F Minus by Tony Carrillo for September 10, 2023

So much easier to enjoy your love of killing and feel yourself a mighty hunter.

Deer, elk, bear, and coyote?

That does sound challenging.

Now that’s truly sporting and so much fairer!

What animal would agree to be hunted? ☹️

De feet?

I like this guy. Sort of like the Native Americans who would “Take Coup”, touch their enemy with a stick, to claim victory, rather than kill them. There was an honor system dictating that the vanquished would leave the field of battle and the remaining party would be the winners of the battle. Wolves force their enemies onto their backs and the beaten individual surrenders and leaves town to live another day. I never have understood how hunters can make trophies out of the beautiful animals they kill. I remember “The Far Side” had a few ‘toons" where the deer also had guns. That’d be fair.

Stalking the various beasts with Howitzers on trailers towed by plush RVs just wasn’t a challenge anymore.

“Counting coup” on prey would definitely be a lot more “manly” than high-fence hunting or similar.

A true hunter would engage the prey with no weapons except what a human body already has. But alas, human hunters are just wimps.

Now THAT’S the way to do it!

I like this approach. Nature shows would be: “The sight of our intrepid hunter approaching with their lawyer terrified the lion…”

I don’t like hunting; however, I don’t crap on something others enjoy just to virtue-signal or encore my opinions on others. I agree that endangered species must be off the menu except in very unusual circumstances.