Today the mailman handed me a very colorful flyer: heavy professional quality. At the top there are antlers and this: WILD GAME SUPPER. Below that there's a hunter, with rifle over shoulder, baseball cap, ammo belt, silhouetted against the sunrise or sunset -- and this:
XXXXXXXX BAPTIST CHURCH
xxxxxx VA
EXHIBITS & COMPETITION - 1:00 PM
SUPPER: 4:00 PM
On the back, this:
"Please bring your wild game meat dish
and other potato or vegetable dish.
Beverages and desserts are provided.
NRA Sponsored Shooting Competition
@ 1:00 pm (Kids to 15 yrs old)
Archery contest @ 1:00 PM (16 yrs old+)
(Bring your own bow)
Exhibits open at 1:00 PM
Supper begins at 4:00 PM
BIG BUCK CONTEST
Bring your Virginia check tag
and this seasons horns with
you to the supper to be
scored. The top 2 racks will
receive awards.
DOOR PRIZES:
.50 Caliber Muzzleloaders
Ouitdoor Turkey Fryer
Portable Tree Stand
Bushnell Scope
Quantum Rod & Reel
& much, much more.
Door prizes donated by
B&B Archery
Dawson's
Hanger Enterprise
Clark Brothers
FH Furr
Mega Rentals
Virginia Arms
NRA
Loudon Guns
Interstate Battery
Walmart Stores
Dicks (2 locations)
(Addresses & phone nunbers)
-- and at the bottom --
HOSTED AT xxxxxxxx BAPTIST CHURCH
SATURDAY, JAN 19, 2013
EXHIBITS & COMPETITION - 1:00 PM
SUPPER - 4:00 PM
(Address of church, phone number, internet address)
Libby (let us pray ... er, uh, maybe they'll say grace at dinner? :spooked: )
Kill some shit in the name of geebuz!
Quote from: Exterminator on January 17, 2013, 07:37:16 PM
Kill some shit in the name of geebuz!
Are you a vegetarian?
I gather you don't hunt or fish?
Quote from: me on January 17, 2013, 08:15:27 PM
Are you a vegetarian?
No but I hunt for meat at Costco. Hunters don't hunt because they need food; they hunt because they have little dicks and it makes them feel like men to kill something. If I am going to hunt, it'll be for people; it's infinitely more satisfying and profitable.
Ah, why does your answer now surprise me. Can't you post anything without juvenile name calling?
Quote from: Exterminator on January 17, 2013, 08:24:45 PM
No but I hunt for meat at Costco. Hunters don't hunt because they need food; they hunt because they have little dicks and it makes them feel like men to kill something. If I am going to hunt, it'll be for people; it's infinitely more satisfying and profitable.
Good luck to ya if things get bad. Guess you'll be starvin' or beggin' some of those "little dick" people for food.
Quote from: Anne on January 17, 2013, 08:27:29 PM
Ah, why does your answer now surprise me. Can't you post anything without juvenile name calling?
Aw...did I offend your redneck sensibilities? Here's a clue: I don't care; I'm tired of suffering the opinions of fools and idiots.
Quote from: me on January 17, 2013, 08:54:51 PM
Good luck to ya if things get bad. Guess you'll be starvin' or beggin' some of those "little dick" people for food.
WTF? I thought things were already bad. Isn't that what you've been harping on about for months? How long do you think you'll last if things get really bad?
Quote from: Exterminator on January 17, 2013, 09:16:32 PM
WTF? I thought things were already bad. Isn't that what you've been harping on about for months? How long do you think you'll last if things get really bad?
Well lets put it this way, I can go out in the yard and find edible plants and know how to prepare and cook them, I can also cut up a rabbit, deer, or other game animal to cook and know how to preserve for later use. I know how to cook on an open fire and have tons of cast iron I can use to do it with. I cook from scratch not from a box or jar.
Quote from: me on January 17, 2013, 09:34:11 PM
Well lets put it this way, I can go out in the yard and find edible plants and know how to prepare and cook them, I can also cut up a rabbit, deer, or other game animal to cook and know how to preserve for later use. I know how to cook on an open fire and have tons of cast iron I can use to do it with. I cook from scratch not from a box or jar.
Hopefully you're a lot better at that than you are at understanding virtually anything about the world outside of your yard. And FYI...I grow and can plenty of my own food...I currently have 8 4'x8' raised beds that I pull food out of from late March until at least the end of November...usually later for my brussel sprouts and late greens. As a last resort if it gets really ugly, I can just take your food! LOL...
Quote from: Exterminator on January 17, 2013, 09:44:06 PM
Hopefully you're a lot better at that than you are at understanding virtually anything about the world outside of your yard. And FYI...I grow and can plenty of my own food...I currently have 8 4'x8' raised beds that I pull food out of from late March until at least the end of November...usually later for my brussel sprouts and late greens. As a last resort if it gets really ugly, I can just take your food! LOL...
I don't think so. If you want meat kill and process your own.
If there was ever a case to be made for gun control, this is surely it. :yes: :big grin:
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:rotfl:
Quote from: me on January 17, 2013, 09:52:57 PM
I don't think so. If you want meat kill and process your own.
I won't be asking permission.
Doesn't it always seem to be that way?
Shooting and church.
Around here the game dinners are always held in the church of god or the baptist church.
(No room at the catholic church -- gambling going on, ya know.)
:biggrin: :biggrin:
Quote from: Exterminator on January 18, 2013, 09:09:51 AM
I won't be asking permission.
Then I wouldn't be drinking any water afterward 'cause ya might be leakin' just a tad. :wink:
Quote from: followsthewolf on January 18, 2013, 09:23:58 AM
Doesn't it always seem to be that way?
Shooting and church.
Around here the game dinners are always held in the church of god or the baptist church.
(No room at the catholic church -- gambling going on, ya know.)
:biggrin: :biggrin:
They've gotta make money some way ya know. And, after all, they can go to confession the next day and beg forgiveness for their sins and all will be right with the world once again. :wink:
Quote from: followsthewolf on January 18, 2013, 09:23:58 AM
Doesn't it always seem to be that way?
Shooting and church.
Around here the game dinners are always held in the church of god or the baptist church.
(No room at the catholic church -- gambling going on, ya know.)
:biggrin: :biggrin:
:yes: :big grin:
Quote from: me on January 18, 2013, 09:33:54 AM
Then I wouldn't be drinking any water afterward 'cause ya might be leakin' just a tad. :wink:
LMAO! Aw, that's hysterical in a naive sort of way! So you think that the people who have experience with sitting in a tree-stand waiting for some unsuspecting deer to walk up so they can shoot it will have an edge over the people with tactical training? How would you avoid getting picked off by someone concealed in a tree-line several hundred yards away when you go outside to gather your 'edible plants'? People are completely delusional about their probability for survival in a worse-case-scenario event despite whether or not they may have guns.
Quote from: Exterminator on January 18, 2013, 11:09:54 AM
LMAO! Aw, that's hysterical in a naive sort of way! So you think that the people who have experience with sitting in a tree-stand waiting for some unsuspecting deer to walk up so they can shoot it will have an edge over the people with tactical training? How would you avoid getting picked off by someone concealed in a tree-line several hundred yards away when you go outside to gather your 'edible plants'? People are completely delusional about their probability for survival in a worse-case-scenario event despite whether or not they may have guns.
That's where teamwork comes in fool.
Quote from: me on January 18, 2013, 11:23:37 AM
That's where teamwork comes in fool.
Yeh, I'm the fool...because you think you can, not only spot but engage a sniper who has the benefit of cover and concealment from several hunderd yards away. Like I said, you're delusional...your entire team could be taken out before you even have the opportunity to figure out the direction from which the bullets are coming. It happens all of the time in combat...not sure why you think you'd fare better with no training.
Great ideal ! This is a good way to have real families come together and have fun.
Quote from: Exterminator on January 18, 2013, 11:30:33 AM
Yeh, I'm the fool...because you think you can, not only spot but engage a sniper who has the benefit of cover and concealment from several hunderd yards away. Like I said, you're delusional...your entire team could be taken out before you even have the opportunity to figure out the direction from which the bullets are coming. It happens all of the time in combat...not sure why you think you'd fare better with no training.
Uh, and once again you have an overrated opinion of yourself and think no one is as good or as knowledgeable as you. Yer gonna have to quit stayin' at Holiday Inn's that's only an ad.
Quote from: RC on January 18, 2013, 11:31:00 AM
Great ideal ! This is a good way to have real families come together and have fun.
:biggrin:
Quote from: me on January 18, 2013, 11:35:30 AM
Uh, and once again you have an overrated opinion of yourself and think no one is as good or as knowledgeable as you. Yer gonna have to quit stayin' at Holiday Inn's that's only an ad.
Really, grandma? You'd better hope it never comes to that because you won't last 72 hours. What a delusional idiot.
My father always had a gun, and he was a hunter -- went once a year on a deer-huntin' trip in Pocahontas County with his brothers. Never did bring a deer home, though. And my mother knew how to use a gun. When I was very young, I stood beside her one dark night as she poked the shotgun out the window and pulled the trigger. (Daddy sometimes worked at night, and she heard somebody moving around outside the window.)The next day, the local doctor told daddy that he treated somebody "who got shot in the leg last night, but the fellow didn't know who did it."
But guns and church? :spooked: No way. Oxymoron. And if all other arguments fail, what in the world would Miss Manners think?
As I've said before; I got mine a long time ago. Training and weapons. And yet despite that I may not last much longer than some, but longer than most in any case.
I can hunt, I can fish, I can grow food, and when I cannot I can take them when necessary. Until I cannot, at which point I will perish.
And while I can see the validation for increased gun control, I STILL believe it to be nothing more than a band-aid that will do nothing to stem the slaughter. Increased access to mental health care and health care in general is a better step in my mind. But hey, I don't make six figures for a 90 day a year job, or have major corporations paying me under the table either. . .
Quote from: libby on January 18, 2013, 11:54:01 AM
. . .
But guns and church? :spooked: No way. Oxymoron. . .
Humankind has been killin' fer Jeebus for centuries. No reason to change that! :rolleyes: :spooked:
Quote from: Palehorse on January 18, 2013, 11:58:48 AM
As I've said before; I got mine a long time ago. Training and weapons. And yet despite that I may not last much longer than some, but longer than most in any case.
I can hunt, I can fish, I can grow food, and when I cannot I can take them when necessary. Until I cannot, at which point I will perish.
And while I can see the validation for increased gun control, I STILL believe it to be nothing more than a band-aid that will do nothing to stem the slaughter. Increased access to mental health care and health care in general is a better step in my mind. But hey, I don't make six figures for a 90 day a year job, or have major corporations paying me under the table either. . .
Humankind has been killin' fer Jeebus for centuries. No reason to change that! :rolleyes: :spooked:
I'd bet money on you for sure. :yes: