I once shot a chipmunk with a .22 pistol.
Not because I had felt threatened or because I was hungry, or because it was a "varmint" raiding a farmer's Alfalfa crop, but because I was young and bored and couldn't find any jackrabbits.
That statement is "full disclosure"; I've shot things I didn't need to shoot, and I regret it.
A recent Rant against "Trophy Hunting" included this:
A couple photographed kissing next to a lion they have just killed while on safari has caused outrage.
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But the pictures were widely condemned after being placed on the website of Legelela Safaris – a tour company which specialises in organising big game hunts.... and :
Australian TV host Danny Clayton said: “More idiots that get their rocks off by pointing a boomstick at a beautiful animal."
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4 comments:
Modern folks seem to be very offended by most anything and everything. Better they just mind their own business.
It is OK to shoot a chipmunk, but if you get it stuffed, mounted and hung on the wall, you may have gone overboard.
Well .... NO, it was a Major Power .22, hollowpoint and there wasn't a lot of monk left in that chip. BUt I DID have my pronghorn antelope mounted (not the whole thing!) about 30 years later.
Antelope OK, chipmunk not so OK
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