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Thursday, October 27. 2011

Happy Hunting Season

Happy Hunting, from Ricochet


Gun Ownership Soars To 18 Year High: 47% Of Americans Admit To Owning A Gun


Every red-blooded American kid should know how to handle firearms. And a lot of other things, too.


As I always say to my critical sisters, it's more morally consistent to kill your own food than to buy it at the supermarket after other people kill it.


Happy Hunting season to all Maggie's Farmers, whether you participate in the fun, or not.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc., Our Essays at 12:48 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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With my in-laws moving down to FLA, I took ownership of a pump action .22.

When I was growing up I had a 12 gauge and a .30-30. Loved both of them. Of course, before I got them, I had to take my firearms course - a full day long. It ended with them showing what can happen if you get shot. By shooting a gas can (full of water) from about 50-100 yards (I was young and distances seemed so different then).

My boys both own BB guns, and I took them to a shooting range so they could fire their grandfather's WWII carbine. Both have gone to indoor ranges where they've learned proper handgun procedure (though that should be repeated again).

Guns are wonderful. A good gun owner is a responsible, mature, and patient person. Generally. Funny how my urban friends all cringe when I start discussing gun ownership or hunting.
#1 Bulldog on 2011-10-27 13:36 (Reply)
Many urbanites associate guns with black and hispanic gangs and drug dealers. In most of America, guns are viewed as ordinary household tools.

But those urbanites don't have many tools, either...
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2011-10-27 13:41 (Reply)
Bird Dog. I had a computer crash a while back and lost my address book - including your email - I have been waiting for a hunting story post so that I could request an address for a forward. Please drop me a note.

HJBriscoe
#1.1.1 Harry Briscoe (Link) on 2011-10-28 09:31 (Reply)
BD, I like to shoot guns, but I don't hunt and have little interest in doing so. However, I agree completely with you on all counts.
#2 mudbug on 2011-10-27 13:42 (Reply)
Not a hunter but I love to shoot.

As soon as PeeWee football ends, the son will be back in the club's rifle class.
#3 NJSoldier on 2011-10-27 15:15 (Reply)
T/C Encore w/ two Triple 7 pellets and a 246 grain Green Belt...I'm looking forward to getting into the woods. I'll stick with the muzzle loader all season. Yeah, it's gonna' be a happy hunting season! Back at ya'....
#4 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-10-27 19:37 (Reply)
BD:
it's more morally consistent to kill your own food than to buy it at the supermarket after other people kill it.
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Interesting - the Jewish approach was to legally restrict kosher slaughter so that only a few - exposed to scholarly circles - would perform this act.

There's a famous saying that underscores the difference between the Jews and their tormentors: no Jewish child ever saw their mother wring a chicken's neck.
#5 Ben David on 2011-10-28 09:19 (Reply)
Norman Rockwell works are so slathered with talent and decency they almost hurt to look at --the pangs of nostalgia and all. Naw, tain't the times so much as the times of life.
#6 buddy larsen on 2011-10-28 09:19 (Reply)
As a landowner and non-hunter, I dread hunting season. Hunters are a nuisance and I don't particularly like them traipsing over my ground.

But if they ask I generally allow them to hunt. Why? Because once upon a time it was me that was looking for a place to hunt and I know what it is like from the landless hunter's point of view.

The hunters that ask permission are usually no trouble, but from the others I have to deal with cows escaping from gates left open, finding a dead cow mistaken for a deer and the pile of fast food wrappers and beer cans that seem to get left behind.

The deer need to be thinned annually but in general, hunting season? Just don't like it.
#7 feeblemind on 2011-10-30 09:14 (Reply)
I suspect the % is at least 10% more. Many, due to where they live, others because its not PC, and still more because friends & relatives won't approve. I've known all three.
#8 EthanP on 2011-12-09 15:41 (Reply)

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