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In reply to the discussion: So, tell me again why I should hunt with a rock, a long bow ...or a spear. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)46. If folks are into ritual combat cum hunting, then take on hogs with a knife...
It's legal in several states, but usually involves hog dogs, both strikers and grabbers who can bay the animal. There is a video on Youtub of an Hawai'ian hog hunt where the animal is bayed, and the coup de gras is ceremonially delivered by a man with a large knife (matador-style), all to the soundtrack of an operatic "Ave Maria." The Alabama hunt was a little more boisterous.
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So, tell me again why I should hunt with a rock, a long bow ...or a spear. [View all]
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
OP
Whatever it takes to receive maximum entertainment from killing a bear, have at it.
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#1
Exactly. Indulging in pre-evolutionary practices for the procurement of foods that are
underahedgerow
Aug 2016
#57
Heh-heh. I think the biggest hunting danger is a heart attack, dragging out a deer.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#15
Nice equipment. On occasion, I meet shutterbugs in the woods. Most seem aware
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#20
If you oppose hunting, fine. But some antis need to get their emotions/prejudices
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#11
I don't know if I'd like it; I do know I wouldn't like hunting anything that couldn't shoot back.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Aug 2016
#88
What an African-American Rosewood, FL pogrom victim asked a white lynch mob member
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#81
You seem to have confused hunting with carrying an AR-15 to a political rally. Why?
63splitwindow
Aug 2016
#12
Well, the topic is hunting WITHOUT a gun. Did you clear your post with GD hosts?
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#21
You use guns for more than hunting animals. You are a gun promoter, even using a gun reference
Hoyt
Aug 2016
#27
We'd be better off if gunners could live with a spear rather than AR15s and a gun in their pants
Hoyt
Aug 2016
#31
Where FL is way ahead of TX: It allows taking of roadkill. Quite progressive.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#30
I used to hunt with a rifle but I had a friend who was killed my senior year of High School.
dilby
Aug 2016
#33
You may recall the latest "Cecille the Lion" posting, this time someone killing a bear
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#44
Okay thanks, I am impressed at the stupidity of anyone that will attack a bear with a spear.
Rex
Aug 2016
#45
If folks are into ritual combat cum hunting, then take on hogs with a knife...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#46
Was the bear attacking people? Was it self-defense? Did the hunter eat the bear?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#56
what provides you personally with the maximum entertainment value of killing for sport?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#55
A little unclear, but I enjoy the pursuit of an animal which is superbly equipped for evasion...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#72
My point there originally was, assuming you were only doing it for enjoyment, so to speak
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#84
Rocks and Spears are dumb...long bow is nice and traditional in a Fred Bear kind of way.
ileus
Aug 2016
#69
Good point. Play fair with a dangerous animal? No-o-o. There is greater "fairness" with
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#76
Long bow could be cool, popular enough - but at that point I'd be choosing a Compound Bow.
jmg257
Aug 2016
#71
Not slaggng long bows, just one of the instruments thrown back at me by the Manly crowd.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#77