Dig,
Excellent post. I'm with you. I enjoy each type of shooting on its merits. The challenges are different but they can be very enjoyable in their own way. I have done very little driven shooting or preserve shooting, but what I have done has been fun and I would do it again
I followed the preserve vs. wild thread with interest. In a way, it reminded me of the "collector" vs. "shooter" thread from a year or so ago. In that thread, many viewed the the collector with some disdain (much like the preserve shooter). No one wanted to be tagged with the "collector" badge. Poster afeter poster attested how they were shooters, by God, and wouldn't own a gun just to have it just for the sake of owning it (and/or shooting it rarely.) Of course the reality that a lot of us the board have several more guns than we could reasonably argue we needed from a pure practicality standpoint did not figure prominently in the thread. (I know, I know, having a separate back-up, wet-weather loaner gun in 16 gauge choked for late season pheasant is purely a practical consideration, or so I tell my wife).
I'm rambling here, but my point is - 'to each his own.' It is a lot easier to look down on an occasional preserve shoot when you can step out your back porch and chase roosters. It is another to be somewhere you can't easily do that. Ditto for some of the hunting methods in other parts of the country or world. I think we need to be careful in how we view tradtions in other part of the world just because they are not the ones we grew up with.
Good shooting,
Ken
