vigil617
US Veteran
I thought I had heard it all, but I guess I haven't.
It has come to my attention that there are actually some gun-owners, probably including some on this very Forum, that annually participate in an activity that I find reprehensible and morally outrageous.
I'm talking about peasant hunting.
Along about this time of year, I start to hear folks around here talking about heading out to the Midwest to go hunt peasants. We apparently either do not have peasants here in the South, or their numbers are so controlled that it is not necessary to open a season on them.
From what I hear, though, it is considered quite sporty to go shotgunning for peasants in states like the Dakotas and some of those other quadrilateral states. I hear it's exciting for hunters when a peasant is flushed from cover (a shack, perhaps?) usually by a dog, of all things, and allowed to almost get away before a blast or two from the shotgunner brings the peasant down.
Then -- and this to me is an almost greater indignity -- the dog retrieves the fallen peasant and brings (drags, I guess?) it back to the gunner, to be rewarded with a "Good Boy!" or "Good Girl!" for its efforts.
I thought this was America, and we were supposed to be a class-free society. Isn't peasantry supposed to be more of a European thing? It would not surprise me to hear of a peasant season in some Northern European country, but not here in the United States!
I am really bent out of shape about this practice, and I think it's time that we take a stand against it. First thing you know, folks will be eating peasant and calling it yummy!
By the way: I think I heard that some of the peasants even wear funny-shaped little hats on their heads, similar to the ones the Masons wear, and that those peasants are known as fezants, and apparently these are hunted as well. I don't see why the hat would make any difference; perhaps it has something to do with bag limits.
It has come to my attention that there are actually some gun-owners, probably including some on this very Forum, that annually participate in an activity that I find reprehensible and morally outrageous.
I'm talking about peasant hunting.
Along about this time of year, I start to hear folks around here talking about heading out to the Midwest to go hunt peasants. We apparently either do not have peasants here in the South, or their numbers are so controlled that it is not necessary to open a season on them.
From what I hear, though, it is considered quite sporty to go shotgunning for peasants in states like the Dakotas and some of those other quadrilateral states. I hear it's exciting for hunters when a peasant is flushed from cover (a shack, perhaps?) usually by a dog, of all things, and allowed to almost get away before a blast or two from the shotgunner brings the peasant down.
Then -- and this to me is an almost greater indignity -- the dog retrieves the fallen peasant and brings (drags, I guess?) it back to the gunner, to be rewarded with a "Good Boy!" or "Good Girl!" for its efforts.
I thought this was America, and we were supposed to be a class-free society. Isn't peasantry supposed to be more of a European thing? It would not surprise me to hear of a peasant season in some Northern European country, but not here in the United States!
I am really bent out of shape about this practice, and I think it's time that we take a stand against it. First thing you know, folks will be eating peasant and calling it yummy!
By the way: I think I heard that some of the peasants even wear funny-shaped little hats on their heads, similar to the ones the Masons wear, and that those peasants are known as fezants, and apparently these are hunted as well. I don't see why the hat would make any difference; perhaps it has something to do with bag limits.
