All I can say is, “if you don’t know what you’re shooting at... DON’T SHOOT!”
hmm.. i’m not sure whether i want to laugh at the comical side of this or be sad for the death of the llama.
i think it will be comedy. :-)
Sack the llama shooters
I don’t get it. Is it not Feral Llama season? Or was its name Dalai?
Give the hunter credit. He realized he made a mistake and did the right thing by turning himself in.
Blacktails are small compared to many other deer in the U.S. The smallest legal bucks field dressing to only a little more than half the weight of the largest Midwestern Whitetails, and the bigger Texas Muley bucks.
After some hunting, he came back late one morning to what was then called "Outdoor Recreation", which was headquarters for hunting management on the base, saying, "Wow, you folks have the biggest deer I've ever seen ...could any body help me? I can't even drag it..."
He shot a protected Tule Elk.
The poor dumb sap was fined heavily and lost his State hunting privileges for 5 years. I think they let him keep his truck. Nowadays, the Fish & Game will take the gun, the truck, what-have-you, when someone is caught flagrantly poaching. Helps keep folks honest, I guess.
Firearms don’t kill. Buck Fever kills!
So. Llamas are edible too!
(Never tried it myself.)
Under a subject heading of “hunting llamas in Big Sky Country,” the e-mail parodied MasterCard’s “priceless” advertising campaign.
“.30-06 rifle with Leupold Scope - $650.
“Out of state license - $600.
“Gas to drive from New York - $700.
“Taking a trophy Montana llama - priceless.”
Does he still get to mount the head?
Sharp Shooter of the month Award over here...
(A Spanish guitarist and a dancer in traditional Spanish costume, followed by a caption on the screen : 'LIVE FROM GOLDERS GREEN'. Man enters and walks up to a life-size photo of a llama. He delivers the following lecture in Spanish, with help from the guitarist and dancer, and superimposed subtitles.')
Man: (but in Spanish with subtitles in English) The llama is a quadruped which lives in big rivers like the Amazon. It has two ears, a heart, a forehead, and a beak for eating honey. But it is provided with fins for swimming.
Guitarist & Dancer: Llamas are larger than frogs.
Man: Llamas are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout:
Guitarist & Dancer: Look out, there are llamas!
(A Spanish Lady dressed in a Spanish frock, enters on a moped she blows up a paper bag and bursts it. They bow. Cut to exterior Ada's Snack Bar (a small cafe). Hand-held camera moves round the back to where an announcer is seated at desk with an old-fashioned BBC microphone.)
Announcer: And now for something completely different - a man with a tape recorder up his nose.
What a Blamma-Llama-Ding-Dong.
Maybe part of the hunter safety courses should be a mandatory section on identification of all four legged animals.
Sheesh....
Target identification FAIL.