Thread: Hunting With No FAL

Originally Posted by screamO

yep here we go, where will this thread end up?
I know where your coming from on this one Dundee, I think the appropriate answer is NO he can't do what he want's! I'm guessing by some of your other posts with your family, your boy isn't stupid and you have taught him the ins and outs of firearms safety and hunting which is a lot more than a 25yr old who has just got his FAL and never touched a gun, but it's still wrong even thou he might be the safest hunter out there. I'm sure you don't let him drive your car / tractor around by him self either as he's not old enough to have a licence......yea right I think the saying goes. How old was the guy down south who shot a hunter?
It's a hard one to say no to when your probably the biggest influence in his need to go hunting and prove him self.
I know the rules don't change just because you live on a farm, but lets be fair they do! I'm sure there will be some bad replies from that comment but heeee that's the point of having these discussions.

I don,t think your comment about farms rules are out of whack.
A farm is private property and most of us brought up on farms were driving farm utes,tractors and more often now quads.
Same goes for rifles and hunting .
City kids Vs Farm kids all have there own set of rules .
Take a farm kid into say Auckland and he or she would be overwhelm by catching a train or bus to a suburb nor would the parents be relaxed with idea where the city kid would take it as a normal occurance as would the parents .
Put the same family onto a farm and the parents and or child would not be comforable with son or daughter jumping on the quad or ute with a rifle to head off for a hunt alone.