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View Poll Results: Which Choice Best Describes Your Views on Hunting?
It is a Texas tradition and I fully support hunting rights 30 34.48%
I don't believe in hunting at all; it is a cruel activity. It should be outlawed. 2 2.30%
I don't hunt, but have no personal problem with legalized hunting 36 41.38%
I have mixed feelings on it (please explain if desired) 4 4.60%
Hunting may have been justified at one time, but is no longer necessary and should be outlawed/severely restricted 8 9.20%
No opinion/Don't care 5 5.75%
Other (please describe/explain) 2 2.30%
Voters: 87. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-23-2013, 01:25 PM
 
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Looks downright tasty....I, who am starving, have no food to speak of in the house, and am in the middle of packing up the kitchen......MEANIE!!!

It is also pouring, driving rain outside, so I won't go get anything....

Reminds me of when we moved from New Orleans back to Texas.

Don't hurt your back.
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Old 09-23-2013, 07:35 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Don't care. If you want to hunt, then hunt. Just don't get too trigger happy near my neighborhood. I don't want to become a statistic. LOL
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Old 09-23-2013, 08:02 PM
 
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Don't care. If you want to hunt, then hunt. Just don't get too trigger happy near my neighborhood. I don't want to become a statistic. LOL
What in the world are you talking about that has any real bearing on reality? OR.. are you just trying to make a sarcastic point with the strange notion you actually made a point at all?

I realize you are from MA and therefore -- perhaps -- have little to no actual experience with hunting or hunters.. or guns at all for that matter.

Therefore, let me reassure you -- so you might sleep a bit better tonite -- there has never been a documented incident in Texas of a hunter going hunting in an urban neighborhood! Does that make you feel a bit better/safer?
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Old 09-23-2013, 08:32 PM
 
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You know though, TheNewTexan does bring up an interesting point. As most here probably know, the DFW area is forever extending (mostly north) and we have so many new transplants from other areas of the country. Just about every fall it seems there will be a story on the news about people worried about their kids/property/pets because they hear the hunters for the first time after moving to the area. It's usually up in Collin County where the suburbs are slowly creeping into rural areas. Some of these new developments border on some hunting areas and many newcomers just aren't used to that. It would probably make me nervous, too! So it's sort of like the question about wildlife (they're generally nervous about coyotes and bobcats too). Are they encroaching on hunting territory, or are hunters encroaching on their territory?
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Old 09-24-2013, 05:12 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Reminds me of when we moved from New Orleans back to Texas.

Don't hurt your back.
LOL! Right now, there is not a part of me that doesn't ache--and is cut, shot and bruised to pieces.

This, too, shall pass!
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Old 09-24-2013, 03:35 PM
 
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I was thinking about this thread this morning when I flushed out a large covey of quail behind my barn while mowing. I'm guessing they were nesting in the tall weeds that have grown up in an area that I can't mow for equipment being stored there.

I haven't seen many pheasant around this summer like we normally do. My guess is the darn coyotes are making life tough for them.
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Old 09-24-2013, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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The only thing I hunt anymore is an occasional coyote. Here's a young one I shot near one of my barns in 2011. The cat in the background was killed, along with his buddy, by coyotes last month. It's a never ending battle.
The only good coyote is a dead coyote.....

Too bad they are such survivors--and will eat just about anything that doesn't get them first. It would be nice if they confined their diet to rodents/vermin--and not domestic animals/livestock!
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Old 09-24-2013, 04:21 PM
 
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The only good coyote is a dead coyote.....
I recall never having any feelings one way or the other about coyotes. I even had a close friend in college who did his master's thesis on coyote diets and who fondly called them "critters". I haven't seen that fellow in several years now but could now probably get into a real heated argument with him over coyotes. Since moving out here, I call them mammalian cockroaches (Canis cucaracha)

I just wish I could buy out the old Looney Tunes Acme Company. I would love to sell rockets to Wile E. Coyote. When he lit mine, he would find himself on the moon!
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Old 09-24-2013, 04:49 PM
 
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Since moving out here, I call them mammalian cockroaches (Canis cucaracha)

LOL!! Too funny--and too true!
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Old 09-24-2013, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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We've had coyotes around here since we moved out here. Never have caused us any problems - and we moved out here with five cats and at one point had 10 - we've lost some, but it's been to old age or illness.

The dogs and donkeys seem to discourage them from coming on the place.
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