Posted on 02/24/2015 8:32:17 AM PST by w1n1
I killed a sparrow with a BB gun when I was ten. He was on top of a telephone pole. I didn’t think I would actually hit him when I pulled the trigger. I felt so bad about it.
I would love to see that call to the electric company explaining why the rest of the county highway residents don’t have power.
Thats gonna be ‘spensive.
No need. It's mentioned in the accompanying article.
Positive. You can tell by the video. The average wing speed velocity on these unladen specimens gives it away.
Naw you aren’t wrong.
Just thought I’d convey their rationale for icing the bird.
Tell you what when I was little we lived and breathed to take our bb guns out.
We weren’t supposed to but we would shoot songbirds given the chance. Got in trouble around the neighborhood, hiding out in the hedges and lilac bushes trying to shoot somebody’s purple martins etc.
Pretty dumb.
But we all grew up shooting and at times we kind of went astray.
Then for years I hunted everything that was legal to shoot. Couldn’t get enough of it. Years and years of that, pheasants, grouse, partridge, ducks, geese, deer, antelope, cottontails, squirrels, coyotes.
Always ate everything except of course the coyotes.
Then suddenly the bloodlust ceased, just simply left me. And now I will hunt only an elk cow every year or two, ‘cause I love the meat, and will shoot skunks and other critters that might bother my cats.
Also I will shoot every vicious murdering wolf I possibly can, though they are hard to come across.
Perhaps not as far as it appears.
I am familiar with the concept. The older I get the less I want to see anything die, especially at my hand.
You felt bad? I killed a Mockingbird and then someone went and wrote a book about it.
LOL!!!
Look out for the one that considers you an "invasive species, a messy, noisy pest, within 90 feet of their living spaces".
Want real sport? Join the Marines. We fight species that shoot back.
You’ll shoot your eye out.
My Dad loved his peaches. I got a 10 cent bounty on each ‘peach-eating’ finch.
They would peck a few bites out of the sunny, ripe side of the peach.
Still have that Daisy Model 25.
Hank: Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.
Roy: A lot of people have asked us why we don’t use fly spray. Well, where’s the sport in that?
I finally had a pair of chickadees build a nest in one of my bird houses until I saw on two occasions a starling trying to get into the box. The chickadees left the nest and never returned.......
Oh shut up and go iterate yourself.
No one here was advocating killing anything, Big Man.
I mentioned my own experiences because at times they are a puzzlement to me too.
You are a mental defect and a pile of waste. Piss off with your keyboard threats, defect.
I have a hard time killing anything anymore, but I do on occasion-—skunks, aggressive coons, weird-acting coyotes and so on, because of my own animals.
But I know what you mean.
I didn’t detect a threat “Fightin Whitey” - unless the idea of joining the Marines frightened you. If so, I apologize. We don’t need those who know ahead of time that they won’t make it.
And I have hunted grasshoppers with my .177 pellet rifle.
As challenging as any hunting.
“The mosquito’s a clever little bastard. You can track him for days and days until you really get to know him like a friend. He knows you’re there, and you know he’s there. It’s a game of wits. You hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him.”
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