Hunting Sense

I know that all vegetarians aren’t automatically against hunting or for PETA type animal rights, but a large majority are. How often do you go to a site dedicated to their lifestyle and find a link to ‘animal rights’ or ‘PETA’? A lot, as is the case with Living Without Meat.

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I was Googling hunting news this morning in hopes of finding an idea for a post, and I came across an article about changes to Alberta’s subsistence hunting license. Basically, it’s a hunting license issued to anyone in the province that relies upon moose, elk, or deer meat to feed them and their families and can be used anytime during the year. It got me to thinking.

Would the creation of a subsistence hunting license elsewhere help curb the cases of out-of-season poaching? Granted, some poaching isn’t for the meat to feed the poacher and their families. For those people poaching as a means to feed their families, though, it would provide a legal way for them to do so.

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Ok, so this recipe has very little to do with hunting, unless you count hunting for apples, or it being a treat to take on a hunting trip, or…I don’t know how else. I do have a recipe section though, one that has been neglected quite a bit. And, this is one of my favorite cakes my Grandma used to make.

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Like I mentioned in this post, I’m from Oklahoma, where you’re more likely to get ice than snow. If you live anywhere in North America, since I’m in Canada and have, you’ve likely seen on the news that I wasn’t lying about that. If the name wasn’t already taken, Oklahoma would be better known for the moment as Iceland.

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Wouldn’t it be so much easier to shoot your line out into the water than having to cast it? Well, that is exactly what you can do with the Rocket Fishing Rod, pictured above. Now you can fish almost exactly like you hunt!

I saw a commercial for it while watching fishing shows with my oldest son over the weekend. While I definitely don’t see it being something for the entire family, I do see the benefit of it for the primary target user…the kids. In fact, being so close to Christmas, and knowing the kids want some fishing gear under the tree, I’m seriously considering this for all three of them.

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One of the earliest types of hunting I got to do when I was young was squirrel hunting. In fact, a squirrel was the first animal I ever shot, if memory serves me right. It’s an excellent animal to break in new hunters on, since they are rather plentiful in most areas, and for the most part, not as hard to hunt as other small game.

Being from Oklahoma, I’m more use to seeing gray and fox squirrels. Here in Canada, the vast majority of squirrels I see are black squirrels, which was a rarity back home. I tease my wife, though, and tell her no matter the color, they still look tasty.

See, she finds it a bit strange that I eat squirrels. To be honest, when cleaning them and seeing how much they look like a rat when the skin is off, I find it a bit weird too. I guess for her it is a bit like rednecks and roadkill…it just doesn’t seem right to eat them. But damn are they ever tasty. Oops, I already mentioned that.

It takes a few of them to make a good meal for a family, but well worth it. Especially when you fry them up and serve them with mashed potatoes, gravy, and biscuits. Some really good eating. Come to think of it, I don’t think I have ever had them any other way except for a couple of times that we had them baked.

For those of you who may not know, here is a simple way to fry up a squirrel.

Cut the squirrel up, let it soak in salt water over night. Remove from the salt water, dip it in either milk or cream, roll in flour, and toss it in a skillet with plenty of oil to mostly cover it. Let it cook until golden brown, flip it and repeat the process. Simple, isn’t it? And hard to beat.

I have a few other recipes that can be here if you’re interested in them.

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The pendulum of political correctness is in constant motion and you never know where a word or phrase is going to fall on its varying arc of acceptability.

For years I’ve referred to the killing of deer as harvesting when talking to certain people. It isn’t a term I generally use when talking to close friends or other hunters. On the contrary, it is when talking to those people who I don’t know if they hunt or even what their feelings on hunting may be that I use the word harvest. Otherwise, I say kill or killed.

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Most modern hunters deny that their embrace of technology has eroded sportsmanship and hunting skills. Curiously, they still see themselves as old-fashioned woodsmen, intimate with their prey and with the outdoors.

But I have the strong suspicion that if one were to ask a high-tech hunter if he had the slightest notion how to track and stalk a whitetail buck, he would slink away in embarrassment.

I read the above statements in an article I found this morning. Nothing like reading others opinions to get the old brain to working, is there? It definitely got me to thinking about how true this is.

Hunting, in it’s simplest form, is something that requires nothing more than skill and a basic understanding of your prey to be successful. In today’s world, it is quickly becoming something that requires a lot of equipment and very little skill. If anything, all that is required is a little bit of luck.

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