap on needing to do this to be a good shot.
I hunt with a custom made longbow and practice shooting it for hunting season and have taken my share of deer, wild pig, rabbit, and coyote with it after shooting only at a target. The confidence thing is a load of bull and if you don't have the confidence to it on a target you shouldn't be trying it on anything live.
What's your thoughts?
Beo