Daryl,

Your post amounts to quite an attack on hunters who choose to use recently developed, more convenient and efficient firearms in this niche. I think your inference that fellows who choose to use recently developed and legal firearms are not true hunters and are scofflaws is ridiculous and rude as well.

I suppose that if you had been alive in the 1800's when workable breach loaders were developed you would have found their proponents poor hunter and unsportsman like scoff laws as well, eh?

And those know nothings that developed the top lever, just a bad sort.

And before that, it was just wrong to rely on the cap lock and its more ready ignition than to endure the flint lock.

But then the flintlock was a truly unreasonable advancement over the match lock, wasn't it?

Likewise as hammer guns were replaced by hammerless guns.

The development of cordite would have made you appoplectic, I'm sure.

Jeez, the development of jacketed bullets and their unsportsmanlike proponents, what to do, eh?

But really, rifling a barrel just adds way to much accuracy and range, doesn't it, so unsporting, eh? Only suitable for a scofflaw no doubt.

Oh, Lord, please no antomony in shot, and hell no to shoutgun wads. What a no good son of a gun to have discovered the shotgun choke!

Adjustable sights on rifle, what cad would do that!

Yipes, scoped rifles, how dare you heathens!

Good forbid any one use a brass cartridge with a non corosive primer. And those corosive primers are a wrongful advance over the good 'ol pinfire, what?

Damn those paper and then plastic shotshells, only brass will do!

How dare anyone actually use a repeating firearm, those lever actions are an unsporting abomination, and damn Paul Mauser!

JPK