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In a message dated 12/18/2002 12:08:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:


> At thirteen-nearly-fourteen, if he had grown up in the house I grew up in,
> he
> would have a real gun by now, and been hunting. If he really had an
> interest, he could be going target shooting now with friends of ours who
> go.
> He's never even asked to see the one rifle we do own, which we inherited
> from
> a buckskinner friend of ours who hunted and trapped in Colorado and Alaska,
> and died on an icy night. His name was Marty. That's why Marty's named
> Marty. Still, our Marty at an age to use real guns has no interest, and
> will not be happily amused to get toy guns for Christmas.

Eric loves the toy guns, but he also loves to hunt. He and dh went last year.
Eric shot a squirrel. He skinned it, removed the meat, pan-fried it, and ate
it. We got information from the Foxfire books about skin preservation.
Unfortunately we used too much salt and alum. Eric has a rock-hard squirrel
hide on his bedroom wall with a sign "my first squrel".

I couldn't personally kill an animal unless I depended on it for sustenance,
but Eric and dh love to hunt. The positive is they use (eat/hide) anything
they get. Plus in twenty years of knowing my dh, he's only brought home one
deer. I think he just goes to walk in the woods. He tells all sorts of
stories about what got away.

Ginny


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In a message dated 12/19/02 8:06:06 AM, GDobes@... writes:

<< Still, our Marty at an age to use real guns has no interest, and
> will not be happily amused to get toy guns for Christmas.
>>

Did I say NOT~!?? I think I revised the sentence and left detritus. VERY
SORRY!

He WILL (positively) be very happily amused to get toy guns.

I accidently wrote nonsense. Sorry.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

> I couldn't personally kill an animal unless I depended on it for
sustenance,
> but Eric and dh love to hunt. The positive is they use (eat/hide) anything
> they get. Plus in twenty years of knowing my dh, he's only brought home
one
> deer. I think he just goes to walk in the woods. He tells all sorts of
> stories about what got away.

My husband grew up hunting for food and still does when he can find the
time. He also just likes walking in the bush, even though he works there as
well. But the best thing he ever brought home was a happy surprise. He saw
antlers and started circling around to where he'd be able to see the animal.
When he finally got there, it turned out to be just a skull with the antlers
intact, a cougar kill probably. He brought it home, and after looking at it
for several years, I finally made an awesome basket around it, using the
antlers to form the bowl shape and leaving the forked part sticking up.
Tia