George Shirley said...

> Tom Biasi wrote:
>>>
>>> Just Wow Andy... I can't even put my mind around that one.
>>>
>>> I haven't hunter for at least ten years, now, but I still remember
>>> almost every critter I have shared life with.
>>>
>>> I have deer, turkeys, foxes, ground hogs, squirrels, raccoons, and the
>>> list goes on, on my property daily. To consider "boxing" them, and
>>> shooting at them, is just something I can't even consider.
>>>
>>> If I had no heart, at least I'd eat well. But those that sponsored
>>> that "turkey" shoot are heartless, and I would never spend any future
>>> time on them again, locals or neighbors it just does not matter. It
>>> just wouldn't compute, and for anyone that it did, I would not want to
>>> know them.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>> I do not practice this but give a little thought to culture.
>> If a turkey is selected to die for a meal, creative society means were
>> invented to do it. The turkey was to die anyway.
>> So you grab it, lay its head across a tree stump and give it the axe,
>> is this better?
>> I would not kill an animal unless for food or defense.
>> The turkey doesn't know anything. The community is taking a harvest.
>> Just some thought.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
> In the old days in the south turkey shoots had the turkey in a box,
> nowadays they shoot at a paper target. No screaming turkeys flopping
> around anymore.


There were cease fires called for turkey kills and they'd run out, carrying
a flaying live turkey out to the box and pop the hood to retrieve the dead
bird and replace it with a live one.

Doubt they knew their demise!

Andy