HUNTING

[Cynical Ninja]

I am almost becoming like a fucking militant anti-animal cruelty meme, along with cruelty to children nothing pisses me off more.

[IMaDick]

There is nothing more fun than hunting birds, none of those little fuckers deserve to live and very few do if they fly over my blind.

[Duchess]

There is nothing more fun than hunting birds

LC, Dick thinks it would be fun to kill your beautiful birds.

[Lady Cop]

it's funny, everyone has probably seen my photos of the whole herd of wild turkeys i have befriended. they entertain me, and come to my door each day. they're beautiful. and HUGE. i have made them pets. but i understand the lure of hunting them. Maggot hunts them with a bow for food, and to me that is no different than the Pilgrims who learned to hunt them here from the Indians.

but if he came here and shot my turkeys, i'd shoot his ass!
hahahahaha

my pets at the door--->

[Lady Cop]

There is nothing more fun than hunting birds

LC, Dick thinks it would be fun to kill your beautiful birds.

well it is a hunter's thread.

[Duchess]

well it is a hunter's thread.

Somehow I didn't find that to be relevant at all. Hahahaha!

[Duchess]

And I don't know why I find that so damn amusing.

[thekid65]

Hunting with dogs is kickass..it's a lot of fun watching your dog do what he loves, and what he was born/bread/trained to do. I did a lot of bird hunting back in the day with "Rusty". Good times, man, good times. Seeing him get the scent of Quaill/Chuckar/Pheasant..making the point and holding until I flushed and shot the bird, and then having him retrieve the bird to my hand. Makes a Papa proud.

However, the fox hunt thing that Puddly describes really sounds like bullshit, and not very sporting at all.

[Mohammed]

Ahhh, I didnt realize the hounds did the killing, thought that was done by a human with a gun, and that the hounds just found/cornered the fox.

Yeah, that doesnt sound like a whole lot of fun to me.

It's pretty simple really, the English are at the top of the world with their socialising variety of sport. The fun is not in achieving your goal but the process of it, as well as getting totally and utterly sloshed during the process.

Look at Cricket. 3 days?? Anybody else on the planet goes "You for real?!", but it takes an Englishman to fully appreciate that 3 day process and the opportunity it gives him to drown as many pints or G&T's as possible during that time as well as giving their typical smart ass comments.

Then we come to Golf, which is nothing else but spending bonding moments walking across the country side.

Of course there is Lawn Criquet as well and the afore mentioned Fox Hunt. Hundreds of people and dogs after a single Fox? Get real, it is nothing else but an opportunity to try and show of your elitist standing as well as trying to get into Elizabeth's knockers, two very important aspects of the British life style.

That's why America is so different because it was mainly the peasants from England moving there. They didn't know any different but from doing things all by themselves. Just like Dick really.

[BlueTiki]

It's pretty simple really, the English are at the top of the world with their socialising variety of sport. The fun is not in achieving your goal but the process of it, as well as getting totally and utterly sloshed during the process.

Get real, it is nothing else but an opportunity to try and show of your elitist standing . . .

Ahhhhh! But, lest we forget the ubiquitous Tail-Gate gatherings.

Pure American blue-collar elitism . . . displaying official league gear.

[Duchess]

Go Eagles!

[BlueTiki]

Yankee Elitist!

[Duchess]

[ZEROSPHERES]

We keep our hunting Close to Home

[westy]

Quite a big 9 pointer I shot right at the end of the roar before last.

[westy]

A 300lb+ 8 pointer I shot last roar.
The rifle is a 338win magnum with a 3-12x50 Schmidt & Bender on top.

[Mohammed]

That's the beauty about the States, the equipment you get there at the most ridiculous prices in the world.

Nice!

[Lady Cop]

hahahahaha Maggot! this is what happens to people who want to hurt cute little squirrels!
eat worms!


AP Memphis Tenn.
A man who became separated from his friends in dense forest during a squirrel hunting trip in western Tennessee says he ate worms and drank muddy water to survive five days in the wild before he was found.

Bill Lawrence said he gathered rainwater in his hunting vest and tried to stay calm throughout his ordeal. Authorities say they conducted the longest search in decades in the 13,000-acre Meeman Shelby Forest State Park before the man was discovered Sunday.

Lawrence lost sight of his two hunting buddies on Aug. 31 while chasing a squirrel and became alarmed when his shots were the only ones he could hear, The Commercial Appeal reported (http://bit.ly/pakvdz).

"This is when I got turned around," said Lawrence, a corrections officer, adding he tried in vain to find his friends or their truck.

At the time he became separated, Lawrence was clad in camouflage pants and jacket, a hat and snake boots.

His friends reporting him as missing. Searchers used trained dogs, horses, all-terrain vehicles, boats, police vehicles and helicopters as they scoured the thick woods.

Meanwhile, Lawrence kept walking, searching for food and water.

"I was drinking muddy water ... eating worms. Yeah, I'd seen that on TV. I ate worms."

Lawrence said he had a shotgun, 15 shells, 2 bottles of water, a flashlight, a can of bug spray, a squirrel call and a can of dipping tobacco. But he did not have a cell phone to summon help.

He shot his gun whenever he thought he heard someone, but his shotgun shells ran out on Saturday.

"Everything was against him from the very beginning," Park Manager Steve Smith said, noting the helicopter spotters had difficulty peering into the dense forest canopy and searchers were hampered by extreme heat.

Messages left by The Associated Press at the park office for Smith were not immediately returned. A telephone listing for Lawrence couldn't be located.

Lawrence eventually reached a road on Sunday. It was about three miles from where he started out, but Lawrence estimated that he had covered about 35 miles by then.

Lawrence said he collapsed and was found by some passers-by.

"Man I was happy," he said. "I laid down in that road and just sat there. ... By then I was just wore out."

Authorities said Lawrence suffered from dehydration and severe insect bites. He was taking antibiotics because of the things he ate in the forest.

[Lady Cop]

A hunter has described the moment he slayed an 800lb wild pig - with a crossbow.

Winston Brown was in Rush Springs, Oaklahoma, when he was confronted by the beast.

Brown says he had seen the animal's tracks before but had never spotted the pig itself.

According to the State Department of Agriculture, wild hogs are a problem in the state, with thousands roaming the countryside destroying crops and disrupting wildlife.

They are carnivorous, can be dangerous if cornered and will attack.





the hoof

[Harvest Moon]

I never, ever thought I would be posting in a hunting thread. But I went out hunting with my husband for the first time yesterday. On Sundays, you can only hunt with a bow in our county. We went out at about 4:00 in the afternoon and climbed up in the tree stand. Waited and watched for 4 hours and saw no game animals, but being out there sitting in a tree was truly amazing. When hunting your senses are raised to a new level. If you think you hear/see something the adrenaline starts rushing. Sight, sounds and smells become more acute. If it turns out to be "just" a hawk, owl, fox, raccoon, etc. that is perfectly fine, because you just got to watch that bird or animal in its natural environment.

While I am not about the blood and guts part of hunting and will probably close my eyes at the point of an actual kill, the experience is something I'll continue to pursue.

On the other hand, I have recently discovered that I love venison. We both love to cook and I particularly love to learn how to cook new things. So I will be thrilled if my husband manages to get a deer and we have already started planning the many ways we can prepare it.