Fair Chase

Outside Magazine ^ | May 2011 | Charles Bethea

[Palter]

Way off topic, but interesting. Chase down fastest game.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I would die tired (and real hungry) using this method.

[Deaf Smith]

"controversial theory of evolution:"

The other theory is that we got tired of running and used our brains more for ambush & stalking. Later we developed progressively better hunting weapons.

[thackney]

I prefer to rely on superior intellect, disposable income and a 30-06.

[Palter]

[2banana]

That is alot of burned calories (7 men x 4 hours of running) for not that much of a payback...

[blueunicorn6]

And they can catch a salmon in the Pacific by swimming underwater and chasing it until it tires out. They tried it once, but a killer whale ate all the participants.

[Sherman Logan]

Nine men chasing a pronghorn for a full day with possible payoff of the meat from a 130 pound animal.

I’m sure somebody could run a calories expended versus calories obtained from a successful hunt analysis.

It doesn’t sound like a particularly efficient way to get food.

The Bushmen more frequently get just close enough to put a poison arrow or two into an animal, then chase it until it collapses.

[wolfcreek]

I appreciate their experiment but, with all the adrenaline being expended by these animals, the meat is going to be very gamy to say the least.

[old3030]

Right, so how much energy are three or four guys going to get out of one very lean antelope, not to mention the wife and kids back at the cave.

I don’t think it’s a paying business.

[wolfcreek]

I forgot to add that I prefer killing the animal as instantly as possible to avoid such a dilemma.

[21twelve]

“enough to put a poison arrow”

I always wondered how the bushmen, thousands of years ago developed some of their poison recipes? Just a berry or something I can see, but on one of those “Survivorman” shows he was out with the primitives and they gathered 4 or 5 ingredients, and then cooked it to dip their arrows in.

Although I suppose each ingredient they figured out was bad on its own - so combine them for even a worse effect.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You can’t eat Pronghorn if you kill them after they have been running. They pump adrenalin all through their bodies and the meat is horrible. You have to kill them before they take off.

[aliquando]

That one made me laugh!

[goat granny]

Years back had a friend who raised Black Angus...they found on tangled up in the electric fence. Put it down and the meat was horrible. They ended up throwing it all out...same thing, too much hormones released under stress and it effects the taste of meat....my dad was brought up on a farm at the turn of the last century and said he could taste in pork if the pig was a female in estrus when butchered. Those that use to raise their own food knew a lot more then we ever will....

[SunkenCiv]

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[decimon]

It was a good theory until he ran the cheetah.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes and we all need to try to regain some of that knowledge. I think we are going to need it shortly. I have also been told that when you kill a boar you need to remove the testicles immediately or it will ruin the meat.

[goat granny]

When I was young there were no super markets. My brother worked at the poultry shop a couple of block from home. (Detroit 1930-40’s). All the fowl was live and in cages lining the walls of the shop, chicken, duck, rabbit and once in a while a goose. You got to look into the eye of tonights dinner. You'd pick out your choice and come back a couple of hours later and it would be dressed out and ready to fix for dinner....You knew what you picked out was healthy and disease free. Some old wives would look into the eye of their dinner to make sure it was healthy.

Pita would have a fit, but they would also starve. Which couldn't be all bad....:O) You can tell old boar meat by the smell as soon as you start to fry it....yukky and it gets thrown away... My brother did the dressing out of all the fowl that was bought in the shop. No body had any fantasy about our food coming in little styrofoam packages..It crowed, clucked, quacked and honked....:O)