[johnny4ever]

Originally Posted by White Shark

You can only kill ducks with lead free shot. Does that also mean that the pencils ought to be lead free too in this case?


If the Pen is mightier than the sword, does that mean that the pencil is mightier than the shotgun? Just wondering philosophically.


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Which is better - Pencil or Pen?

[KliersLC]

Originally Posted by monniepoo

Hey , there is no need to get so defensive. How do you know I didn't grow up in the country? huh? Whats wrong with me you say? Plenty... but I can tell you right now that I could never hurt an animal intentionally.
I think its wrong and I think you are an ass

Hmm....

I am a little unsure about which part of that post was defensive. You are certainly entitled to your opinion of me, and I'll take heart in the fact that it must be based on the mounds of information that you have I don't have a poor opinion of you as yet though; simply because you and I have different sets of values does not make me think that you are any less of a person, but each to their own I guess......

[inflammatory comment omitted]




Crushers: you seem like you still might be a little miffed from the coyote thread.........


Honk: Oh yes, we had many BB gun wars, but learned the hard way to be aware of the backdrop when I missed my brother and took out a window on the house.....

[Skillet]

OT,

Johnny is 4ever changing his avy today...

Keep thinking it is some new poster.




That is all.

[LockedLX]

This turkey dinner is awesome..

[crushers]

Originally Posted by KliersLC

Hmm....

Crushers: you seem like you still might be a little miffed from the coyote thread.........

coyote thread?? <scratching head> nope, i don't have that good a memory for the little things...

my point was not everyone that tortures animals will end up evil BUT they can end up having a hard time fitting into societies mold...
i never tortured animals but i had a 22 at the age of 7 and shot everythign that moved. one day that all changed and i developed a strong feeling towards animals in general. i wouldn't shoot an animal for fun but for food or defense it is dead.
it has taken me decades to come as far as i have and i can see what a troubled youngster i was and what an ass i was for decades. even today i have a hard time respecting authority, laws but i try.
i do not blame my parents, school teachers or anyone else. i had a shitty attitude and no matter what anyone did i wouldn't change.
what changed me? (or at least started me down that road?) i went hunting with a new group of guys when i moved to Alberta. they were doing grass and drinking (which i was taught was a HUGE no/no) and just AFTER legal light the guy riding with me yelled for me to stop. he jumps out of the truck and aims into a heard of cattle, BOOM. down goes a cow. WTF?!?! he jumps the fence and runs over to the cow that was sitting and shoves it over, not even putting it out of it's misery...
i was so shocked that anyone could be so cruel and irrisponsible i stopped hunting with anyone.
later i was shooting gophers, laying on the side of a hill and blasting away. wait 5 minutes and they would come back up. i fell a sleep in the sun and when i woke there were 2 gophers playing tag an arms reach away. the facial expressions, the antics...i watched for quite a while and then went back home, sold my guns and never looked back.
beleive it or not these 2 occurances changed my life where people had failed for years. it has been an uphill climb ever since...

i was just saying, people can change. i look back and am disgusted with myself as i am sure many are of me as well.

cheers

[KliersLC]

Good stuff,

The coyote reference was a little obscure, I guess, but it was one of Eric's pot stirring threads that I got sucked into. Something about a client of his shooting a coyote, and then something about ground squirrels and cows...


I think it got deleted.

Anyhow, cool stories, and I can definitely see where you are coming from.

Cheers back at ya

[roscoFJ73]

They should have just stuffed the duck then the kids would have one to admire forever

No big deal in the bigger scheme of things,people get burnt ,butchered and hacked to death all over the world daily and it doesnt get a mention.