Quick question - why no stock ties in hunters?

[Madeline]

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This is surprising. I always thought the purpose of a stock tie was to make a sling or bandage if needed out in the hunt field. I have never heard of anyone being injured by a stock pin.[/QUOTE]

That is the reason, and in 12 years of hunting I never saw or heard of anyone getting stabbed. Besides, what good does it do if you have a bandage/sling and no way to secure it?

On the other hand, show hunters is so far removed from actual hunters that there’s no need for practical things.

[In1]

If Pony Club, the (some might say) overzealous safety-Nazis, rule stock pins to be okay then I’m going to imagine the stabbed-in-the-jugular-bleed-out scenario is one of our imaginations.

[Trixie]

I don’t know, IIRC our 4-H club 20-some years ago gave us some hell about the safety of safety pins. THINK OF THE CHILDREN! :lol: