From a perspective of a person who "hunts" in the grocery store for her meat and feels that the shooting of wildlife is a necessary evil because the human race keeps infringing on the land...taking more and more away...so that, of course, we are overrun with wildlife (<---most hunter's validation statement) in populated areas...I have this to say...

I appreciate a means to hunting that makes it more fair to the unsuspecting animal who has no idea why it has so little land now to graze and raise it's young!

Sounds to me that hunting with an atlatl will at least give the hunted a running chance fore the lack of accuracy of a shotgun and other more accurate methods. Though I have to admit that one shot of a gun and a miss will alert the animals within earshot to get the hell out of there!

Hey! Don't ever take me hunting! I'll pee on every spot I stop at and I'll whistle and sing and cough and yell the entire time we are in the woods and your gun (or atlatl) is loaded! LMFAO!

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