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Posted on 06/18/2009 8:42:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
Agreed...We lived in a very rural part of OR for 15 years and though it wouldn’t compare to your surroundings the predators in the area had a fear of man because they realized they could get shot at, that makes a huge difference.
Though it’s possible that a predator could confront you they have a tendency to avoid man.
Funny you mention that, that’s the model I’m going to buy. Why? Because I can afford it, while the $1900 Bennelli is a little out of my reach right now.
Who knows, I might like your wife?
LOL! Hope your wife is not a FReeper. :)
Yeah in Montana they have the 3S Rule.
Shoot, Shovel and Shut up.
Although you gotta find radio tags on the Grizzly and put it on a squirrel real fast.
Gunner
Then we need to hunt and kill an awful lot of wildlife because the Indians had hunted the continent until it was nearly bereft of game. They had extirpated two thirds of megafauna species to the point that Lewis and Clark went 18 days without seeing a single animal.
Indians were NOT conservationists.
No, he should have gunshot it with any fast varmint bullet. It will run for miles and die far from where it was shot.
Rather hard to to determine what rifle an exploding bullet came from in any case.
The illogic of the idea that we are inviting attacks by going into areas where the wild animals are is that humans from earliest times have gone into areas where the wild animals were and still are. Tell me a place on the globe where humans exist where there weren’t or aren’t any wild animals. The premise of these people is that we are inviting attacks from the creatures by inhabiting or venturing into previously totally wild areas. Actually these people want humans all balled up into huge megalopolises where venturing into the “wild” will be strictly controlled.
Disagree. Strongly.
Agree...lol.
Very good point and I couldn’t agree more.
For the most part people that move into wilderness type areas know exactly what they’re getting into, they’re not the ones complaining.
The people that move into housing tracts that are being built further and further into unpopulated areas and abut a wild area have every right to complain of predators roaming their neighborhoods, killing their pets and being a threat to their children.
The enviros don’t want those homes being built so they come up with the premise these people have to live with the predators. Ridiculous!
Not true. We have had bear in my area in the last several years and this boro has been settled for over 200 years and probably hadn't seen a bear in 150 years or more.
There are just a hell of a lot more bears and they realy like garbage cans.
There are always exceptions, what I said is not written in stone. Of course there are some places like where you live. All the more reason to open up the hunting regs.
Arguably the greatest single act of environmental destruction by humans in North America was the intentional burning by the Indians of the great Cumberland Valley that stretches from eastern Pennsylvania across Maryland and down the length of Virginia.
The primeval forest was destroyed and what remained became a barren grassland. Who knows how many species of flora and fauna were eliminated from this vast ecosystem. But for the Indian, the only important thing was to convert the area to grassland in order to more easily kill grazing herds of buffalo and deer with his primitive stone-age implements.
Indeed, early European visitors referred to the Cumberland Valley as "the barrens." By the time colonists began to settle in the valley, large stands of timber had returned in many places, but the original ecosystem was lost forever.
He didn’t notice a radio collar?
Don't know if he didn't notice it but probably had a somewhat naive attitude when dealing with bureaucrats. In other words didn't feel he did anything wrong in defending his livestock but got an expensive lesson in who had more “rights”
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