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Post by Gilberto on Dec 22, 2009 10:52:12 GMT -5
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Post by lynn on Dec 22, 2009 21:44:23 GMT -5
ha ha ha baby alligator
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Post by Gilberto on Dec 23, 2009 8:18:49 GMT -5
Oh, that story gets weirder. Believe me.
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Post by professordave on Dec 24, 2009 16:24:03 GMT -5
Liking the story so far. Can't wait to find out what happens to the gator. I don't really know what hunters call those areas where the field dress animals either. I do know they call removing the internal organs "field dressing." They also call the room with a cooler a "cool room," where the keep the carcasses.
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Post by Gilberto on Dec 25, 2009 16:29:57 GMT -5
What happens next should come as no surprise to you, Professor. As you know, I'm not one for twist endings.
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Post by professordave on Dec 30, 2009 22:35:32 GMT -5
I read part 2 of Bayou Barbecue, and I can understand some of your feelings about hunting and killing. I hunted when I was younger, small game and birds mostly, but stopped when I didn't enjoy it anymore. Rationally I realize that hunting is part of the human condition, that it thins out animal populations that would soon starve to death due to overgrazing and lack of natural predators. But I was killing for sport and not necessity, and it became too hard to justify in my mind. Taking any life, even the life of an alligator, should be a hard thing to do. I totally agree with the paying respect to the alligator, which is a dangerous creature. Many hunters do respect nature, more so than people who don't hunt, and are also strong conservationists.
And if I'm ever the best man at a wedding again, I'm gonna totally steal that speech. It was excellent!
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Post by Gilberto on Jan 1, 2010 19:43:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not one for hunting but I try not to judge what other people do. It was a somewhat disturbing spectacle to behold though.
As for the best man speech, I'm pretty sure that will be my one and only chance, so I figured I had to make it good. Normally I don't go for corny, but you play to your audience.
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Post by gretl on Jan 3, 2010 11:52:24 GMT -5
Good to see you blogging, Sean! Wild game has always been a dietary staple in my little corner of the world, so I don't hold hunting against people. And I get that it can be a good way to manage the human impact on animal populations, or a humane way to assist "Mother Nature's plan" (although removing a carcass from the woods is interfering in the food chain.) But sport killing is on a very short list of things that make me question a person's moral judgment. Sorry. It doesn't help that this happened less than a half mile from my house last week:
"Penned in pasture, valley elk easy prey for hunters" (it's a photo essay ... click through the pics and read the captions and the HeraldNet newspaper article if you want the story. )  |
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Post by lynn on Jan 6, 2010 23:27:58 GMT -5
I don't like sport hunting either. I am a happy meat eater, but killing stuff just because it's there doesn't make much sense to me.
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Post by Scary Gary on Jan 7, 2010 7:20:33 GMT -5
Don't look at it like it is "killing it just because it is there"; look at it like it is post-apocalyptic survival practice.  |
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Post by lynn on Jan 7, 2010 18:37:00 GMT -5
It's survival practice if you learnt to cook and eat what you kill, not if you just kill it for a laugh. I don't understand the idea of hunting to prove something about how much more important and powerful you are than the animal, like people who shoot stuff that's not moving or stuck in something, just for the rush of murdering an animal and laughing about it after. There's nothing heroic about it. Kill to eat whatever, but killing for kicks is useless.
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Post by Scary Gary on Jan 7, 2010 18:46:14 GMT -5
I couldn't agree more.
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