for those that missed it today there was a heated discussion today bout basically hunting and the like in the chat box......seems because i refused to equate animals to humans i am a "dumb redneck" according to one individual.....evidently its a new guy who doesnt know me or he might have left it as just redneck
to this i say, yep i am a redneck and proud off it......if your enjoying bread with supper tonight or having a beer yah can thank rednecks like me and my family as they have been growing wheat and malt barley around here for most of 100 years.....having beef? ive pulled stuck calves out of distressed mothers that couldnt give birth without help....ive branded calves, castrated steers, lanced infected sores, bucked hay to feed hungry cattle in -40 temps all so those superior folks that buy their meat prepackaged in a supermarket dont have to get their hands dirty......i can point out to you what pasture the beef in my freezer was raised on, can you?
think i got called a stupid redneck cause i refuse to accept that just cause a critter is cute or shows a bit of intelligence it shouldnt be killed.....meat is meat, i can take two 250 pound mule deer buck and butcher them and package them and even make a tub of sausage in under 4 hours.....i eat pheasants, sage and sharptail grouse, and various waterfowl.....i have a personal vendetta against hungarian partridge and kill every one of the dang things my bird dog will get me on within the daily limits.....ive been known to shoot cute and cuddly cottontail rabbits cause i felt like having rabbit stew...... i also pay attention to population studies and dictate my hunting according to them.....in bad years i severely cut back what i take even if Fish and Game figures im prolly ok filling all 8 deer tags they are willing to sell me....
my wife is also a redneck and has killed more head of big game than i have......she also doesnt subscribe to the if its cute it shouldnt be killed......she is a confirmed doe and fawn serial killer.....she isnt stupid though as she holds degrees in computer systems integration and accounting.......together we are owners and run two newspapers and are highly respected amongst our peers even if our papers are in small lil poo-dunk towns...my wife is so well respected USA Today tried to convince her to uproot us and move to the east coast to be one of their editors...
we also donate alot of money to organizations like Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl which have done more to save wetlands in the US and Canada than any other groups.....you like seeing pronghorn and elk outside national parks? thank redneck hunters like me and my wife......its ppl like us that saved them from being wiped out not the treehugger types that like to do rallys and such but refuse to actually open their wallets wide and also get their hands dirty and volunteer their time out in the field doing the work thats needed to actually save critters.....
prolly also hurt my case with this individual that i said some critters need killing, when the ground squirrels and rabbits get to thick around here i spend time on family ranches thinning them out, the individual stated that if i didnt shoot all the coyotes and foxes and such they would eat the surplus of critters.....seems the individual has no clue how ecosystems actually work and that critters like squirrels and rabbits go through booms and busts......yeah the preditors eat some and their population increases with but much slower than is needed and once the population of rodents gets to high a whole lot of them start starving to death.....there are plenty of coyotes, foxes and hawks to eat the rodents, i rarely shoot predators anymore......but the predators that are here dont slow down a boom cycle....
yes im a redneck and so are my family and we dont apologize for it, i dont think cause a critter is cute it shouldnt be killed, i know where the animals in my freezer come from as do my kids and we have no illusions that they magically appear cut and wrapped on store shelves......we are rednecks and when the food in your local grocery store aint there i aint gonna worry bout it cause we will have no problem feeding ourselves....
to this i say, yep i am a redneck and proud off it......if your enjoying bread with supper tonight or having a beer yah can thank rednecks like me and my family as they have been growing wheat and malt barley around here for most of 100 years.....having beef? ive pulled stuck calves out of distressed mothers that couldnt give birth without help....ive branded calves, castrated steers, lanced infected sores, bucked hay to feed hungry cattle in -40 temps all so those superior folks that buy their meat prepackaged in a supermarket dont have to get their hands dirty......i can point out to you what pasture the beef in my freezer was raised on, can you?
think i got called a stupid redneck cause i refuse to accept that just cause a critter is cute or shows a bit of intelligence it shouldnt be killed.....meat is meat, i can take two 250 pound mule deer buck and butcher them and package them and even make a tub of sausage in under 4 hours.....i eat pheasants, sage and sharptail grouse, and various waterfowl.....i have a personal vendetta against hungarian partridge and kill every one of the dang things my bird dog will get me on within the daily limits.....ive been known to shoot cute and cuddly cottontail rabbits cause i felt like having rabbit stew...... i also pay attention to population studies and dictate my hunting according to them.....in bad years i severely cut back what i take even if Fish and Game figures im prolly ok filling all 8 deer tags they are willing to sell me....
my wife is also a redneck and has killed more head of big game than i have......she also doesnt subscribe to the if its cute it shouldnt be killed......she is a confirmed doe and fawn serial killer.....she isnt stupid though as she holds degrees in computer systems integration and accounting.......together we are owners and run two newspapers and are highly respected amongst our peers even if our papers are in small lil poo-dunk towns...my wife is so well respected USA Today tried to convince her to uproot us and move to the east coast to be one of their editors...
we also donate alot of money to organizations like Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl which have done more to save wetlands in the US and Canada than any other groups.....you like seeing pronghorn and elk outside national parks? thank redneck hunters like me and my wife......its ppl like us that saved them from being wiped out not the treehugger types that like to do rallys and such but refuse to actually open their wallets wide and also get their hands dirty and volunteer their time out in the field doing the work thats needed to actually save critters.....
prolly also hurt my case with this individual that i said some critters need killing, when the ground squirrels and rabbits get to thick around here i spend time on family ranches thinning them out, the individual stated that if i didnt shoot all the coyotes and foxes and such they would eat the surplus of critters.....seems the individual has no clue how ecosystems actually work and that critters like squirrels and rabbits go through booms and busts......yeah the preditors eat some and their population increases with but much slower than is needed and once the population of rodents gets to high a whole lot of them start starving to death.....there are plenty of coyotes, foxes and hawks to eat the rodents, i rarely shoot predators anymore......but the predators that are here dont slow down a boom cycle....
yes im a redneck and so are my family and we dont apologize for it, i dont think cause a critter is cute it shouldnt be killed, i know where the animals in my freezer come from as do my kids and we have no illusions that they magically appear cut and wrapped on store shelves......we are rednecks and when the food in your local grocery store aint there i aint gonna worry bout it cause we will have no problem feeding ourselves....