Posted on 08/04/2017 2:44:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
.....another controversial video is out there involving marine life and young men.
This time, instead of dragging a shark behind a speeding boat, this latest clip shows two young men using a gun to kill a hammerhead....
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Probably the same jerks that dragged the shark behind the boat. They’ve been discovered as repeat offenders.
There are many types of hammerheads. The Scalloped Hammerhead is on the protected species list.
Lots of related shark facts here.
Had you moved the shark might have taken notice.
Way back when, in ‘63 I think it was, I went out on a small snapper smack with bandit rigs. I had with me a triggerless .38, not a “special,” just a .38 that was used solely as a shark pistol. One pulled the hammer back and let go. The spring still worked in it. It was my shark gun. One night off the Texas coast in “the western” as it was called by the captain, I and the other youngster put out some very large hooks we found on a long rope with a gallon jug for a float and baited with some trash fish we had saved. A large shark hit it and we pulled it close enough that I could shoot him fomr the deck. Iput four holes in him where I thought they would do some good and it quit thrashing. We hauled it up on the deck and it lay there for a few minutes and then started thrashing with great vigor. The three of us on deck got up on the wheelhouse and the captain and other three hands woke up and yelled from the protection of the fo’c’sle. That shark broke out the rail on one side of the deck and knocked a hole in the side of the wheel house. The shark finally slid over the side through the gap it had knocked in the rail and the cook rushed up with a cleaver and chopped the rope he was still attached to. The two of us who had brought the shark aboard were deprived of our shares when we got back and we did not stay around after we got to the dock. It did not seem wise to stay. The cook said it was a tiger shark.
Yes, he enjoyed alcohol. But—who don’t? ;)
No. I did think about shark fishing inshore and from piers may have something to do with it.
In some circles.
Silly response. One pic of sharks like that is not dispositive of the overall population. Have you ever considered they are moving to shores or different food locations because the oceans of OVER FISHED!!?
No sweat as they us’tah say say in W Va, it don’t make no never mind.
Come on, thats not real is it?
“Playing dead will not work”
Sounds reasonable seeing the shark is trying to put you in that condition
Could be. I don’t really care. I’m not concerned about shark population.
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