Just need to rant -gun happy hunters-

[Royd Wood]

It's amazing how people--even hunters--can be so stupid! How can you not tell a horse apart from a moose, or even a llama from a deer?? It's not that hard! People who call themselves hunters aren't even hunters if they can't tell the difference between what is wildlife and what is domestic life. There should be more education out there for the "stupid people" to understand the difference between horses and moose, cows and moose, llamas and deer, elk and horses, the list goes on.

And yes, unfortunately stupid hunters like those you mentioned kstaven also live up here in Canada. What a shame...

Oh come on Karin they all know Southern Alberta is in Canada - we cant claim all the nutters are south of the border

 

[pridegoethb4thefall]

Maybe they need to make anyone who buys guns or bullets take a quick picture based test to be real sure they can tell the difference between hunting animals and private livestock! If ya cant make a positive ID, you don't get your gun/bullets!

 

[animalfarm]

Sometimes "stupid" is just an excuse. I have a 28 month old Belted Galloway steer, prime for the deep freeze and he comes up hanging leg useless during bow hunting season. His tendon has been cut. Neigbor comes over and offers to take him off my hands for free. I didn't suspect a thing until this, and went down to check the herd.

Is it a coincidence that his teen-age son is a bow hunter and we found their deer blind facing into my pasture? I am out a whole hind quarter and the fees for emergency slaughter on my farm. There is no mistaking a Belted Galloway for anything but a Belted Galloway. We have now installed cameras and the neighbor is pissed because he had to remove his deer blind from the property line. Didn't accuse them of anything; just made them comply to property rights.

My endurance horse on the other hand, is the same size and exact color of a deer. Through the trees, a mistake could be made if one were to give the benefit of the doubt. I don't take any chances with her. These idiots would shoot her in a box stall if they got the chance. During hunting season she wears a hunters orange halter with a bell, a cute little redesigned hunters cap and this year we cut up some hunter's orange fleece vests and made a big band to go around her belly. Best dressed deer in the province. Now we hope no one thinks she is their hunting buddy and takes a shot.

 

[herfrds]

Glad your bull made it. Years ago one of our cows was not so lucky. We could not figure out why this cow was sick. Got her in the barn and vet came out he did everything he could but she died. Since we were all stumped he did a post mortem on her and found that she had been shot and it caused a massive infection in her. Bullet was still in her too!
The scareiest one is when we found a bullet hole in the side of our shop and it had missed hitting our big air compressure by about a 1/2"! If it had hit it we would have lost part of our shop because the tank was pressuerized. If either DH or DS had been in there they could have been shot!

Had a couple hunters a few years ago stop at the game check station with llama's in the back!

I'm a life long hunter and these idiots just drive me crazy!

 

[greybeard]

I've been waitin for the State to announce an Emu season here. So many were turned loose in the National Forest here when that EMU lean and lo cholesterol meat idea went south and they are still reproducing in the wild such that they are becoming somewhat of a problem when the go out in front of a car at night on the highway. Kinda surprised--I would have thought the coyotes would have decimated them long before now.

 

[Bossroo]

Emus have been around for centuries along with the Dingos in Australia. So, a coyote isn't that much of a problem for an Emu that will kick the lights out for the coyote in defence of their chicks.

 

[marlowmanor]

I was thinking a coyote wouldn't be much of a match for an emu either. At least not an adult emu. I believe I've heard an emu can kill a lion with one kick. So a coyote would be no match for an angry emu.

 

[greybeard]

That's good to learn info Bossroo/Marlowmanor. Thank you--now I know.
They sure are silly looking at times tho--walking around the woods with their heads a-bobbin

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

heads a-bobbin

Mental picture. lol

 

[WildRoseBeef]

It's amazing how people--even hunters--can be so stupid! How can you not tell a horse apart from a moose, or even a llama from a deer?? It's not that hard! People who call themselves hunters aren't even hunters if they can't tell the difference between what is wildlife and what is domestic life. There should be more education out there for the "stupid people" to understand the difference between horses and moose, cows and moose, llamas and deer, elk and horses, the list goes on.

And yes, unfortunately stupid hunters like those you mentioned kstaven also live up here in Canada. What a shame...

Oh come on Karin they all know Southern Alberta is in Canada - we cant claim all the nutters are south of the border

Guess that's why they always call us the "crazy Canucks."