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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2005, 12:09:50 AM »
sounds sick

but I am sure it is just a butt-load of good karma

you couldn't pay me to do it

listen to him
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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2005, 12:47:31 AM »
Shooting gophers? Nah its better to play Gopher-Fishing.

Its like squirrel fishing here on campus, you get a rod, some string, and food. Play out the line, sit and relax, toy the food, and when the squirrel/gopher go for it, pull it away! Or try to get them with their hands on it and pull hard and lift them up!
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2005, 12:51:02 AM »
what is the middle way?
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« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2005, 12:53:10 AM »
The gophers are just prarie rats. I have no problem killing vermin. Sounds like it could be interesting.
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« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2005, 01:02:20 AM »
Its like trout fishing. Whats the big deal. They wont live for ever and they would eat you in a second if they had the chance.
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« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2005, 03:32:51 AM »
Well, you can just pretend to be a lousy shot and just miss them.
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« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2005, 06:17:02 AM »
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Originally posted by Sandman
This is the kind of thing that provides hour upon hour of entertainment for the average thirteen-year old.


no kidding.  my dad worked on a farm which also had a golf course (he was a teacher and had summers off and did a bunch load of different stuff there for extra money) my brother and I used to ride shotgun with bb guns - daisy's. my dad carried his .30-.30 for ground hogs since they'd eat crops and leave holes that could damage tractors.

funniest shot was my brother hitting a gopher on the course that proceeded to do a perfect backflip and take off.

best shot was mine from back of a pickup doing about 15 mph using the "scope" - nothing more than an open tube) - hitting a gopher right in the temple for a kill. I guess the added velocity of the truck in motion actually gave the bb enough power for the kill.

gophers and prairie dogs, as well as ground hogs all deserve to die.. basically for being nuisances. perfectly legal in most states.

having said that, go for it nash, it'll build character.  or at least be a highly amusing few hours. you *are* 13, right? :aok
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« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2005, 06:50:13 AM »
Buddist monks say prayers each morning seeking forgiveness for any insects they kill by accidentally stepping on them.

Just saying.....


Well, actually I'm "more" than just saying...

When I was about 12 years old I went out on a weekend with another kid from the school.  This was in the UK and my parents were rarely around for the weekends we were allowed to leave school.

His Dad was a big time hunter.  They lived in a nice house way in the countryside next to a stream and the deck overlooked a huge field.  The field was full of rabbits.  They were everywhere.

The guys Dad promised we could shooot some of them with his rifle that afternoon.

After a huge lunch we sat around watching TV and this guy's Dad dozed off.  We let him sleep for a while but I got really anxious that we would run out of time to shoot and have to return to school.  So I insisted we wake him up.

He did and within a few minutes we were on the guys deck, rifle in hand and ready to kill stuff.

I wanted to go first, but the guys Dad said that he would shoot the first one, then we would have to wait about 15-20 minutes before any of the rabbits would reappear as the shot would scare them back into their holes.

He went prone, aimed and fired.  The rabbit he hit flew about a foot in the air sort of somersaulting backwards.  The other rabbits disappeared into their holes.

I figured all I had to do was wait for the requiste time and then I would get to have a go.  BUT  the guys Dad said "You have to go and pick it up first, before I'll let you shoot one."

No sweat thinks I.  I marched out and came to the dead rabbit.  I picked it up and suddenly I felt bad.  Really bad.

I brought it back to the guys Dad, who then tried to hand me the rifle and a shell.

"Changed your mind?" he asked.

I just nodded and then went inside to the bathroom and cried for about 15 minutes.

I was just a kid, but since that time I have never felt the urge to kill another animal for fun.

I'm no PETA fan or anything.  I understand why people hunt and why they enjoy it.  It just ain't for me.
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« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2005, 06:54:35 AM »
I'd jump at that offer. :) I would want to use a .22 rifle and scope for that, using .22 long rifle hollow points instead of whatever he wants to shoot for .25 a pop. If you don't have a .22 rifle up there in God's country, you need to go out immediately and buy one of your own... it will be worth it... they are a lot of fun for little money.
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« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2005, 07:35:16 AM »
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« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2005, 07:40:09 AM »
Curval
similiar experience here when younger

but it ain't hunting if you don't eat it ... more like just a bad karma pop

Nash, be sure to let us know your decision, me thinks you are to worried about wimping out in front of your cyperPALs here

be a man, go shoot overgrown hamsters :)
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« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2005, 08:08:12 AM »
Ya.. its not spring or anything yet.. And its fun to play god! :(
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« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2005, 08:16:32 AM »
Why don't you make it more competetive?  Use only hunting Bows & Arrows.

Now that's skill!!!

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« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2005, 08:18:29 AM »
nash... at my brothers place in your country I borrowed one of his 22 rifles and me and a friend of his killed about 100 gophers in about 2 hours.

The holes they create were dangerous to my brothers horses and livestock.   They also destroy crops.   They are simply vermin.  If you believe that vermin should be killed then it is a good idea to kill gophers.

I find it pretty funny that people here who think nothing of buying a steak at safeway act like killing to survive is "playing god".

vegetarians who eat crops are also hypocrites on the gopher thing since the gophers have to be destroyed.

most don't care how they get their food so long as no one tells em how it got on the shelf.

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« Reply #29 on: March 25, 2005, 08:43:29 AM »
Take all of what Lasz just said and remember.  It's no different than trapping mice.  Here in Arizona, the Gov't agencies that maintain the water supply to farms will pay people to kill gophers.  Some people supplement their incomes by trapping gophers.  They collect the gopher tails and when they have a coffee can full, they take them down to the water district and collect their bounty.

It's a rodent.  Jesus people, it's a freaken rat.  One that destroys crops and ditches and breaks horses legs...Trust me, spend some night at 2am shoveling dirt like a madman to keep a ditch from washing out because some gopher tunneled under it and you'll have no problem shooting them.
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