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Lots of batting practice:

http://tinyurl.com/o9owv

The brutal murder of harp seal pups still evokes a visceral
reaction
after
all these years. Think how much better the US baseball team would
be
if
we
could bash the skulls of those Canadian hunters. I'm betting Dusty
Baker
could probably raise the Cubs' team average by .200.

Max

Brutal murder? My ass! It's no worse than what we do to millions of
pigs and cows every year.

Hardly. Most domesticated farm animals slaughtered for food and hides
are
sacrificed with a device termed a "humane killer," which is little
more
than
a gun that blows the brains to mush instantly, obviating pain on the
part
of
the animal. The animal is generally dead before it hits the ground.

Pretty true, Max, except - have you ever been in an abbatoir? Seen the
slaughter line? Seen how the beasts are handled *before* they even get
there?

I have. I wrote software for a research project dealing with feedlots
and spent a lot of time close up & personal with all of this stuff.
That was 10 years ago and I haven't forgotten it. You haven't a clue of
just how much suffering and fear those beasts go through prior to their
quick and painless death.

You're making a really, really bad comparison between
institutionalised, factory slaughter and clubbing cute little seals to
death.

Both are abhorrent.

PDW

Great point!

That's why hunting is more humane than a slaughterhouse.

The anti-hunters haven't a clue!

Damn right. One second peacefully grazing in the field, the next dead
from a brain shot. I spent a huge amount of time in my teens thru to my
40's hunting.

You shoot for the head??? Interesting, and most unorthodox.

Max, if I'm hunting for the pot, I'm not there to play games. I use a
spotlight and a scope sighted rifle shooting from the back of a 4WD,
and if I can't get a clean head shot, I don't shoot.

Simple.

If you shoot a kangaroo through the chest, even with a .243 using
hollow points, it's odds-on it's gonna run 150-200 metres before
bleeding out and stopping.

Rabbits, foxes & feral cats, OTOH, we used to shoot for fun. Chest
shots were plenty good enough.

PDW