Flying p-dogs! (Very Gross Photo)

[Flintknapper]

rbernie wrote:

There are game hunters, and there are varmint hunters. <shrug> Logic would tell us that there is a valid place in this world for both, even if you favor one over t'other.

Demanding or expecting that others will conform to an individual, personal value structure is a relatively childish reaction, and is a habit into which I hope nobody here falls...

Alright now.........! The use of common sense and logic will NOT be tolerated!




Excellent reply Sir.

 

[sprocket3]

The problem with these types of posts is that it gives anti-gun groups ammo to use against hunters and shooters.

 

[General Tso]

There's no escaping the fact that ballistic pest control can be messy, but juvenile tittering over the results is juvenile and very low road.

I just don't think we need graphic pics.

 

[General Tso]

That makes the gun community real attractive.

Agreed.

 

[LRS_Ranger]

It's marked as a graphic pic.. why bellyache about something when you had fair warning. It's like telling you kid "that burner's hot, if you don't want to get burned, then don't touch it!". Then your kid touches it, gets blistered, and then says "why did you put the burner where I could touch it after giving me fair warning??"

You still haven't answered the question that I posed to you earlier. What is your definition of hunting, if not shooting pests or other game animals? You implied that the OP wasn't a real hunter. So I ask, what is one?

 

[Seenterman]

Ewwwwwww!!!

Got that dog 150 yards away? Good shot!
Where you prone, or shooting from a rested stance?

 

[Q!!]

Nice shot. Love hunting these little varmints myself. Makes for a great day outdoors with my son.


And after reading some of these posts(General Tso and sproket3), I think some PETA members have infiltrated the hunting forum.

 

[LRS_Ranger]

General, why don't you check out the forums at http://peace4animals.webs.com/apps/forums/... Judging by the number of activity you might need to bring a friend or 2, I think there are a couple others on this thread too...

 

[General Tso]

I was just raised to make some kind of use out of what you kill. I'm just stating my opinion on here, that's all. I just hate to see people get enjoyment out of killing a living creature. I'm not a PETA member, although I am against factory farms. Nothing against anyone here, I LOVE the high road forum! I'm from Ohio, we don't have prairie dogs so I guess I don't know what kind of a nuisance they are. Just my $.02.

 

[wankerjake]

I just hate to see people get enjoyment out of killing a living creature.

I think that's a bad way to put it. Everybody who hunts gets enjoyment out of it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. I bet you don't get upset at lions or wolves or coyotes for enjoying it. It's just kind of in the nature of the carnivore to enjoy it, otherwise they wouldn't eat. Applying that to pest control, the pests need to be gotten rid of. The only way to do that effectively (that I can think of, maybe you have some ideas) is to kill them. So now you can poison or trap them, or you can shoot them. How does that make it wrong to pick the most fun option? The little pests are just as dead either way. They aren't getting eaten by humans either way. I guess you have to look at the whole picture before you start pointing fingers.

 

[inherentical]

Ha, nice shot. I've never seen one caught up on barbed wire like that once it's been killed.

 

[grubbylabs]

I would guess that they are some what worse than our rock chucks. I guess they used to be much worse around here. But through the diligence of Rock Chuck hunters the problem has been some what minimized. I wish there were more to shoot.

 

[ole farmerbuck]

Ewwwwwww!!!

Got that dog 150 yards away? Good shot!
Where you prone, or shooting from a rested stance?

I always shoot from the pickup window. 150 isnt all that far really. You should see some of the shots made. I had a guy with me a while back. He spotted on by a fence with the bicoculars and told me to shoot it. I found it in my scope (5x20x44 nikon) on a .223 Savage light weight barrel. I aimed high and to the right (nasty Ks wind) and dropped him! Range finder showed 256 yards. He was impressed. We make longer but it gets tiring looking through a scpoe to locate them.

 

[RumRunner]

i just dont understand some folks

nice pic

 

[IdahoLT1]

I was just raised to make some kind of use out of what you kill. I'm just stating my opinion on here, that's all. I just hate to see people get enjoyment out of killing a living creature. I'm not a PETA member, although I am against factory farms. Nothing against anyone here, I LOVE the high road forum! I'm from Ohio, we don't have prairie dogs so I guess I don't know what kind of a nuisance they are. Just my $.02.

Oh ok. You're just making comments on something you know nothing about. That makes sense. I mean, I was raised with the understanding that if I was going to discuss/debate a topic with someone, I should have some knowledge about it.

 

[IdahoLT1]

The problem with these types of posts is that it gives anti-gun groups ammo to use against hunters and shooters.

Yes, because this is all that they are really worried about. Get real man. Just the fact that we harvest game, pisses them off. Even if we could harvest game by throwing flowers at them, with everyone from every race/nationality holding hands under rainbows singing kumbaya, they'd still be after us.

How we present ourselves as a whole doesn't really matter to them. They dislike us and what we do no matter what we do. It's down right difficult to educate the ignorant.

 

[~z]

Originally Posted by General Tso:
I was just raised to make some kind of use out of what you kill.

While I understand and respect that in theory I typically hold that standard to ‘non-pest’ animals. I don’t suppose you have any recipes for mice, mosquito, cockroach, or house fly do you? Really not too much different here once you distill it.
~z

 

[Dravur]

I was just raised to make some kind of use out of what you kill. I'm just stating my opinion on here, that's all. I just hate to see people get enjoyment out of killing a living creature. I'm not a PETA member, although I am against factory farm

They are used. All the ones I shoot in Montana are used to feed the local Wildlife. I personally had a fat coyote come up to me and thank me for leaving the buffet on the side of that there rise. And the local raptor clan sent me a Christmas basket.

I shoot the pests... I enjoy the snot out of it. I love watching Gopher Aerobics and think it probably should be an Olympic Sport.

 

[Yo Mama]

Don't you know, you're not supposed to shoot the cute animals, just the ugly ones!

 

[IdahoLT1]

They get pretty ugly when they rip apart and eat the dead ones right on top of their mounds. Maybe they should be called Donner squirrels?

 

[wankerjake]

Maybe they should be called Donner squirrels

HAHAHA! Pure genius! Stupid, pesky Donner squirrels!

 

[cheff]

ROFL great pic hope to get so lucky

I leave tonight for Oregon to spend an entire week killing Groudhogs, squeak pigs, whistle pigs what ever your want to call them. It will be my sons first trip.

I cant wait!!!

 

[CoRoMo]

...make some kind of use out of what you kill.

Ridding the area of vermin is a perfectly good use out of killing. Otherwise, I'd have to cook and eat what I find in the mousetrap.

 

[qwert65]

Personally, I thought the photo was distasteful. Not bc a praire dog was shot, I shoot them myself(though I don't hunt them).
I got the impression that it was glorifying killing. Not in the vein of "nice buck" but "hey look what happened". The fact that the pic was labeled graphic is besides the point. If I posted pics of gutting a deer I'd post graphic bc of the gore.
I also believe there is a difference in enjoying hunting and making fun of the way things die.

 

[MachIVshooter]

I hope this gets removed. Some "real hunters" on here for sure.

I can think of some choice low road words in reaction to this, but I'll simply say there is a difference between game hunting, predator hunting and varmint shooting.

I do all of the above, and I don't call killing praire rats hunting. It's not. I'm not stalking them or luring them in, and I'm not gonna eat them. I just shoot them. And that that's why I call it praire rat shooting.

When it comes to predators, I'm not gonna eat the coyotes or bobcats, either. But it's still hunting, because there is stalking/calling skills involved.

Then there's big game, and I don't kill deer, elk and pronghorn just to kill them. I go to get away from civilization for a few days and hopefully get a tasty bonus out of it.

If you find varmint shooting distasteful, then simply don't partake and don't open picture files or follow links on the topic that are labeled as graphic. Pretty simple and common sense.