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Sunday, 4 August 2013
Deerstalking in Wiltshire Pt1
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18 comments:
Please feel free to leave comments. I really enjoy hearing what readers think. The rules are the same as round my dinner table:
You're welcome to disagree, life would be way too boring if we all agreed with each other and we'd never learn anything.
I like to think that we're all grown up enough to argue every last point, right down to the bone, without bearing a grudge afterwards.
Come on in the waters lovely
SBW
Nice! It looks like that is one of the light morph ones? If so are they common on that patch (must confess to being a bit old skool and preferring the darker/classic colour morphs)?
ReplyDeleteTai
ReplyDeleteNo not on this patch anyway, HunterX believes that a very dark Master Buck passed through the area a few seasons ago, as the herd are darker than they used to be.
In the south east The Bambi Basher and i once saw a mixed sex group that were all very pale - from weimaraner to almost a true white. Sadly not on a bit of land we had permission to shoot on.
SBW
What twerp stuck a couple of bracken fronds in its mouth?
ReplyDeleteBefore you know it people will be playing the tuba and pouring 110% proof fire lighter fuel down their necks in celebration.
Jeez, give me strength......
Chees I knew I'd forgotten something.SBW
ReplyDeleteMust read the full story.... details please.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with tubas and 110 proof ?
Hodge that would be
ReplyDeleteDifficult to transport and leads me into bad ways.LOL
SBW
What's wrong with tubas and 110 proof ?
ReplyDeleteNothing by themselves. Its when you put them together with stuffing green veg down some dead animals throat at the end of a hunt that I find utterly pointless.
Good job i left them at home then, I wouldn't want an anonymous commenter to feel pointless
ReplyDeleteSBW
SBW
ReplyDeleteFYI I have never felt pointless.
But I do find the stuffing of green veg in the mouths of dead animals, the honking of horns over their dead bodies, and the toasting of their recent departure to be pointless. Add the muttering of some thanks to their recently departed spirit and you have a full set of pointless rituals.
Anon
ReplyDeleteThanks i'll change my behaviour accordingly, your approval means everything to me
SBW
SBW
ReplyDelete"Thanks i'll change my behaviour accordingly, your approval means everything to me"
Hey, don't change on my account....
All that respect for the quarry and communing with nature bs. Dead is dead, all I know is the bloody deer or boar don't give a stuff either way. I put it down to some people just like pouncing about.
Anon
ReplyDeleteWell yes in a literal sense dead is dead, or in the slaughterhouse dead can be 'too dead'.
From the still limited research I've done it would seem that the rituals surrounding animals deaths at the hunters hand all have their roots in conservation and hygiene, I'll be writing about this later as and when research time permits.
SBW
PS how about adding a name to your comments, it makes it easier to differentiate between Annon's, like taking off your motorbike helmet or burka?
Well yes in a literal sense dead is dead, or in the slaughterhouse dead can be 'too dead'.
ReplyDeleteFrom the still limited research I've done it would seem that the rituals surrounding animals deaths at the hunters hand all have their roots in conservation and hygiene, I'll be writing about this later as and when research time permits.
SBW
PS how about adding a name to your comments, it makes it easier to differentiate between Annon's, like taking off your motorbike helmet or burka?
Dead is dead, be it literal and more important actual.
I fail to see have stuffing green vegetation in a dead beast gob helps conservation or hygiene in the slightest. The same goes for the puffing on horns or the muttering of incantations whilst one goes about the laying on of hands. Rapid evisceration followed by chilling to below 4 degrees whilst making sure your haven't contaminate the carcase with spilled body fluids or stomach content is the only things I know of that help with hygiene if the carcase is to be hung for any length of time. Prompt consumption having ensured that the meat has been cooked sufficiently in order to kill of any of the bugs that might be present also works at the other end of the time scale.
I belatedly acknowledge your request regarding differentiating commenters.
Atb
Wilf
Wilf
ReplyDeleteAs you'll no doubt have noticed I'm still interested in atavism you're still not interested in atavism.
My thinking on the subject is something new to me and therefore far to early to write about.
but thanks for stopping by
SBW
White-eye Wilf-you no got'em spirit know-how. You bin livin' whiteman city too long. Respect for spirit, not dead meat. No respect spirit, hunting not so good next time maybe. You get'm disease not respect'um spirit, too. You no believ'um spirit, you in for big heap suprise when you croak! Let hair grow out long, maybe good dream then come to you to teach you bout spirit medicine things.....L.B.
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ReplyDelete"As you'll no doubt have noticed I'm still interested in atavism you're still not interested in atavism."
Got it in one!
Never have been interested in atavism. I take enough pleasure out of using modern firearms to kill my quarry without the need to go muttering word to the great spirit, chucking spears at wooly mammoths or to make my own clothes out of stinging nettles in order to feel closer to nature and my ancestors.
Atb
Wilf
L.B.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of Jim Royle
"spirit medicine", my arse!
Atb
Wilf
Yes, Wilf, spirit medicine work for arse too. How your arse givin' you trubble? Mebbe I can suggest proper herbs. Mebbe you just need wipe better. Not wipe'um arse can affect temperment. Attract heap much flies, too. Plus, deer smell you comin' way far! Mebbe that why whiteman need'um far shootin' gun!......L.B.
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