quote Originally posted by blackrams: With that, feel free to move on without me.

Hallelujah! You couldn't stick to the topic anyway.

My comment (copied below) has nothing to do with people eating meat or wildlife being "managed". Whether it's due to ignorance or avoidance, a few people here seem to have trouble comprehending/understanding/acknowledging this simple basic truth...

quote Originally posted by Patrick: A person's got to be some sort of sick fuk if they enjoy killing.

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For over 20 years now, I've made lots of posts and started lots of threads, with a huge variety of subject matter. Almost from the beginning of me getting on the internet, I've stated and firmly believed my text belongs to me only until I click 'submit reply' or 'Post Thread' upon which time, the thread belongs to the community at large and is free to go where it may, and most often, it does. I'm simply 'not all that' to the point I want to control what other people say in a thread I started. It's never really 'about me' or what I want. My interest is what others have to say...about anything. (after all, I already KNOW what I think about it or anything else). I have zero interest in telling people "You need to talk about WHAT I WANT!"

People of all ages, collect trophies for a variety of reasons and in just as many ways. The world is full of millions people that net moths, butterflies and all kinds of insects to be stabbed thru the body and mounted on a poster board along with dozens of different ones just to show "Look what I have". (there are some laws prohibiting the collection of endangered species of insects). Anglers catch a great fish, wrap it, throw it in ice and freeze it 'good side up' and send it off to the taxidermist to be mounted and in neither the bug or fish category, do they ever take a single bite of them. Not many out of the billions of inhabitants on Earth ever complain about it.
It's seemingly only when it's a "beautiful mammal' that it raises some control instinct to make people whine about it. I suppose if that big largemouth bass jumps out of the water and clamps down on the fisherman's gonads, he deserves it.

Regarding the 'puma' (we call them cougars or mountain lions here), I don't know the story behind the hunt. They are not a regulated species here, meaning the Texas Fish and Wildlife department (or whatever they call themselves nowadays) list them as 'unregulated' meaning there is no open or closed season, no size limit, no quantity limit or anything else. If you see one, you can freely shoot it (provided it's legal to use a firearm where it takes place and you 'may' need a regular hunting license too. I haven't looked in to it that much). People have killed them in their front yard of a subdivision,and only got a citation for discharging a firearm in public.

I do find it rather odd, that you can actually pay to go on a 'cow hunt'. You pay, to go sit in a pasture and when a longhorn or beefmaster or brahma comes sauntering up, you shoot it, and can opt to get the meat (or not) and get the head or just the horns, for mounting. Different strokes..

I haven't actually 'gone hunting' for meat or enjoyment since June 1971.

I have, killed predators and nuisance animals any time I saw them and have never taken a bite of them or mounted their heads like scalps or ears on a pole in a wigwam.

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I've got something tunneling in my yard and a very large burrow I recently found between the two gooseneck trailers i still have. Whatever it is, it's gonna die and it won't get eaten. Don't need a trophy on the wall either. Some things just need killing.
Thinking I'll try to gas it to death and let its stinking corpse rot in that burrow.

Rams

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