by RichieRich 30 Replies latest jw friends
Normally I have no problem with people hunting, especially if done for food, but I am feeling a bit down on it today in the wake of our noticing a bunny rabbit scampering around our yard last night with an arrow penetrating all the way through his neck. I have no idea how he was still on his feet, but I wanted to strangle whoever put the arrow into him.
People who do things like that give us all a bad name. I always try to refrain shooting when I can't kill.
Do the turkeys have large talons?
BIRD KILLER!
Richie sweet, you should stick to picking on something your own size, that doesn't have a brain the size of a pea, and knows how to shoot a rifle;) Where's the competition I ask in pickin on a big ol turkey??! I guess I just don't have the hunter gatherer mentality...
Thanks for sharing with us your interests, perhaps I'll take some shots of my beer bottletop collection and post them here?? hehe. Frog of the doesn't really have a bottletop collection, but would be cool if she did class
Turkeys are everyehere around here. I almost hit one driving in town the other week. When I was a teen there were no turkeys in this area of the county. I love to see them out in the fields.
Ken P.
I always used the rede calls you put in your mouth from Primo, but I've used some box calls a couple of times.
Normally I have no problem with people hunting, especially if done for food, but I am feeling a bit down on it today in the wake of our noticing a bunny rabbit scampering around our yard last night with an arrow penetrating all the way through his neck. I have no idea how he was still on his feet, but I wanted to strangle whoever put the arrow into him.
Your outrage is to be comended, yet I am compeled to ask, Did you dispatch the bunny? If you let him scamper about, wounded, you are no more moral than the nitwit who let loose a non-lethal shot. I could go on and on about how the guy who took a bad shot at the bunny had some terrible childhood or too much sugar in his cereal but I wont.
How many of you would be willing to shoot a dog or cat to put it out of it's misery? Or a road hit deer? We are willing to let criminals rule the streets, yet as individuals we are not willing to "dirty" ourselves by "killing". I guess turning a slick-mouthed old horse out on the range for the wolves and 'yotes is less moral than digging a hole and letting a dose of chemicals shut him down?
Our society as a whole is loosing the will to survive on it's own. I notice the liberal ilke that berates hunting usually extends their ideas to domestic meat production. Ya'all just dont get... some things eat other things... that's the way it is....the way it should be. If most people knew what it takes to get a hog to aisle 12 at the local market they would starve or take up hunting.
Richie... nice turkey. For you non-hunters ot there turkeys are some of the most savvy, wary, paronoid creatures on this planet. Most states regulate the firearms that you can be used to short distance weapons... a hunter may spend a week trying to get a legal sized bird close enough to shoot
We call it a sport because it is. The animal is in his element, the state has altered any human advantage by limiting season and equipment.
Killing is not always wrong. Some killers are sick. What a paradox.
~Hill
Hillbilly and Richie,
I agree with you totally. If your shot isn't going to be a clean kill, don't take it. I can remember on one occasion tracking a deed for 3 hours until we could get a clear enough shot to finally put it down. My grandfather hunted in the winter and fished in the summer and ate everything he shot. As my son was growing up, I took him hunting (yes, Mom took him hunting...because Dad couldn't always be counted on to be home to take him!), if he shot it he ate it. One of these days I'll tell you about the Quail on wild rice!
Whoever shot that rabbit wasn't hunting they were being sadistic.......I'd check the area......you may have the next serial sexual predator living very close to you!
Richie that was one gorgeous turkey....I think I'm going to go to a friends hunting camp in Georgia next season and try turkey hunting. I've done Duck, Geese, Rabbit, Squirrel and Deer but never turkey!
Carol- go for it!
Turkey hunting is harder than deer. But just as fun.
Did you ever get my last PM?
"If Gawd didn't want us to eat animals....why are they made out of meat?"
u/d (of the ask a stupid question class)
