Killing conscience
I was just sitting hear thinking about things to shoot and it got me thinking about what people like to kill the most and why? I my self have never rely shot a hole lot of animals, mainly because my mums a raving hippy and raised my to love all animals, Yet the other side of me wants to shoot the shit out of everything that moves. I find my self staring down the cross hairs of my storm at wood pigeons with the trigger pulled to shooting point, but then a little voise in my head always says “you’ll feel like a cunt if ya do it!”
I know if I shoot it, I have no clue how to prep it for cooking or even if I could?
I shot a pigeon the other day but it was a mercy killing as he was injured beyond repair. I was walking with my partner and kids when she spotted this pigeon chilling in a bush about 2 ft away. I took one look and knew something was wrong, so went into my yard and grabbed a net and box.
As I placed the net on him he dint even budge so I boxed him and took him into my yard, grabbed the storm, opened the box and put one straight through the top of its neck. As soon as he stopped twitching I took a look to see what was wrong with him. I lifted his wing away from his body only to find a huge hole the size of his chest crawling with maggots! needless to say I dint feel an once of guilt.
So who hear struggles with guilt over killing animals and who hear just don’t give a fudge?
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I thought I was the only one that did that….
Shit, i’ve even typed up a war and peace like response and then decided to no post… 😕
You’ll be back. 😆
You ever read a thread start to finish and get ready to jump in with both feet and then say “Aw fuck it”???
Animals pass seeds in their feces, then birds scratch thru the feces and eat the seeds and the parasite eggs. Grazing mamals eat the eggs of parasites from grass stems, predators eat the guts and get them. I remember seening tapeworms in blackbirds when I was 10, that was 51 years ago.
Getting killed and eaten is part of nature, and it never is painless. Animals usually kill with their teeth, and that takes time. But here is a revelation for you, they don’t remember it.
If that bothers you, take up golf in a nice city course.
Roachcreek
You know when your huntin em and just pull the breast out you never look in their guts .??? Wonder how many could have had something.
The only time i have ever really looked into the guts and inards of a bird has been when i was looking at pellet performance.
So really i haven’t looked at hardly any of the birds guts to see if they had any thing.
As long as the bird looked healthy and fat which most all that i have put into my bag have , their breast was nice and plump.
And i always cook wild game well done because of chance of worms and parasites , it really doesn’t change anything for me.
Hell i have cut cist out of deer, worms off rabbits , and long as thaty looked healthy they where cooked well done .
Did this bird look nice and plump and have a healthy lookin breast.
Yup, most birds carry parasites and worms. As PB says, as long as you cook the meat well it should be ok.
You know when your huntin em and just pull the breast out you never look in their guts .??? Wonder how many could have had something.
The only time i have ever really looked into the guts and inards of a bird has been when i was looking at pellet performance.
So really i haven’t looked at hardly any of the birds guts to see if they had any thing.
As long as the bird looked healthy and fat which most all that i have put into my bag have , their breast was nice and plump.
And i always cook wild game well done because of chance of worms and parasites , it really doesn’t change anything for me.
Hell i have cut cist out of deer, worms off rabbits , and long as thaty looked healthy they where cooked well done .
Did this bird look nice and plump and have a healthy lookin breast.
We always plucked them and cut off the butt. Cutting off the butt always
cut through about 1/4 of their innards so if they were in there we would
have seen them before… That is how I found them… The bird looked
great… I wish I could visually tell the birds with worms from the ones
without..
well its in their guts, and i dont eat their guts.
You know when your huntin em and just pull the breast out you never look in their guts .??? Wonder how many could have had something.
The only time i have ever really looked into the guts and inards of a bird has been when i was looking at pellet performance.
So really i haven’t looked at hardly any of the birds guts to see if they had any thing.
As long as the bird looked healthy and fat which most all that i have put into my bag have , their breast was nice and plump.
And i always cook wild game well done because of chance of worms and parasites , it really doesn’t change anything for me.
Hell i have cut cist out of deer, worms off rabbits , and long as thaty looked healthy they where cooked well done .
Did this bird look nice and plump and have a healthy lookin breast.
How could a dove get worms i wonder, hell all they eat is seads, and they dont lay on the ground.??????
It is a heart breaking mystery to me too….
Huh, i have never seen any like that in em, and have looked in a bunch, and lately too 🙄
How could a dove get worms i wonder, hell all they eat is seeds, and they don’t lay on the ground.??????
There are worms (parasites) in most living creatures… I’m thinking you may be hard pressed to find one without. 😯
Parasites will become the big health scare in the near future. And for good reason, not easy things to kill and they are everywhere… 😯
Doves… All of them so far…. White Wing, Mourning, and ring neck…
Hey mam what kind of bird had those.
i got face to face with this subject today.
Miffer Ghoffer, as my 3 yo daughter calls him (Mr. Gofer = woodchuck) was in the yard this morning right about @ the 55 yard mark
the wife distracted our daughter and i slipped out to the garage to get the .25
1st (head) shot anchored him, tail straight up
2nd (head) shot dropped his tail and @ x32 i saw no motion
walk up to him, shovel in hand, damn thing is still breathing and managed to crawl 18″ with 1/4 of his skull missing WTF?
took 2x more (back of the skull) shots to put him OUT
im still a bit disturbed @ how long it took me to put him out of his misery
i dont feel bad about killing a woodchuck but i know it wasnt painless and will have a much harder time pulling the trigger next time.
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I don’t think they do…. Like I said, I have never heard of it nor heard anyone talk
about it before…. As far as I know, I am the only one that has ever seen
worms in these things…
I feel for ya man 😆 That shit must have been traumatising!!!!
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Miffer Ghoffer, as my 3 yo daughter calls him (Mr. Gofer = woodchuck) was in the yard this morning right about @ the 55 yard mark
the wife distracted our daughter and i slipped out to the garage to get the .25
1st (head) shot anchored him, tail straight up
2nd (head) shot dropped his tail and @ x32 i saw no motion
walk up to him, shovel in hand, damn thing is still breathing and managed to crawl 18″ with 1/4 of his skull missing WTF?
took 2x more (back of the skull) shots to put him OUT
im still a bit disturbed @ how long it took me to put him out of his misery
i dont feel bad about killing a woodchuck but i know it wasnt painless and will have a much harder time pulling the trigger next time.
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😯 That must have been some tough old woodchuck, how is that even posible? do they have a real small brain or do you think it may have been nerves kepping some of his body going ya know like when things twitch or when chicken keep running?