Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

Sickening, but somehow I see it as being typical of that area of Mass.

 I had a similar experience many years ago. Fortunately it happened in NH as 
I was on my way to a target match so I was able to dispatch the deer with a 
30-06.

 If it'd have happened in Mass, I'd have probably ended up going to jail for 
ending the poor creatures misery.

  Corky

    FLAME ALMOST ON                                                  
    
    Come on now people. Let us not rag on MA because of a dying deer.
    The police were only doing their job. If you want to rag a little
    why not rag on NH. I seem to recall driving down main street N.
    Conway with a deer on the roof of my car and having people throwing
    me the finger and putting their hands over the mouth and pointing
    at the poor butchered deer. Anti hunting -  animal killing
    sentiments are everwhere. Not just MA.............
                   
    SJN

    
    
     hell..i'm not ragging on the cop..i agree, he was doing his job..its
    just a shame he couldn't have shot the thing right then and there
    instead of having to wait until someone gave him permission to do it.
     its was just a sad sight to see the thing trying to pull itself away
    by its front legs and there wasn't anything we could do to put it out
    of its misery.

>Let us not rag on MA because of a dying deer.
>    The police were only doing their job. If you want to rag a little
>    why not rag on NH.

 The "ragging" is on the political climate which makes it impossible to do the 
right thing. It was not the cop's fault for following his orders. It was the
person who gave the orders' fault. And as for "why not rag on NH?" the answer
is quite simple. The people who gave you the finger in NH did so because they
have been ineffective at changing the political climate to the point where one
cannot dispatch a mortally wounded and suffering deer. So they exercised their
right to free speech. BFD. They are the ones with the problem. At least you
can do the right thing in NH...

 The Doctah

RE: .2

 Nobodys "ragging on MA". As the Doctah said, it's the political climate that 
is being ragged on. 

 As for having people in N Conway flipping you the bird, I'd be willing to 
bet that 99 % of them are Mass transplants OR yuppie tourists from Mass... 


 Corky

    In regards to mass transplants or yuppie tourists from mass...  I
    resent that implication in all manner of things...  I thought we were
    above making ignorant blanket statements such as that.
    
    fra

    I 2nd that last message!....and thank you .6

    
    Are we tunnel visioned that we can't take some kidding, I saw it has
    humorous, well be raised with a last name that ends in ...ski, I
    learned to always find the humor in remarks.  
    
    There was one thing I did notice at Logan.  When I walked into the
    airport with a cased rifle, they gave me cleared berth.  Came into ATL
    and they'd ask me what I was packing. guess its just a slight cultural
    diffences between MA and America.
    
    Cheers
    Leonard
     

 Let me get this straight! The cop was getting someone elses permission!!!
Who's this someone else? A trained expert hired by the State who decides on the 
legal, moral, and political ramifications of doing the right thing? Is he around
to help the police make a split second call when they use their gun for defense
or arrest. Were only talking human lives here, sorry I forgot myself.

    
    They operate like used car salesmen.  The one making the sale
    can NEVER ok the final price. He has to take off and see the 
    owner/mgr/chief crook.  This way those around him don't hit too
    hard.
    
    If it happened on a back road with no traffic in sight, you can
    bet the castle there wouldn't be any "permission" needed.  
    BANG!  In the trunk on plastic, and on the table next week.
    
    Fred

But why a week to put it on the table?

    needs to age a bit maybe??  I agree, anywhere else and it would
    have been a done deal.
    
    Erik

    I have just started to read this conference and it surprises me to
    find out that there is such a dis like for hunter in the Massachuses
    area. I am from Albuquerque N.M and I saw the same situation only
    with an elk, a state trooper pulled over and put him out of his
    misery. I hope we don't get any animal rites people like that over
    here. I don't know about the rest of you guys but if it wasn't for our 
    hunting dollars here in New Mexico I don't think that we would have very
    many deer, elk or other game you name it we have almost everything
    commen to North America except for moose.

    re .13 I think this was a local cop, probably never had to deal with
    the situation before. Maybe the chief doesn't particularly encourage
    his officers to take initiative. Maybe the chief has had problems
    with anti-hunters from having put an animal away in a previous
    incident. 
    
    Mass. _is_ an ultra-liberal place, but there are still a lot of
    good 'ol boys and girls who like to hunt and fish, who like guns,
    the outdoors, camping, who understand about life and death in the 
    wild. Who know what the right thing to do is in a situation 
    like this. It's just that the ignorant have a _lot_ of pull in this
    state.

    I understand that the north is full of ignorant narrowminded commie
    pinkos.  Is that true?  I know that down here in Georgia, it's just 
    good ole boys and a couple rednecks.  Don't worry though, the season
    for rednecks and narrow minded ignorant individuals is coming up next
    month.  And guess what, no limit!
    
    Bob
    

    
    Well, it's "next month", and where's rharris?  Hidin' downstairs!
    
    Fr.