Thank you! Thank who? Thank when?

[lenze]

Do they open up a hunting season on all those deer?
Not the ones in city limits, I'm sure, but the ones outside?

Funny you should mention taking the dog as a decoy too.
In my 30 years in Alaska I've known of 3 dogs actually named 'Bait'

Yeap and even special seasons. This has been a big issue in the city council chanbers the last month or so. All kinds of proposals, such
1)Just let em be!!
2)Capture them and relocate them
3)Sterilize them
4)Bring in National Guard Sharpshoots to kill them(I'm serious)

Number 1 is NOT an option for most people.

lenze

 

[Cbrine]

Are the suggetions for limiting the deer or the city council members? and the deer wouldn't be as big a problem if you didn't let them in the city council chambers.



PS- I lived in Calgary for a couple of years, and anytime I encountered a mountian lion in the area message on a trail, I turned around and went back. Cats like to play with there food. I would say Banaff has a similiar problem with Elk running through the streets. 'course it's a nationial park so they only shoot criminals there.

 

[Richard Schollar]

With that in mind you can also go hiking with no more than a .22 pistol and someone you don't care much for.
(Shoot him in the leg & run like hell.) Lol

Ah that gave me the heartiest laugh I've had in a while!!

 

[HalfAce]

Yeah, you want to watch who you go hiking with around here, and keep a special eye
on what they're carrying!

 

[riaz]

(Shoot him in the leg & run like hell.) Lol

Stop! I can't bear it any more!

And in another, even lamer attempt to get back on thread

Oh, and in a lame attempt to keep/get this thread back on track, when they wait like that I usually say "Thank you

do you post back a "You're welcome"

 

[Norie]

Do you shoot puffins?

 

[HalfAce]

lenze:
You're city should do what they let us do here.
Along with my moose anyone with a hunting license is allowed 6 deer apiece each year.
We have a very healthy deer population, but they ain't taking over the city. (And there's
still plenty for the wolves, coyotes, wolverines & other critters.)
We were down your way (I think in 2000 or '01) and though we were just driving through,
if memory serves Helena isn't all that huge of a city. (Is it?)
Seems like 500 citified deer would be alot unless the place is considerably bigger than
what I'm thinking.



Riaz:
As a matter of fact I normally do.
Usually either 'Most welcome' or an actual "You're very welcome' depending on
the thank you I received. (and as often as not some other comment as well.)


Norie:

Nope, I can honestly say I've never shot a puffin.
What do they taste like?
I'll likely never shoot one either unless
(a) I see one and
(b) it looks like it would taste good. :wink:

 

[Norie]

What do they taste like?

I don't know, not being of the cannibal persuasion.

I don't think people actually shoot puffins anyway.

They are more of a sitting target, so there's no sport in it.

Anyways I'm a veggie.

 

[HalfAce]

A veggie? That's cool. I love vegetables too!
A sitting target is good. Saves bullets and you don’t have to chase them through the
woods to get them or bring them back.
As for the sport of it, I’m afraid I don’t have much use for sport hunters.
If I’m not going to eat it (and it ain’t trying to eat me) I don’t see any reason
to shoot anything.
I don’t even bother to save the antlers. Never saw the sense in packing the extra
weight out of the woods for something we’re not going to eat.

 

[Norie]

HalfAce

I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that to catch a puffin you have to dangle yourself off seacliffs.

In fact I think it used to be a rite of passage in some places, and also a very good source of food.

Oh, and they didn't have nylon roops/belays/crampons etc.

I've seen pictures, and it's pretty scary.