Hey I just thought I would remind everyone that we now have a fishing column on the web site.
Hunting season is not far away, and I am sure it will go in that direction some in the fall.
Its not just about hunting and fishing though. It is also about our human relationship to the outdoors, to the wilderness, to nature, and even to animals.
Just posted the new one yesterday. I try to get it up there every thursday.
This is a local, Arkansas City, writer. This is the type thing I am looking for in columnists. People who can take on a subject and present good information.
I will post Dean Halls latest on the health page tomorrow
The hunting and fishing page is here
Yep - the more of God's creaures we can eliminate from this Earth, the better.
ReplyDeleteGotta loooove huntin and killin.
(And don't bother quoting your NRA newsletters, I've heard it)
I know, I know....you're all Mother-Earth lovin conservationists saving me from hitting a deer.
As a former deputy who work many many deer accidents, some of which injured drivers, you should be glad hunters are killing deer. The state allows a certain number of deer to be taken every year to thin them down, but the deer population has exploded and needs even more taken.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1900's there were an estimated 500,000 white-tailed deer in the United States.
Today there are over 20 million deer in the United States and numbers are rising.
If you don't like the killing of deer, don't kill any. But don't eat any meat of any kind either, because that would make you a hypocrite. McDonald's burgers come from cows you know. (At least that's what they claim).
I used to be opposed to deer hunting too, but that was before I saw the damage they cause. AND before I actually tried it. Now I'm hooked on bow hunting. Can't wait for the season to start.
Eat a salad....sheesh!
ReplyDeleteif you have never hit a @#$%$% deer i suggest you try hitting one in your car and see what you think about them. i got hit by one( he ran into me) and about totaled my truck. ask the on the motorcycle how it feels to hit one. cute maybe but dangerous. and no a tall fence won't work!
ReplyDeleteYou guys go ahead and keep killing em. And sleep tight. Guns are great, no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteHunting is part of our herritage that i fought for when i went to war to defend my country, if you do not like it move to england and get the hell out of America.
ReplyDeletehunter-gatherers followed the nomads in the human timeline. We now have grocery stores and clothes stores for those things. Breeding cows and pigs to be eaten, I can understand. But I just don't get taking arms into areas where wild animals live, and killing them.
ReplyDeleteI would not directly compare human life with animal life, but it seems a teensy bit hypocritical many pro-life GOPs are the biggest proponents of huntin and killin defenseless, unsuspecting creatures.
Hunting is a tradition and a big part of american culture, Hunters are the reason you have wildlife to look at and enjoy, do you donate to the chickadee fund when you file your income tax?
ReplyDeleteHUnting isnt like going into the woods and killing what ever you see.
I am also pro choice, how that has anything to do with hunting is beyond me.
by the way we do eat what we kill, you can argue all you want and eat all the grass you like, but Humans are carnvores wither you want to admit it or not.
The deer have a much better chance of survival than a cow which is fed in a pen then rounded up, out in a trailer, shiped many miles to be slaughtered with a metal shaft being jammed though its head, all while watching the many cows in front of them being killed in the same fashion,, wanna talk about sick unhuman treatment wow!
If you were out hunting instead of sitting on your but in front of your computer, you might have some real life use other than being a hypocrital complainer who buys there food in plastic bags and pollutes the environment for thousands of years
If the store would shut down what would you eat??? There is nothing wrong with hunting, at least like the poster above states, "they have a better chance of getting away". Send the first poster to the kill room at the slaughter house tp wittness how her hamburger/steak is made. Then see if she can eat another steak.
ReplyDelete4:59 Yeah, I sure enjoy watching the buffalo that dot the prairie!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments, NRA.
5:03 I worked slaughter at IBP, and I love steak.
5:03 I'll worry about the store closing when it does, OK??
4:59 If you haven't guessed, I'm a lib...of course I recycle, have for years. And I wouldn't equate killing helpless creatures with having "real life use." That is a truly idiotic statement.
2:10 Unless you're 80, you never defended our country. It's oil, perhaps. It's ideology, maybe. Grenada, Nam, Kuwait...protecting the world from evildoers is great and dandy, but c'mon. Our freedoms haven't been at risk for generations.
I wish yall would just read the column instead of taking pot shots at each other. ::)
ReplyDeletejust a suggestion.
think about the life of a cow in a feeding lot and a deer in the wild. Which is more .. humane or civilized to the animal?
Our society has pretty well gotten rid of predators, which is part of the reason there are so many deer.
As long as the meat is eaten and the hide used etc., ive no problem with it.
Hunters usually also take very good care of the environment.
I was only refering to your line "Hunting season is not far away."
ReplyDeleteI am an avid outdoorsman, I love the beauty of God's wonders. I just don't agree with "killin um."
I really liked the article.
BTW - to continue - I enjoyed your "pot shots" pun. Good one!
ReplyDeleteThere is a place in this world for all god's creatures.
ReplyDeleteRight next to the mashed potatos!
Stab 'em and slab 'em!
http://friendsofanimals.org/actionline/spring-2004/truth-about-hunting.html
ReplyDeleteTake some time and go out to the parts of nature that are remote and not useful for farming or ranching. Nature doesn't have a plan for keeping things neat and orderly! It does have a way of renewal through fire, disease etc.
ReplyDeleteThe point is that on its own alot of the abundnace of widlife we have today is becuase of mankind!
The Deer can reproduce because of the amount of food that is available through farming. It hasn't been that long ago that there weren't that many in this area! (You can thank or blame the farmers.) Just kidding!
Those cattle wouldn't be alive if they didn't have a purpose nor would many of the other species including those of plants and trees that have been developed and introduced into this and other areas.
In nature there is a delicate balance and man was given dominion over all the earth and its creatures he is the exception and the caretaker!
Sidenote: Does anyone know why we don't have
many Prairie Chickens in the area anymore?
I heard someone say it was because the farmers and ranchers weren't keeping their pastures clear of small trees (evergreens etc.) and that a Praire Chicken wouldn't lay her eggs close to a pearch for predators like hawks. (Within Something like 300ft.)
there never were prairie chickens in this area, 30 miles east, yes, do a online search kansas department of wildlife and parks has a nice info site for PC
ReplyDeleteI will hold a little pity party for you PETA nuts right after I stroke a big momma Doe walking along with it's cute little spotted fawns. Then I will make it suffer a little bit longer before dying, just for you. I'll be sure to tell the poor cute little deer babies standing around watching it's mommy die that I would never have taken a doe normally, but I had to do it for you whiners. Man, I can't wait for deer season! I may have to go out tonight and poach one just because of you people!
ReplyDeletethere never were prairie chickens in this area, 30 miles east, yes, do a online search kansas department of wildlife and parks has a nice info site for PC
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Sorry, but I used to hunt them North of Winfield and over by Dexter. There are still a few but there is not that many left in the area. The guy that told me about the issue with range management is an avid hunter.
FYI: Kansas Fish and Game says annual burning of pastures contributes to lower populations as there is little vegetation for nesting. Along with severe weather like large hail that often reduce the population.
ReplyDeleteHunters are the ones who preach and practice conservation more than anyone else. Pick up an issue of Field & Stream or Outdoor Life and read all the articles about conservation in there.
ReplyDeleteI'm talking about killin, not conservation. Is one not possible w/o the other?
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ReplyDeleteI know you would never do that; if you did, you wouldn't have a pic of yourself in your spiffy camo with your awesome buck to prove what a man you are. You need that rack to compensate for your...shall we say, inadequacies.
Have any of you ever seen a deer up close? I have watched many many deer walk beneath my tree stand, oblivious to the fact that I am there. They really are beautiful creatures, and I respect the grace and beauty of each and every one of them I have seen.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when I put an arrow through both lungs at 40 yards and watch them hobble 40 or 50 yards and then crash in the brush.
boy. who opened this can of worms? sorry i couldn't help it!
ReplyDelete"Thinning the herd"
ReplyDeleteI can think of a herd that needs thinning.