jossie

?? Inappropriate? For an engineer? Are you assuming you are talking to someone else? And BTW I don't give a s*** about your knees.

R I C H

You're a nurse. That's a health profession, and is somewhat linked to dissuading the general population from ingesting unhealthy drugs.

If you're Mr Jossie, posting under your wife's username, you might want to register your own.

Did I ask you to care about my health? I was making a point about my intolerance to drugs. Swearing is pretty juvenile.

cjones

I assumed we'd probably have to before moving to Canada, but on arrival we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the country actually had a passable selection of shops that catered for that sort of thing.

You may also be interested to know that other establishments cater for most of one's sartorial requirements, just in case you were worried about having to dress your wife and children in buckskins.

caretaker

I had a friend who bought his wife a coyote coat and I thought it was ugly. All a matter of opinion though.

CKMaddAll

Ducks.

caretaker

I use a shotgun for deer; the zone I like to hunt in doesn't allow high powered rifles so since I don't trust my archery skills enough to hit that cigarette pack consistently and don't own a muzzle loader or crossbow I use a shotgun and a 1oz rifled slug. My friend the Bwana said he shot a cape buffalo with a 12 ga slug once and it worked very well so no lack of power at close range.

jossie

We use slugs in our defender shotgun and they don't half give a kick!

CKMaddAll

Does anyone know anything about flint lock shooting? I understand youcan purchase one without a license... I this correct?

I am going on my first hunt this weekend with my compound bow- exciting stuff!

caretaker

I think you'd still need a license for a flintlock - you do for a precussion rifle. Good luck on your hunt.

allegra

"Always aiming to leave the landscape as found.." ?

Hardly "as found" after innocent animals, gracing that landscape, have been killed.

CKMaddAll

And that leads us naturally back to the differences between hunting for food and farming for food. Which animal has a better life? The wild duck who is shot and killed instantly, or the factory chickens who are packed together for their entire lives and when no longer required, are thrown in to an industrial grinder (alive) and spread over farmers fields.

I look forward to your response...

*edit* I assume you only use free range, organic and most importantly... "guilty" meat in your Bobotie? Ony a hunter would shoot the "innocent" animals!

dbd33

There can't be many of them, it'd be fairer to take the case of the bird damaged by shot that flops away to die on the ground either from a dog bite or a car tyre.

Probably not raised for food. Plant food, perhaps.

It's all cruelty, hunting for fun, farming for food. There's less pretence from the farmers.

CKMaddAll

Can't be many what? I don't understand your message... What was raised for plant food?

If hunting for food is cruel then a lion eating an impala is cruel... Should this be stopped? Indeed without hunting, early man would never have survived... I suppose without man there would never be such a thing as a vegetarian, so it wouldn't all be bad!

allegra

I think that the duck or chicken would respond that there isn't much difference between being shot while alive or crushed while alive. Death is death whether it be by either of these inaccepable methods.

Not "my" bobotie but a delicious bobotie prepared by a very good SA cook some years ago long before I became a vegetarian.

And if animals aren't innocent then what are they?

allegra

What choice does the lion have? It can hardly pop down to WalMart for a week's shopping.