[beyond the sea]

The folks who do it just don't talk about it and cat lovers comfort themselves pretending their tabby got run over or picked up at a pound. ---------- Keep telling yourself that.

You missed my point, but I'm not going to try to explain it to 'machoman' again.

Happy hunting, Davey Crockett.

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I have never been crazy with the macho hunter who gets a sense of fulfillment or adventure out of using modern technology, usually in the form of a high-powered rifle, to kill, at long range, an animal that was not trying to harm him.

Your "hunting" excitement is a substitute for something else.

[PeterFinn]

"I have never been crazy with the macho hunter who gets a sense of fulfillment or adventure out of using modern technology, usually in the form of a high-powered rifle, to kill, at long range, an animal that was not trying to harm him."

A single-shot Sharps .45 with no scope and just the range and windage finder common to that rifle in 1870 is "modern technology" to you?

You shoot with black powder and a blunderbuss, I take it.