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In <1992Nov16.204430.5296@atlastele.com> dsmith@atlastele.com (Doug Smith) writes:

>I know little about guns and even less about hunting, but do people
>use shotguns to hunt deer with? 

Yes, they're very common.  Usually used with slugs or very
large shot, not the little birdshot you're probably
associating with shotguns.

>Don't you need to be close to
>your target when using a shotgun? 

Closer than with a rifle, certainly.  That's one reason
shotguns are used -- less likely to carry on a mile past
your target if you miss.

>Also, isn't it illegal to discharge
>a firearm across a road?

Most places it is illegal, but unfortunately there are
plenty of people who ignore such laws.

>The shooter is at least criminally negligent, and more likely is
>gun toting, crotch scratching, whiskey swilling in-bred hill
>billy who hangs out in the woods looking for 'runner-boys' with
>pretty mouths.

From what my brother tells me of elk season in Eastern
Washington, the biggest problem is young, gun-ignorant,
self-important yuppies from the cities of Western Washington
who can buy the biggest guns and fanciest trucks but
wouldn't know the difference bewteen a bull elk and a
guernsey without a reference manual.  They have no woods
sense, have almost no practice with their guns, and like to
set up generators in camp to run their stereos while getting
drunk at night.  If they aren't hunting drunk, they're
getting overexcited and shooting anything that moves.
Despite having no idea what they're doing, they have too
much ego to accept even the most well-intended advice from
more experienced hunters.  (They also have trouble with the
idea of my sister-in-law bowhunting, as if that was just a
macho male thing to do.)
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