Where do you think food comes from?

Molavian: Where do you think food comes from?

People?

Well the Japanese ducks that were smart enough not to fly to the Deep South will pass that trait on to their young and we shouldn't have this problem anymore after a few generations!

tdpatriots12: Well the Japanese ducks that were smart enough not to fly to the Deep South will pass that trait on to their young and we shouldn't have this problem anymore after a few generations!

Intelligent design FTW.

/wait. what?

It's just resting

Molavian: Where do you think food comes from?

From Japan, by air, silly!

/Free shipping, even!

I don't have a problem with hunting in general as long as the meat will be used and not just for trophies, but I've never gotten the point of duck hunting. I guess some people do it for meat, but it seems it's usually just to have a moving target and so you get to kill something. When something is easy to find in large flocks and you use a shotgun, that doesn't seem like real hunting. I've seen pictures of some people showing off dozens of ducks they killed in one hunt. What's the farking point of that? Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

meat. it's what's for dinner.

Northern pintail seasoned with a little rosemary is delicious!!
And just imagine, he didn't have to fly all the way to Japan to take one! Lucky bastard.

Bob Down: It's just resting

or probably pining for the fjords.

"More briefing?"

But did it carry a coconut?!

Necrosis Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

You don't walk around the woods to hunt deer.

Necrosis: I don't have a problem with hunting in general as long as the meat will be used and not just for trophies, but I've never gotten the point of duck hunting. I guess some people do it for meat, but it seems it's usually just to have a moving target and so you get to kill something. When something is easy to find in large flocks and you use a shotgun, that doesn't seem like real hunting. I've seen pictures of some people showing off dozens of ducks they killed in one hunt. What's the farking point of that? Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

The same reason they have seasons for just about anything. Population control.

And migrating fowl are not that easy to hunt. You have to attract them with decoys and calls while you're hanging out in the cold.

/Extremely obscure

Not sad, Subby, but very interesting. These banding programs are designed like this, if the hunter hadn't shot the duck how would we ever know it flew 6700 miles?

screw decoys, I demand control of my airspace...

But I do carry around a vial of mutated anthrax for duck hunting

/Card carrying member of the National Ray-Gun Association

Obviously I don't know much about hunting, but duck hunting still seems pretty lame...

/meh

Necrosis: Obviously I don't know much about hunting, but duck hunting still seems pretty lame...

/meh

Especially if someone gets the second controller and controls the duck.

billyboyxoxox: Northern pintail seasoned with a little rosemary is delicious!!

I came here to say something along those lines. Anyone got a pic from A Christmas Story?

/It´s looking at me

Necrosis: I don't have a problem with hunting in general as long as the meat will be used and not just for trophies, but I've never gotten the point of duck hunting. I guess some people do it for meat, but it seems it's usually just to have a moving target and so you get to kill something. When something is easy to find in large flocks and you use a shotgun, that doesn't seem like real hunting. I've seen pictures of some people showing off dozens of ducks they killed in one hunt. What's the farking point of that? Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

In taxidermy, you only use the skin, none of the meat.So you can still eat that.

From my experience, most people hunt eat the food (Unless of course there's something wrong with the animal physically.)If anything, most people look at it as a way to cut down on their meat bill for a few weeks.

Hunting is actually very hard and laborious and requires some great hand and eye coordination and extraordinary amount of patience.

And there reason why we do it, of course, is because man has screwed up the ecosystem a lot in the United States. Many natural predators are no longer their to keep the animals in check.

Anyone else read it as pinata?

kidsizedcoffin: Necrosis: Obviously I don't know much about hunting, but duck hunting still seems pretty lame...

/meh

Especially if someone gets the second controller and controls the duck.

WIN

what, me for dinner?

Unfortunately I'm on my Blackberry, so I can't post what I wanted to. It's a picture on www.despair.com showing a fish about to jump into a bears mouth with the phrase, "Sometimes a trip of a thousand miles ends really badly" someone wanna post it for me?

kidsizedcoffin: Necrosis: Obviously I don't know much about hunting, but duck hunting still seems pretty lame...

/meh

Especially if someone gets the second controller and controls the duck.

Here is your invoice...

Saitek Eclipse Keyboard x1
Can of Dr. Pepper x1

Due 2/27/08

Ah, the patience of a hunter. And just in time for dinner.

srtpointman: Unfortunately I'm on my Blackberry, so I can't post what I wanted to. It's a picture on www.despair.com showing a fish about to jump into a bears mouth with the phrase, "Sometimes a trip of a thousand miles ends really badly" someone wanna post it for me?



there you go.

Ducks are too cute to shoot. I think I could take some dinosaurs down without a regret though.

inkling79: Necrosis Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

You don't walk around the woods to hunt deer.

Then how do you get to your spot, honey?


/tee

If one hunts lame ducks the Secret Service gets testy.

The research center confirmed the duck was banded near Niigata, Japan, on Feb. 16, 2000.
It was estimated to be at least 8 years old.

Wonder just how many hours and tax dollars it took to come up with THAT one.... and, if the person that figured that out all by their lonesome got a party.

/with duck sauce

I got the title for a new country song: I shot a bird in Mississippi just to see it die!

TheMega, you just barely beat me to it. I was reading that and thinking "Hmmm, at least eight years old. I was gonna say pi. WTFDUH?"

It was estimated to be at least 8 years old.

And from Wikipedia: the average life span for wild birds ... is likely to be similar to that of other wild ducks, such as the Mallard, at about two years.

Eh, it had a good life.

Darth_Lukecash
And there reason why we do it, of course, is because man has screwed up the ecosystem a lot in the United States. Many natural predators are no longer their there to keep the animals in check.

You have to remember that man is a top of the food chain predator too. It's only on the last couple of hundred years that we came up with the concept of centralized processing of domesticated animals so everyone could get at a source of protein after moving into cities and not able to hunt, keep animals for personal slaughter, or needing to. Not so long ago you either successfully hunted or your family ate tree bark and acorn soup in the Winter or starved to death.

An old saying went something like this: One way for a species to survive is to taste bad.

SuperDuper28: The same reason they have seasons for just about anything. Population control.

And yet...we have no right to curb the out of control breeding of retarded rednecks who think Jesus rode to church on a dinosaur.

Darth_Lukecash: If anything, most people look at it as a way to cut down on their meat bill for a few weeks.

What? Meat bill? How big is your "meat bill", forty bucks?

Snall: But did it carry a coconut?!

No, there'd have to be two of them, carrying it on a line.

/They could use a strand of creeper

I tried to warn it to lower its head suddenly to avoid getting shot, but I couldn't figure out how.

Guns don't kill ducks,
People kill ducks.

God-dammed illegals! That will teach you not to mess with our immigration laws.

//

//Poor duck

Necrosis: I don't have a problem with hunting in general as long as the meat will be used and not just for trophies, but I've never gotten the point of duck hunting. I guess some people do it for meat, but it seems it's usually just to have a moving target and so you get to kill something. When something is easy to find in large flocks and you use a shotgun, that doesn't seem like real hunting. I've seen pictures of some people showing off dozens of ducks they killed in one hunt. What's the farking point of that? Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

I do both. I much prefer waterfowling. But never believe because you saw a pile of ducks after a hunt that waterfowling is easy. You hunt in some of the worst field conditions (wetlands or marsh), and waterfowl are some of the most wily animals out there. Average deer is 3-4, may have been shot at once. This bird was eight years old. The average snow goose is 11. These birds are shot at all their life. Everywhere they go, somebody takes a shot at them. By the way, that shotgun only shoots 30 yards effectively. You have to know how to call and decoy in the birds. Its not easy!

/Biologist
//waterfowler
///eats every bird I shoot and a few I didn't ;-)

The duck is banded, the duck is released, the duck goes where it wants, the duck dies, the band is recovered, the data is entered.
This is the purpose of the program.

Eight year old duck from Japan shot in Mississippi. No duck has ever been recorded flying that far and the average duck life span is 2 years. I wonder if someone gained posession of that tag, took it to the U.S., and played a practical joke by putting it on a duck in Mississippi. Not saying the hunter, he is an unsuspecting 3rd party in the scheme.

Just saying. If I had access to the tag and a duck I might do it too. Just think how you could fark with the scientists analyzing the data.

TheMega: The research center confirmed the duck was banded near Niigata, Japan, on Feb. 16, 2000.
It was estimated to be at least 8 years old.

Wonder just how many hours and tax dollars it took to come up with THAT one.... and, if the person that figured that out all by their lonesome got a party.

/with duck sauce

Depends on wether the person doing the math was in the U.S or Japan.

Necrosis: I don't have a problem with hunting in general as long as the meat will be used and not just for trophies, but I've never gotten the point of duck hunting. I guess some people do it for meat, but it seems it's usually just to have a moving target and so you get to kill something. When something is easy to find in large flocks and you use a shotgun, that doesn't seem like real hunting. I've seen pictures of some people showing off dozens of ducks they killed in one hunt. What's the farking point of that? Too lazy to walk around the woods for a deer?

In my freezer, I have several pounds of the following game meat:

Venison
Elk
Pheasant
Grouse
Turkey
Walleye

That's what I eat. I also have beef, but it's from a local butcher - same guy that processes my big game.

Anyway, I don't have a single animal carcass in my house as a trophy. I've never shot anything I didn't eat. I don't like to have deer meat every single day, so I hunt more than just deer.

Now, I don't personally like duck, so I don't hunt it. Same with goose, but a lot of people in my neck of the woods do like it. When I hunt for pheasant and grouse, however, I always bag my limit. Limits are put into place to protect the population, and I abide by them. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to kill as many as I can, because I always run out before the next season starts. And pheasant and grouse taste much, much better than antibiotic stuffed Tyson chickens from the grocery store. Last reason? I've seen the processing area that my butcher uses when he does my deer and elk. I'd let someone perform open heart surgery on me in there - it's so clean. So I'm about 99% sure that I'm never, ever going to have a meat recall for anything in my freezer...

I shoot Japanese ducks all the time.

Was it from the WASHington BIOLogical SURVEy?