<< Pesonally, I think I'll pass. The boar I've seen out there, I don't want to get that close to.>>
I tip my cap and bow to you.
I use my handgun for those close encounters. Though, nothing wrong with spear, knife use. I always say; one, who uses a knife, spear, would do well in a slaughterhouse.
I say: an animal (I’m talking about those big boys) that has tusks, looks like a creature from a Steven King novel and look like it survived the ice age, Ah!!! I prefer not to get my hands dirty, until gutting it. And than, I would not want to do that a hundred times a day, either.
No Joke. I’ve been around people that didn’t see water in a long, long time, smelled better. Talk about clearing out a subway car, during rush hour.
Those things can get as close as 4 feet of ya’. If one can’t see em’, one can sure smell em’.
In Texas, their considered a pest, you can (and hunters do) hunt them at night, at times you get better results, because, daytime in Texas, it gets hot.
I was raised a city boy (some call city slickers) and country boy (some call red-necks, as one knows).
First time hunting those things at night is an experience. It’s not like your hunting with surrounding city lights with neon signs. Its pitch dark. If you’re lucky, you have moonlight And, I don’t mean lucky, as being romance in the air, either.
Yes, you have a flashlight(s). Some do use spears, with/without dogs, besides a knife.
<< kill the animal and get it over with but to film it like that>>.(snipped)
And
<<but that's less a function of the way the hunt was conducted and more of a function of the fact that everything these days (including every private act known to mankind) is seen as fodder for The Video Generation.>>
And
<<Our society's outlook on blood and gore seems to be that if it's at a distance, it's not so bad, but up close and personal? Uh-uh.>>
Including, but not necessarily pertaining too.
<<One reason that hunting has been governed by religion in Human History is to keep crap like this from happening. Life is sacred. That doesn't make hunting wrong,>>
(My hand extended out to you) Welcome to the internet.
As they say: we are a connected world. Anyone can now, see how, others live and go about hunting, among other things.
One does not have to physically travel great distances (known as worldly) to see and experience (not directly) these hunting tactics and other peccadilloes’, as one makes judgment(s). This is anything, but new. Just as slaughter houses were and are used for production in animal (other than game animals).processing.
There is a skill (sportsmanship) to hunting as, as a skill in slaughtering….see kosher (more religion, cultural)
And…it’s not a thing, that a rabbi just comes in and blesses, said animal. There is a technique to it all, always was.
Also,
<<I'm sure PETA has that clip on their site as well.>>
Now, because of our new found technology, video and the internet. There are certain groups (people), example; PETA, that say; about certain industries (names withheld) including hunters, even cultures. Everyone is doing it all wrong, besides saying, it’s cruel, inhumane, and disrespectful and things have to change (maybe, there is truth to it). For me….more of a concern on what other foreign matter (of a different kind), that should not belong with it/in it after being processed. Then all the other poetic concerns.
But….I say; since their experts on cultural affairs and killing animals, humanely, with dignity, respect, show how it should be done. Just don’t talk the talk. Walk the walk. Show those who have been doing it for centuries, years…… The way it should be done.
Hey! Maybe they can change people? And cultures!
I mean….before you kill (no matter what way) an animal. Should one, somewhat, talk to em’, like one talks (a farewell speech) to their pet dog/cat that has to be put down. …… Maybe….Give em’ some (their preferred) companionship and a complimentary bottle of Johnnie Walker, to go with it.
It’s the way, I wanna’ go out of this world!
<<Have you considered that the boys could have cut off the testicles for the sake of the meat?>>
and
<< Some eat the testicles raw like calf testicles.>>
To some, would say, this is a joke. Or some, how appalling it is, even saying it...
If one really understands cultures, they would understand how that culture looks at them, the same way on what they eat.
Me, I’ll pass. Give it to Mikie, He’ll eat it.
<<I'm guessing that Bill Dance kissing a fish is less offensive because the propaganda (Disney films) haven't focused on fish as much as land animals.>>
And
<<In fact there are many cultures that don't consider animal's suffering at all (and do some really brutal things mundanely), and find our Westen "sentimentality" laughable.>>
And
<<<<I'm sure PETA has that clip on their site as well.>>
Bottom line, one has to come to terms with oneself on how this is being done.
This is nothing new. Also, as populations increase, it will continue. Maybe, we should neuter humans? You think that would make PETA happy, as well, as their other objectives?
Or like, on that commercial, instead of the cows saying eat more chicken, the chickens are saying eat more beef and on, and on, to next said animal?
One has to decide, eat meat or go vegetarian.
Speaking for myself, I have come to terms about it. No matter how it’s hunted or slaughtered.
Me, I don’t like to get my hands dirty. Just shoot it (one shot, preferably) and go on.
Now….I’m a hungry. I can go and eat those steaks that are cookin’. Talking about all this hunting and slaughtering.
I ‘m feelin’ a little guilty now. Hoping before they met their fate, they went out with a bang, instead of slaughtering.
