Posted on 05/27/2016 10:38:56 AM PDT by marktwain
This reminds me of the Woody Allen fake documentary “Sweet & Lowdown” where the main character’s favorite hobby is going to the dump to shoot rats. He even takes a girl there on a date!
If the date enjoyed it, she would likely be a keeper.
My nephew's boss owns thousands of acres of apple orchards here in E. Washington state.
In the summer months when the fruit is bearing, we'll drive through the orchards on ATV's and plunk the ground squirrels with .22's and the occasional magpie with .410's.
Lots of fun.
I have (in the past)hunted all manner of vermin and edible game on or near dumps. But not in this day and age.
Shot so many dump rats when I was a kid in Northern Iowa I quit counting. Great way to train. Now days we shoot jack rabbits with AR’s No season, no limit.
Darn. I was expecting a different sort of ‘rat.
I can’t say she enjoyed it. Especially not the part where he threw a dead rat in the car with her!
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How many of those rats did he eat?
We need more opportunities for our young folk.
None. Rats are supposed to be quite good, though. I recommend the book “Coming out of the Ice” by Victor Herman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman
If I’m ever starving in a Siberian gulag, you bet I’d eat rats, and be happy to get them.
Until then, I only shoot what I intend to eat. I understand that rats and other vermin should be destroyed, but I personally don’t indulge in the pastime. I don’t say that nobody else should, only that I don’t care to.
To eat rats? Or to get shooting practice?
Hah...
Never had an hostility to rats until I had two young children. Then suddenly the sight of a rat caused me on a deep lizard level to want to kill them...all of them.........ugh...knuckles dragging on ground.
So while on an objective level I get the dislike of sport killing (share that myself), with rats I think I could enjoy a 2 hour film of rats being shot and killed. It would be most satisfying seeing them dispatched and I Have a natural fondness of rat killing dogs.
I think there must be some survival instinct based on northern European family history. No idea why that is the case, but it is. Also never felt anything like it until I had young kids, then ...wow it was like a switch turned on.
On some level there is a instinctual human drive to kill rats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXTiYQzzbB8
Having it I would guess it dates back to the middle ages and the black death, or.....it relates to the danger that rats display to young children. So if you have young kids and you see a rat, there is a danger there, they will chomp on them if hungry.
In any case though I would cheerfully kill any and all rats and feel quite fine doing so. I have not had to do so though, but find this aspect of atavistic behavior rather interesting.
I appreciate your tolerance. It is a quality in short supply today!
Coming Out of the Ice is a fantastic read. It is a great companion to The Gulag Archepelago.
As I grow older, I find myself leaning in your direction. It is a natural progression.
“I think there must be some survival instinct based on northern European family history. No idea why that is the case, but it is. Also never felt anything like it until I had young kids, then ...wow it was like a switch turned on.”
I have noticed a similar effect while teaching women to shoot. Many say they could never shoot another human.
Then I ask: What if they were attempting to kill or rape your child?
The answer is always a savage “I would kill them!”
I have never noted a hesitation. I believe the response is hardwired in.
Vermin must be controlled!
The really big rats are located in the D.C. (District of Corruption) area.
There was a movie, King Rat had a POW(George Segal) selling rat meat.
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