1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae]

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Icelander

By 'predator gun', I mean a gun for foxes/bobcats and coyotes* that will not damage their fur too much.

Perhaps it's just a total lack of fur-hunting in Florida but when I was reading a lot of gun magazines in this period (no internet so I read hand-me-down copies of Guns&Ammo, Shooting Times and American Rifleman along many other miscellaneous things) I didn't read about fur-hunting there either.

The article I read about coyote-hunting out west had that being done for bounties/government payments and the fur was not harvested.

If you've got your Maine sources about fur-hunting that's fine and go right ahead but it seems terribly, terribly odd to me, especially in the context of blood-sport for the wealthy. I thought pelts were mostly gathered by trapping and it was an activity for pretty marginal back-woodsers.