Are you a hunter or a shooter?

[Big10gauge]

After 49 yrs of hunting I just want to be in the woods or out in the sagebrush, it's getting easier every year to pass up shots and just watch. We do try to get a couple of deer each year or a elk just because we like making our own sausage, otherwise I'd be out shooting predators. I actually spent more time hunting predators during archery elk this year than elk. So I guess I'm a hunter than occasionally shoots? Now like Falfire said, coyotes are whole different ballgame. I've spent the last 2 months just working up a load for my new 20 tactical AR, once I find the load I want I figure to load up about a 1000 rounds. I think that puts it in the shooter list. 

[grundy53]

HUNTER. i live for the hunt.

[WDFW-SUX]

hunter who shoots.

I shoot alot...

[KimberRich]

Definitely Hunter.

I don't shoot near as much as I probably should to be classified as a "shooter".  Don't get me wrong.. I load most my own ammo and hit the range a little but I'm personally happy with 1.5" groups from my deer gun and would rather spend more time in the woods than at the range.   

[CMG]

Hunter - That's the only time I shoot. I like to put meat in the freezer, but it's not a must for survival.   

[alecvg]

Hunter.  I love shooting guns, and reloading ammo.  But I get really bored of the range, and of shooting.  I much rather be calling geese into decoys, or glassing a big muley working his does.  I am a hunter.

[hunterofelk]

Hunter, but the shooting and reloading is a hobby. 

[Kent Hunter]

I've gone 180 degrees as I've gotten older. When I was young I was a "hunter" period. Now I would say I'm a "shooter" who likes to hunt. Dad always pounded it into me that "hail mary" shots at long distances just were not the right thing to do. ALWAYS try and make a one shot clean kill or DON'T pull the trigger!
 Now days when I hunt, it's all about accuracy. That's where I get my thrills. I don't look for long distance shots, but when the animal and conditions are right, I get a real thrill of settling in and taking my time and putting that bullet right where I want it. As I've gotten older I enjoy going to the range and just shooting also. When I was young I would go to the range just before deer season and shoot maybe four or five rounds just to make sure my rifle was still "on".

[Jamieb]

Both.
10 months of the year I'm a shooter that hunts yotes. 2 months of the year I'm a hunter, some years I bow hunt deer and elk so for a couple of months I might not shoot a rifle at all.

[quadrafire]

hunter
I'm actually to a point where I don't really care to shoot anything except with my camera.

OK   No more dead animal pics


Except from your daughter!

[woodswalker]

Hunter, but the shooting and reloading is a hobby. Outdoorsman too...I LIKE getting out in the weeds and just letting the life pressures sliiiide off. 

[bow-n-head]

I only shoot because I need to to hunt. I should shoot more.

[Lightning_Rider]

Hunter who fully enjoys and appreciates shooting as well!

[Annette]

OK, I'll bite    I'm a shooter. I can tell because I love to shoot pinecones, targets, dirt banks, small game and large game....love it all and I shoot all year around.    yup...I'm a shooter
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[RockChuck]

  I am a shooter/Meat Hunter