The old forman who trained me in the tree business in the '70's was orphanned
in the '20's. He and his brother had to hunt after school if they wanted to
eat. And trap. And fish. As a young adult, after the depression hit, they
supported themselves through the winter ice fishing.
In his fifties he had a heart attack. Just before hunting season. His
daughter told me years later that the family and doctors said "well no more
hunting for you." He looked at all of them and said "the hell with you all,
if I can't hunt I'd just as soon be dead and i'm going as soon as can get out
of this bed." As the story goes they convinced him to sit on the porch and
only shhot the deer that the other chased into the pasture. That lasted a
day. Next day he walked the pasture. Next day he was hiking up the hills
with the rest of the gang.
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: RMArborist@xxxx.com
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: Deer protection and hunting
I "grew-up" in the 50's-60's, as Scott described, hunting to supplement the
table in the back woods of Minnesota (or "out in the sticks" as my
"city-slicker cousins" called it) - - not only venison, rabbit, and
squirrel - but also
porcupine, skunk, and muskrat - as well as the birds like phesant,
partridge, and duck. Believe me there is a reverence for ANYTHING one
takes - and it
is used/eaten -
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