I guess I’m the only guy in this entire forum that hates killing animals. I just hate it. Always have. I’m glad our monastics have the diet they do.
I’m right there with you. Never gone hunting or anything. I hate when I’m driving and accidentally hit a squirrel in the road (only happened one time that I know of, and I actually brought it up in confession).I guess I’m the only guy in this entire forum that hates killing animals. I just hate it. Always have. I’m glad our monastics have the diet they do.
It seems like eating them was a concession of the Fall more than an admonition or anticipation on Gods part, but I could be wrong.
5.56 is barely larger than a 22cal. It actually would be a good round.Sounds delicious...
Buttermilk Fried Squirrel with Southern Gravy
I need a decent BB gun to shoot these suckers. I'm afraid 5.56 won't leave anything behind, let alone the cost of a single round these days.
5.56 is barely larger than a 22cal. It actually would be a good round.
You can buy a non-fragmenting round. Plus I doubt a fragmenting round would disperse all that much in a squirrelRight, .223 isn’t much bigger than .22lr. The issue is with bullet design. 5.56 is designed to fragment on impact. Plus, I imagine it’d make too much racket for small game.
You can buy a non-fragmenting round. Plus I doubt a fragmenting round would disperse all that much in a squirrel
Dang... A Davey Crickett is a fantastic squirrel rifle if you're fairly accurate. Grown men carry them for squirrels. A .410 shotgun is good too. My wife has one but the shells are rather $$$ for some reason right now. I just don't like shot in my game.On further research, I think we could get by with using the .22 rifle we already have. I didn’t want to at first because it’s my daughters little Crickett.
Problem solved.
We raised animals for food all my life. They're well cared for. Game animals if not hunted would overpopulate And run rampant with disease. WE killed their predators to keep ourselves safe.
There are hunters who waste game but it is rare. Most people who hunt give away a lot of meat to those in need. My dad is recovering right now from Covid that was made much worse because he was harvesting a wild pig out in the cold for a family with small kids.
This is a way of life for folks that are good natured and love animals. I've spent more than one night out helping a distressed farm animal. Don't mistake the discussion on here for animal cruelty. For some of us it's survival, especially in the winter.
This is not how I want this to go but...With grocery stores, unless you live in Siberia, I don’t buy the survival angle, with respect.
I am not saying anyone practices animal cruelty, but I am saying I take no pleasure in killing animals nor do I have the stomach for it. I am an avid shooter, but I like precision target shooting, trap shooting, not blowing animals away. At our sportsman’s club, I quit going to meetings having to endure machismo on steroids seeing photos after photo of giant elk blown to Swiss cheese with guts all over the place.
While I find hunting unnecessary and sad, it’s far superior to factory farming. A gestation crate, the culling process, and all the cruelty of farming makes most hunting look like warm fuzzy animal love.
I must say, though, putting a bullet in an animal’s head as one cowers behind a bolt action from 100 yards in camo is not my idea of “loving animals,” but, as they say, to each his own.
Dang... A Davey Crickett is a fantastic squirrel rifle if you're fairly accurate. Grown men carry them for squirrels. A .410 shotgun is good too. My wife has one but the shells are rather $$$ for some reason right now. I just don't like shot in my game.
Please... Let's move on.Who are the diet nuts on here that you’re referring too? I don’t remember seeing anyone arguing “meat is bad because it’s high protein or high fat!”
Pretty sure the last time I looked at a food pyramid was like 5 years ago, and I don’t eat much processed food.
I'd like to go back to the original OP on here. Are any of you familiar with the Foxfire books? I'm thinking of doing a curriculum with them as the text