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Tim Carney's comment about Maryland deer hunting is incorrect, as Norm mentions. However, Norm is also only partially correct. Rifles are allowed for the hunting of deer in different parts of Maryland, both East and West. However, my first and last Maryland deer was taken with a shotgun, a Kolar tubed Krieghoff Model 32 with 28 gauge tubes in place, loaded with 3/4 ounce of #9 hard shot in once fired AA cases. It was a one shot, clean kill at rather short range.

Jerry,

Maybe you're talking about mainland Europe when you say that hunting wasn't allowed the common man and still isn't to this day. I've never hunted there so don't know specific details.

I know that in the UK most of the gunners are "common men" and I've shot with a bunch of them. Just like here, you can get permission and shoot on a farm, lease land to gun over, or pay for days on an estate. Everything below the high tide mark is public land and can be gunned for wildfowl by anybody with a shotgun permit. In England you have to be a member of a fowling club to do it, but in Scotland it's not even that much trouble.

I know plenty of plumbers, diesel mechanics, and greenskeepers that run their own gameshoots. A good friend leases some land from the forestry commission and runs a dandy driven woodcock shoot. He mows grass for a living during the off season, a "common man" all the way but a gentleman without peer.


Destry

"I don't wish to rain on your parade, but most American boys I know could not hit a running deer or anything else for that matter"
Come on now Jagermeister, isn't that what the British said before running into our "Kentucky Rifles"!
All the best

I would think the common man in the UK could manage only an odd day late in the season. Most moors are well beyond his wildest dreams.

I think most of the deer around here are shot during drives, with both drivers and posters getting shots in open country. I organize a drive on the last day of season for those who have not filled their tags. We push out my 26-acre woody planting and usually fill one or two tags. None of the drivers carry guns and none of the shooters shoot into the trees. The local hunters really appreciate my doing this.

I have shot only the un-hurried deer.
I like to have a look before pulling the trigger.
A buck with great genes lives another day, I have only shot middlin' quality deer.