Hunting for Tail on the Internet

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Ok if you want to own a gun, as long as you abide by the laws and take measure to secure it in your house fine by me.

You want to go hunting for animals, again I’m still ok with it. Personally I think you should eat it instead of leaving it in the woods, but other scavenger animals will take care of it, so no problem.

You want to sit home in your bathrobe and jammies use your laptop to fire a remote control rifle and shoot a deer in Texas, I thin we’ve crossed a line somewhere a few clicks back. According to a recent BBC article a Texas company is planning to open a website where you can pay to shoot deer, sheep, and wild pig (news story).

Ok you want to kill something for sport, sorry it’s a first hand experience, period. Now before one of you tree-hugging, green-peace, veggie eaters chimes in, yes I’m a carnivore. I eat meat. Do I actually kill the bird before I make chicken cordon blue, no. But I know where it comes from, and I know what’s involved. Sherman fire up the wayback machine …

I’m a city kid, ok technically a suburb kid, but you get the picture. When my sister and I were kids we visited some relatives in West Virginia. They were farmers, they had chickens in the yard, cows in the pasture, and some of the prettiest countryside I’ve ever seen, ever. The second morning we were there, My Aunt Lucy took me outside after breakfast, and asked me to pick out one of the chickens running around, so I did. She then walked over, grabbed the chicken by the neck, placed it on the chopping block and whacked it’s head off right there on the spot! As I said I was a city kid, this was the first time I had actually seen my dinner being killed right there in front of me. It was a profound experience. I then witnessed the proverbial “running around like a chicken without a head”. After it finally died she grabbed the bird, and hung it upside down to let the blood drip out.

So like I said I eat meat, and I’m fully aware of what’s involved in getting that food to the supermarket , into my refrigerator, and onto my dinner table. Now if you want to go hunt an animal in the woods, and I mean really hunt it, wear camouflage, hide in bushes and trees, stalk your prey, look it in the eye, pull the trigger, and kill it, go ahead you’ve earned it. However, if you’re nothing more than a mouse potato armed with an Amex platinum card, sorry friend you haven’t earned the right kill something.

Now lets look at this from the business end. If you’re the ranch owner you’re going to get more customers based on how easy/fun it is for people to shoot and kill something. After the first few kills, the animals will learn to stay away from the rifle’s range, so the owners will have to take steps to increase the likelihood a customer will have “a pleasant shopping experience”.

Sorry that’s just too much bad mojo for me, so step away from the mouse …

2 Responses to “Hunting for Tail on the Internet”

1. thuringwethil2004 Says:
   November 19th, 2004 at 11:07 am

   Coming from a family of real hunters, I can honestly say I agree with you completely on this. (OMG, I’m agreeing with Gray!)

   That’s just wrong.

2. Anonymous Says:
   November 19th, 2004 at 5:22 pm

   Sounds like you have experience hunting for tail on the internet.