It is very much a cultural thing.
The survivalists have a particular social-political twist to it (the end of
civilization is nigh, be prepared to survive). And there are the great white
hunter holdovers from the colonial era. And then there are the urban
warriors who get to feel like Tarzan and brandish a gun once a year during
hunting season (the country folk have been known to paint "COW" on the side
of livestock during the season to help the poor twits identify proper
targets).
But in many communities hunting is a revered cutural tradition. No animal is
killed solely for sport. No animal is shot without being tracked and
ultimatley put down. No animal is killed except to be used as food. It puts
killing in perspective as opposed to midless video game shoot-em-ups. The
skills are passed among generations. The younger ones taught
self-discipline. And these are the folks who no how to handle firearms
safely. These are tho folks who want to manage the wildlife and preserve the
environment.
And sure the taxidermy lets the hunter bring home a trophy. Not much
different really than the rich businessman's trophy sports car or trophy
country house or trophy wife for that matter!
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: Tahir
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Deer protection
Andersonarb@xxxx.com wrote:
>did anybody see that
>recent BBC TV documentary "Taxidermists, Stuff the World." It was deeply
weird,
>They showed a Yank survivalist sort of guy teaching his 9 year old
daughter to
>shoot a White Tailed Deer. After butchering and skinning it (where it lay)
the
>9 year old stuffed it and took it to the taxidermy world
championships.....
>
>
>
Scary in a funny kind of way, not as scary as the Swiss guy who stuffed
little fish though...
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