Coping: With Hunting Season
It’s barely thinking about becoming daylight as I write this - but in a few minutes…no, there goes a shot now - the deer hunting season opens in this part of East Texas. This is when a lot of families supplement their annual food budget with venison that can be either a) the cheapest meat in the freezer or b) the most expensive. It all depends on how good a hunter you area and whether you invest in the latest high tech tools along the way.
Although we’ve got a fair little collection of long and sidearms, most of their purpose is to deal with the nasties that come wandering through the property. Nothing worse than wild pigs. They can do more damage to land than a drunk city slicker on a Caterpillar D-3…they are plain terrible.
Snakes, too, although the local copperhead population seems to have thinned out a bit since I’ve beaten the brush back a fair ways from the house. Even the scorpion count is down this year - something Elaine’s quite thankful about.
Wonder why the local volunteer fire department has it’s fall BBQ next weekend instead of this weekend? Not only would hardly anyone show up because of deer season, but I expect most of the department wouldn’t be available for BBQ’ing - they’d be off in the woods, too.
As I’ve said before, although I’ve the skills to do it, going hunting seems a lot less sure than running in to the grocery store. No messing about with field dressing, finding someone to cut and wrap and all that. Nossir, just a few pieces of paper and you’re done in no time. When the stores in town run out of chicken, I’ll think about hun6ting more than hogs and snakes, but turning vegetarian might be a time-saver option worth considering.
Oh! There went another shot off in the distance. Most important thing about now till the end of the year is remembering to wear the orange vest and hat out in the woods
I have to give credit to Texas Parks and Wildlife. The latest statistics I could come up with (it’s early) showed the accident rate was still below 3 accidents per 10,000 hunters. And just for the record there were only 4 fatalities in 2007.
The reason I mention this is really two-fold. First, hunter education is really paying off. The studies show that most accidents involve some kind of violation of law - and usually ignoring some of basics of safe hunting. Often times, alcohol is involved - and the riskiest time is around dusk, not early mornings when people are still sharp.
The second reason is to point out something that folks who are down on gun ownership don’t talk about very much because it would weaken their argument to throw out the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms: The number of boating fatalities is on track to exceed 30 this year. As of June 18th - latest press release I could come up with, 18 people had already died in boating accidents this year in Texas.
No, I’m not saying that hunting is safer than boating. About 4-8 hunters per year die here out of the more than 1-million who go hunting. If I could find a reliable statistic on the number of people who actually went boating we could do a meaningful comparison. But, alas, registrations won’
t work simply because so many of our neighbors out here have registered bass boats and such, but never seem to have time to use them.
Good thing, too, otherwise there’s be no bass anywhere in America - they’d all be fished out by now.
The conclusion I can arrive at fairly safely is that there are idiots in the woods and there are idiots on the water, and on the freeway, too.
Another thing that do-good/gun seizers don’t think through: As states have gotten better at managing deer seasons - the number of deer/car accidents is going up. In fact here’s a note from a couple of months back that says car-deer accidents are up by 18% in the past five years in some areas.
Maybe hunting isn’t such a bad thing…or maybe cars are.
Saturday Morning Email Festival
Here’s one for you:
“Hey george, This is a really friggin’ weird one . I had a dream I was being attacked by some very evil people (I don’t know why).They had me pinned and I started screaming “I am Hu!” as though that would be the only way to protect myself . I woke up my wife because I was actually saying this outloud while having this nightmare . She woke me up and told me I was having a bad dream . I remembered that I was saying ” I am HU .”
First let me make this as clear as possible, I have never heard of HU. So I was very curious to know why the hell I was screaming it at 2:00AM? in the morning . I look it up on the internet . I come across a lot of different things, harold Klemp, lemuria, mt shasta . Anyway seems I have been put onto a new spiritual path in one night . I Feel like I am going nuts .
3 or 4 weeks ago I had another dream with a Hindu Goddess apparently (I know nothing about hinduism) .I had injured my eye hunting for cepes( I wish it was another mushrrom which would help explain a lot). A lady with two baby tigers was watching over me in a very posh room .Had no Idea who she was until I googled it . That was a big surprise.
I just wish someone would tell me what the hell is going on, I have a monkey brain and this stuff is a little beyond me and my Normal experiences and dreams. Something on the lines of, this is what is going on and this is what you need to do would be real helpful right about now .I get the feeling this is BIG. So here I am, doing what I do normally, waiting for the “call” and some clarification . Until then it just seems well …insane right now .This is really a “trip” for me especially since I haven’t taken anything that might help induce these types of “dream/visions”. “
Assuming you haven’t been elected to high office in China in recent dreams, I’d say you’ve either got to swear off - or at least change brands.
Because if neither one of those works, then it’s another tiny indicator that as we move closer to 2012, the veil or boundary layer between our reality and another one next door might be getting thinner. Go read Haunted Mesa by Louis L’ Amour and you’ll get the drift.
Next email, please?
“Instead of using your term, the “dead cat bounce”, why don’t you change it to “dead baby bounce.” ?? That way, those who love cats will get a break from the insensitive phrase, and then you can see what kind of reaction you get from others about using “dead baby bounce”…..
Re: the media or gov’t reporting how the economy is getting “better”, yet unemployment is still RISING….. well, it makes about as much sense as the news anchors and the news writers, who, after an event such as the Ft Hood shooting, go on and on saying , “but what was his motive ?”, or, as a headline in the Houston Chronicle today said, “Motive is still unknown”. My God, how obvious can anything BE what his “motive” was: his “motive” was to STRIKE OUT at people because he was MAD about being forced to go to Iraq or wherever. EVERY time some crazed being kills a bunch of people, the damned idiots in media come up with their stupid question of “But what was his MOTIVE???” How dumb can they all BE? Very dumb, is the answer. Like, his motive was to kill a bunch of people so that he’d get a promotion instead of being sent overseas? (but no prison time, of course). They bring up that motive question every time , as if it hasn’t occurred to them that obviously, this or that person went off their rockers, OR they were sociopaths or psychopaths. Too unreal to keep hearing/reading the media dolts asking that question about “motive”….
Ah! Fine point on ‘dead cat bounce’ - Zeus my cat and I go around and around on this one all the time. He’s expressed a preference for “dead politician bounce” but I explained to him that would likely get a visit from Homeland Security. Then I went through a list of other possible ‘bouncers’ and just hadn’t put brain cells on the task until this morning.
The two cells that remain undamaged - but the weekend is young - will try to remember to use something less commonly loved than cats. Salamanders, skinks, and snakes come to mind.
Can’t help you much on the issues in the second paragraph, sorry to say. Journalism schools seem to attract students that didn’t have the GPA for Med School or the math skills for Engineering. What can I say?
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