What do we care what Europeans think. We can go hunting almost any time we want all year long. Can they? We can drive to the edge of town and take up our firearm and start hunting. Can they? We have a second ammendment. Do they? Even guys of modest means often own small arsenals. Do they. A few rich guys who might own one or two guns and hunt a couple days a year knows what is better than a guy who literaly lives with a gun in hand?
Baa Humbug I say.
Oh how I love the closed mind and view of some
Also I love being regarded as Rich........................... if only it was true
as for hunting well let's see I can only speak of the UK and mainly England but let's start with small game and Rabbits (Bob Tails) well not only is there no season on them they are classed as an agricultural pest, not quite vermin but close, no possession limits and if you shoot clean ones (head shots) then you can also sell them to the Butcher or game dealer.
Deer Stalking (hunting) there is no limit to the amount you can possess and you can also sell Venision again to any outlet. In the last year there has been some changes brought in by Europe about Hygeine and to sell venision now for human consumption you need a Hygiene certificate
never been a problem in the past but thos Eurocrats have to do something to justify their exhobitant pay packets. The only day it's not legal to hunt is Christmas day, Sunday has a few other restrictions but they are not onerous really. No game licence is required in England and Wales. Scotland still retains it for the moment at least but the licence costs about $10 for a year.
As for rifles well my own small collection runs into the dozens
and I am on a very low fixed income. Prices are high here for instance I just brought a tub of H4381SC powder which cost £32 ($52 US). Bullets are equally expensive which is one reason I am shooting my .222 Rem chambered rifle more now as it's cheaper. A box of Remington Express 165 Gr Core-Lockt in .280 cost over $64 US which is a rip off.
The drawbacks are that we have no public land hunting......................... I do my Deer Stalking by the outing or day and pay for it as such my last one was a successful hunt for a Roe Buck last April. Due to other things like Dad being ill and Mother falling and breaking her coller bone and a bone in her groin I have had me shooting severly restricted due to caring for them both.
As for Optics well I try to get the best I can which usually means used for me. Just recently I cquired a Lisenfeld (German) 6x42 Jaguar scope which in my opinion beats the Leupolds I have hands down. I also have a Lisenfeld 3-9x42 and usually have it set on 6x mag but when sighting in for a new load or switching brands of ammo I use it on 9x as recomended and the funny thing is that I don't have to move my head forwards on the stock unlike with the Leuopld Vari X 111 2.5-8 that I have. There is not reason that the American makers cannot use the same quality of glass and coatings but then the prices would be higher and the average American shooter would not buy at those prices. They expect it to cost very little but be as good and that is siimply not going to happen.