They Hunt!

Gun Watch ^ | 29 June, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Young Hunter with Canadian Goose and 20 gauge 870

A few years ago, a relative of mine was visiting his sister in a Midwestern college town. The sister and her husband have done well. They have two lovely children and are in the upper middle class. The husband is an entrepreneur and a developer. The sister and kids are athletic.

My relative is an accomplished woodsman, hunter, and shooter. He is not above a play on words or a practical joke.  He shares an opinion with Thomas Jefferson. Ball games do not impress him. He followed Jefferson's advise on exercise:

"...I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprize, and independance to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."1

He taught his children how to shoot at an early age. Their home is on the edge of semi-wilderness. Bears in the yard are not uncommon. The garden has to be protected from deer and rabbits. Wolves roam nearby.

He accompanied his sister to a local soccer practice. The kids were playing and the half dozen other soccer moms were in conversation.

One of them attempted to include the brother. She asked if he had children. He said he did.

How many? A boy and a girl.

She politely asked: Do your kids play soccer?

No, he said, they don't play soccer.

Do they play basketball?

No, they don't play basketball?

Do they play baseball?

No, he said, they don't play baseball.

By this time the other soccer moms were interested and were listening intently to the exchange.

The questioner asked, finally, What do your kids do?

The brother said, nonchalantly, deadpan, with a slight shrug, as if it were of no particular interest:

"They kill stuff."

Six jaws dropped toward the floor. The sister, with only the slightest of hesitations, exclaimed:  They're hunters!  They hunt!

The sister's children are also accomplished hunters. Her husband hunts as well.

Part of hunting is killing. Killing used to be an understood necessity. All of society understood the necessity a hundred years, or even sixty years ago.

I told an 88-year-old friend, who tends liberal, and who lives in the same mid-western college town, of the exchange, which happened more than a decade ago.

She burst out laughing. We discussed it. She said she found it to be hilarious.

As a retired nurse, she understood the realities of life and death well. Her husband had been a hunter, a soldier, a musician, had a B.A. in music, and had stopped just short of an M.A. in music to be a professional meat cutter. It paid
better.

The older generation had a better understanding of basic realities.

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[marktwain]

People who realize meat comes from living animals have a closer understanding of reality than those who think meat comes from a store.

[KingLudd]

A liberal 88 year old woman finds hunting hilarious. That’s bizarre.

[Red Badger]

Every 6th grade class should have a field trip to a packing house.................

[JudyinCanada]

My grandbabies hunt. The little girl (7) and little boy (5) started going out with their dad and mom (my daughter) pretty early on. The little one hasn’t been out yet (she’s 3 lol) but will be, soon enough. They’ve mostly gotten some Canada geese, but hoping for turkey soon, and some ducks. They love it. I have a picture of them with the Canada geese lined up along the tailgate of the truck - parent and three kids in camo. It’s one of my favourite pictures lol.

[marktwain]

A liberal 88 year old woman finds hunting hilarious. That’s bizarre.

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I would say she finds the reaction of the soccer moms humorous.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good Article!

I have fished since I was a little kid, learned to hunt from my first husband (RIP, Baby!) and got my first doe under his instruction when I was 22.

I cannot tell you the number of deer I’ve butchered through the years - we’d play, ‘Deer CSI’ with the boys so they’d have a better understanding of deer anatomy and where to take the best shot for, ‘one shot, one kill.’

My boys never did get into hunting as much as I did, but the man I’m engaged to now is an AVID hunter and VERY accomplished. I’ve helped him butcher hogs, steer, deer, and bear.

Nothing better than Kill It and Grill It. People just don’t know what they’re missing out on! :)

[marktwain]

Who knew you were in the market?

Congratulations on your fiancee.

[umgud]

My girlfriend helps clean and butcher everything I kill.......and everything she kills too. Both of us cook and eat the meat.

[riverrunner]

It is always fun to bait anti’s

[Manly Warrior]

I never thought of using anti as bait? Is it legal? Who knew!!!

[riverrunner]

Only for bears and wolves

[Jemian]

Why do we have to kill cows to get our steaks when we could just go down to Longhorn?

[School of Rational Thought]

That is a “Canada” Goose not a “Canadian” Goose.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

He wanted to, ‘Wife Me’ as soon as he knew I could butcher and didn’t scream or faint at the sight of blood, LOL!

[marktwain]

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