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Girls and Boys, Meet Nature. Bring Your Gun.
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| September 18, 2005
| PAM BELLUCK
Posted on 09/17/2005 9:08:12 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: billnaz
I would want my children to learn gun safety because my dearest has guns. If the gun grabbers cared about gun safety, they'd allow the Eddie Eagle program but they don't.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:22:49 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Thank you dear Lord for my new job and the breath in my lungs.)
To: cyborg
Hunting is a key to survival. I no longer enjoy hunting animals - but will do so if hungry and unable to reach a store.
Starving to death is "creepy". As well as stupid.
Hunting people, OTOH, is FUN.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:23:55 PM PDT
by
datura
(Molon Labe)
To: dbwz
Someday I am getting a shooting lesson from my fiance. Won't happen till I love though because I live in NY.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:24:28 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Thank you dear Lord for my new job and the breath in my lungs.)
To: 1rudeboy
Is hunting bear with a 20 gauge advisable?It wouldn't be my choice. Maybe with a rifled slug and a 9 year old girl, it's the best compromise you can make. I haven't hunted bear with dogs. Maybe those guides have seen it done.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:24:45 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: cyborg
Hunting is not for everyone just like snow boarding of ballet lessions. Many children love it. Espically girls. when their Dad takes them. Depends on how you look at it. If you are a animal rights person you will HATE it. But those person are unreasonable. I love animals but I also love hunting. I find the killing not to be the main thing. The ability to do so is important. It is more honest than eating beef and thinking no one killed that cow. To kill,clean and put up your own meat is an accompolishment. It is also a good way to teach responsibility and the correct handling of firearms. Something very important. As we all the the 2nd amendment is not about hunting. I have no problem with hunters or those who do not hunt as long as one does not try to outlaw the ability of one to hunt. Which is necessary to preserve this nations wildlife.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:25:13 PM PDT
by
therut
To: cyborg
I know what you're saying, killing an animal is something I wouldn't want my 9 year old to do.
To: billnaz
I was "plinking" with a .22 by 10 and dad gave me a shotgun for my "Sweet 16" birthday.
I went on hunts with him as a kid and to this day I can still walk in the woods without so much as crackling a leaf.
The "hunt walk" has become second nature to the point that it drives hubby nuts because he says I keep "sneaking up on him" and freaking him out....:))
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:26:55 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(There's nothing that "MORE COWBELL!" can't fix.......)
To: LauraleeBraswell
One person understands what I'm saying. Thank god.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:27:22 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Thank you dear Lord for my new job and the breath in my lungs.)
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To: SweetCornGiblets
Did/Does your nine year old walk around the street with a loaded gun? I don't think so.
To: therut
Hunting isn't for everyone I agree.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:29:55 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Thank you dear Lord for my new job and the breath in my lungs.)
To: cyborg
I agree with you cyborg. I used to hunt starting at a VERY young age (7) with my dad. Learned to live and survive outdoors.
As said here, there will always be hunters. Vietnam cured my blood lust, I hunt with a camera now.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:30:30 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
To: cyborg
What a country we would have if EVERY 9-year old girl had her own shotgun and went bear hunting with her Daddy!
I regret that I never took mine.
Hunting is not for everybody, though. It's a traditional rite of passage in much of rural America, and an experience from which many young people learn valuable lessons about nature, life, death, and responsibility.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:31:01 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
To: cyborg
She probably still believes in Santa Clause. Now, maybe some kids like target practice, okay, I'm not going to enroll my kid but fine. But I'd be hesitant sending my little girl off on a Bear hunting trip.
To: SweetCornGiblets
Martial arts would be more effective for a young child. I just don't see how a child could carry their own firearm. Isn't that against the law?
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:31:24 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Thank you dear Lord for my new job and the breath in my lungs.)
To: cyborg
There was no Eddie Eagle program when I was a kid, just a very strict and caring father who taught me how to use firearms responsibly as soon as he thought I was ready. The happiest times of my youth were hunting and fishing trips with my father. I wish he were alive today to see the contents of my gun safe. I hope he would be proud.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:31:37 PM PDT
by
billnaz
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
To: Salamander
Anybody know what kind of dogs they're using?They're Plott hounds.
Excellent for bear and hog.
/jasper
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:31:45 PM PDT
by
Jasper
(Stand Fast, Craigellachie !)
To: cyborg
Are you a vegetarian? Personally, I don't like shootin critters unless folks eat the meat. There's nothing wrong with that, IMHO.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:32:10 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Black bears are slobs. The dogs tree the beast, and then you walk up to the tree and try to miss the dogs.
It is a pretty easy hunt. Good to start kids with it. Some folks use pistols.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:32:29 PM PDT
by
Donald Meaker
(You don't drive a car looking through the rear view mirror, but you do practic politics that way.)
To: billnaz
"I would say that is one lucky kid. I didn't get my BB gun until I was ten. I got my first shotgun at age twelve. "My dad, who as a child saw his father and brother executed by the Reds during the Russian Revolution, bought his sons rifles (.22 at age 10, 12 guage shotguns at age 12) and taught us how to shoot, hunt and defend ourselves should the need arise.
It was a helluva good education and came in handy when I was drafted into the Army.
Oh, one other thing. I have never shot anyone and neither has any of my guns.
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posted on
09/17/2005 9:32:46 PM PDT
by
albee
(The best thing you can do for the poor is...not be one of them!)
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