Animal sniping
Per
this article in the Minnesota Daily yesterday: I am no animal lover. In fact, I'm not even an animal liker. But I think what people today are calling "hunting" is ridiculous. Since most hunters sit safely off the forest floor with high powered scopes and rifles, "animal sniping" is probably a more appropriate term. Hunting should involve some sort of danger posed by the prey, like a counterattack, or the threat of starvation if the hunter should fail. The most dangerous part of animal sniping is other snipers, or getting too drunk and falling out of your tree stand. If you want to call it hunting, you should have to do it with tools you made yourself. You should have to stalk the animal in groups, forming a complex plan by which one member of the team can get close enough to the animal to stab it or chuck a spear through it. And, during hunting season, you are only allowed to eat what you have successfully hunted. Finally, at no stage in between the kill and the eating can any preparation be done on the carcass by another in exchange for money.
Posted by mill1991 at April 19, 2005 10:37 AM
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When my family goes a-sniping, we like to have the place to ourselves. So if any fellow snipers show up, we have a chat with them. They ask if we've seen any prey, and we say "No, but we got a few Sound Shots." The fellow snipers stop smiling, and after they leave we have the place to ourselves again.