Hunter shoots snorkeler

miller8966

Rushlimbo wrote:

LOL, how appropriate. Glad you could make it then. Nothing ignorant would be worthwhile without the Miller boy !

someone had to make your thread interesting

tybird

Smellyman wrote:

The are everywhere in Oregon and Washington. They cause a lot of problems burring holes in the diking systems that surround many cities. They have government trappers who trap them to thin them out. Never heard of your average Joe being able to hunt them.

Southern states that have a population operate a "no bag limit" and year round season on the buggers. One still has to have a state-issued hunting license, but one can kill as many as one wishes. I have seen them in places further south in Alabama.

The state of Alabama has also issued a "no bag limit" and "year-round open season" on Eurasian Collared Doves, an invasive species of bird that apparently made its way here from the Bahamas.

Scubascott

Does this kind of thing happen a lot in the States? I've heard about quite a few shooting accidents in america, but I can't think of any here, and I know a lot of people who go shooting pretty regularly. I'm sure there is the occasional accident, but we don't hear about it. Maybe the media just doesn't care here.

evenflow82

I laughed my ass off when I read that article.

tybird

Scubascott wrote:

Does this kind of thing happen a lot in the States? I've heard about quite a few shooting accidents in america, but I can't think of any here, and I know a lot of people who go shooting pretty regularly. I'm sure there is the occasional accident, but we don't hear about it. Maybe the media just doesn't care here.

Someone getting shot while snorkeling is very rare.........get shot by another hunter while one is hunting happens a good bit. Innocent bystanders often get hit by bullets on holidays like the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve by numbskulls who fire pistols straight up in the air to celebrate the holiday.

miller8966

Hunting is a great american tradition

Cosmo

How big do they grow them rodents up there in Oregon?
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Or should I ask, how small do they grow them snorkelers up there in Oregon?

Cosmo

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

maybe that METH had something to do with it :rolleyes:

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Not very good Meth... the guys scored a head shot. Unless, he was close... like, execution style... range. But, is that how you hunt Nutrinias? Execution style? Not, very sporting... if you ask me.

callen

western pearl wrote:

Lol, another anti-hunting thread. An article about a screwed up old man (probably insanely high) shooting a person gets turned into an anti-NRA thread. Way to distort the truth.

yea the guy had other issues....but...my thought about guns is this....people love their guns...they're really cool...highly machined...cost a pretty penny...gonna just let it sit on the shelf collecting dust??? Hell no......lets go out and shoot something....power, adrenalin......bam...snorker's shot....neighbors kid is accidentally shot....goes on and on. Lets shoot it in the air on New Years.......guns don't shoot people.....lame brain Americans with guns shoot people..hence they need to give them up. (-:

miller8966

callen wrote:

yea the guy had other issues....but...my thought about guns is this....people love their guns...they're really cool...highly machined...cost a pretty penny...gonna just let it sit on the shelf collecting dust??? Hell no......lets go out and shoot something....power, adrenalin......bam...snorker's shot....neighbors kid is accidentally shot....goes on and on. Lets shoot it in the air on New Years.......guns don't shoot people.....lame brain Americans with guns shoot people..hence they need to give them up. (-:

Wow great generalization.

Women has abortion...wants to kill more...goes to day care...starts killing babies.

floyd1975

callen wrote:

yea the guy had other issues....but...my thought about guns is this....people love their guns...they're really cool...highly machined...cost a pretty penny...gonna just let it sit on the shelf collecting dust??? Hell no......lets go out and shoot something....power, adrenalin......bam...snorker's shot....neighbors kid is accidentally shot....goes on and on. Lets shoot it in the air on New Years.......guns don't shoot people.....lame brain Americans with guns shoot people..hence they need to give them up. (-:

I would hate to see what you think of the guy who buys a hammer and runs out of nails.

callen

miller8966 wrote:

Hunting is a great american tradition

so was slavery and discrimination and driving gas hoggin SUV"s and trucks

Pearl Jam and toast

I'm an extreme liberal and a vegetarian for several years, but I'm still not against hunting... I'll never want to do it myself and I think it's disgusting, but it's nessecary. For example... the EXPLODING deer population in the USA.. .without hunters helping to balance it out deer would overload their habitat and all of them would starve.

tybird

Cosmo wrote:

How big do they grow them rodents up there in Oregon?
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Or should I ask, how small do they grow them snorkelers up there in Oregon?

Nutria grow up to 25 inches in length and weigh up to 22 pounds. They are native to South America, but were imported to the U.S. They are very common in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. It appears that they also have made a home in the Northwest U.S.

Cosmo

tybird wrote:

Nutria grow up to 25 inches in length and weigh up to 22 pounds. They are native to South America, but were imported to the U.S. They are very common in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. It appears that they also have made a home in the Northwest U.S.

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That's BIG for a fricken' rodent... still, you have to be on Meth to confuse one of them with a human in snorkel gear... oh.. wait...
nevermind.

tybird

Cosmo wrote:

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That's BIG for a fricken' rodent... still, you have to be on Meth to confuse one of them with a human in snorkel gear... oh.. wait...
nevermind.

Yeah.......it's like the second or third largest rodent behind the Capybara, which grows up to a shade under five feet in length and about 174 pounds.

Cosmo

tybird wrote:

Yeah.......it's like the second or third largest rodent behind the Capybara, which grows up to a shade under five feet in length and about 174 pounds.

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Man... I got this little hamster in a cage... I can't even imagine the size of the fricken' exercise wheel I have to buy for one of them dudes.

tybird

Cosmo wrote:

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Man... I got this little hamster in a cage... I can't even imagine the size of the fricken' exercise wheel I have to buy for one of them dudes.

or the litter box you would need???? :rolleyes:

miller8966

callen wrote:

so was slavery and discrimination and driving gas hoggin SUV"s and trucks

I still drive a gas hoggin truck

Scubascott

tybird wrote:

Innocent bystanders often get hit by bullets on holidays like the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve by numbskulls who fire pistols straight up in the air to celebrate the holiday.

I've often wondered about that too. Especially in places like the middle east where any kind celebration is a good reason to fire hundreds of rounds into the air. Newton says that those bullets will come down at the same speed at which they went up. . . .