Some people...

[GartersRock]

People running over snakes/killing snakes drives me nuts!!! I search so long and hard and these people always run across them and kill them. Why them and not me??

[adamanteus]

I know! Frustrating, isn't it? Last summer I spent three days searching in the south of England for Vipera berus, and found nothing. On my last day a drunken guy who had heard about my search brought me a young female which he had just found and beaten to death with a stick!

[garterman07]

thats really sad. i hate people that don't know how to handle a situation and have to resort to violence.

[adamanteus]

I had to try to explain to this guy that the bloodied and beaten carcass he brought me was of no use to me. I think he was hoping I was going to buy it!

[garterman07]

wow...i woulda been so ticked at that guy, its like when i was in mexico they have red kneed tarantulas, very beautiful species of arachnid, i saw one and was going to go pick it up to take home cause thats the main reason i was there, to test out my spanish and get a red knee. well any ways this lady came out with a broom shouting "don't touch that nasty thing!!!!" then beat it to death with a broom and obviously proud of her self. i was like lady!!! what the hell!!! i just about had a stroke.

[abcat1993]

It always pisses me off when I try to kill something, because I always realize later that I hate it when other people try to kill snakes and frogs and other things I like. For example, while I was hunting we shot birds for fun, not to eat or to put on the wall, and then they mentioned killing toads just because they were annoying them. They said they shot them up to 6 times before they died, but then I realized that I had just done the same exact thing.
Just shows how stupid some people can be.

[garterman07]

what kind of toads are those...or atleast what did you shoot them with? sheesh even with a 22. those toads shoulda been done. but its all one cycle and no ones perfect theres always going to be that one thing that anoys some one or hat one thing that anoys you, or you do something that anoys some one else and vice versa, its jsut what makes us human.

[Cazador]

Matt,

I admit that I was a bit disturbed at the thought of shooting birds for fun, but I know a lot of hunters have done so when they were younger. I'm glad you're starting to think more deeply about such things, and I think you're on the right path toward developing deeper values and respect for the lives you choose (and don't choose) to take. Cheers,

Rick

[drache]

for fun, hm
aren't there many other things one can shoot for fun - like what do you call those little clay plates they toss up with some kind of catapult thingy? Those move.
I guess birds are cheaper
but then one could rig one's own catapult thingy and shoot up pretty much anything with enough weight to fly

when I was a kid you could get money for shooting crows (our mayor was a farmer), so you could have "fun" with a purpose
other than that I'm really fond of eating certain birds (never tried crow)

I grew up in a hunting household, with the idea that one never points a gun or rifle, loaded or not, at any living being in fun
we were taught to take care of them and take them very seriously
I understand that he my father was extreme in his attitude
he did teach me a lot
I hope I can do as good a job with my daughter

[garterman07]

clay pigeons....those are really cheap you get a box of 100 for about 10 bucks...its called trap and skeet shooting...i love that i shoot in competitons with an h&r 12g single shot. but its alot cleaner to shoot clay pigeons per say than the actual thing.