Stay connected in the wind. This forum is for anyone who rides the wind, winter or summer, on whatever board suits their fancy. Share the stoke, find out where people are going, ask any question, share your discoveries, and discuss any esoteric idea you may have related to the pursuit of wind. Please keep it positive.
While I love to share the wind with you and it's great, I realise many people grow up hunting and it's important to them, but to me to kill beautiful creatures is tragic, to post their murdered carcus on a wind based web site is gross.
I understand all the arguements for hunting , I agree with lots of them, I'm pleased you enjoy killing for pleasure, I just don't think this is the forum for it. IMO.
Forgive me for having a big mouth.
Yeah, obviously you didn't grow up hunting in Australia...
Just kidding Steve, I respect your opinion. But, in Minnesota this is not unusual. I grew up doing similar things (although no deer, just birds) and find the pics interesting.
Terry - nice pics! BTW - if you bought that Crestliner used, I could almost swear that's my old boat. I grew up waterskiing behind that thing (and fishing out of it, or one like it). The trailer even looks the same!
One more Australia joke and I'll be posting a photo of Coach strung upside down.
I agree with what you say Coach, and I know it gives people a lot of pride and pleasure, but when I opened the post I expected to see Mtn biking,skateboarding , whatever. My stomach actually turned over when I saw the photo.
For me I love life, rightly or wrongly I believe all live forms enjoy their life, I'd hate for some one to end my life early and proceed to stuff and mount me. For the record if someone cute and female ( JRN need not apply) wants to mount and stuff me without killing me, I'm open to discussions( as long as Nancy doesn't find out).
I would just prefer not to see something a little gross on the wind forum. Which is why, out of common courtesy and abiding by the same standards, my photo is not to be found in faces or the gallery
Sorry Steve, didn't mean to upset you. I'll ask Tighe to remove them.
Coach, I did buy the boat used. I replaced the floor, carpet, and interior.
Also rebuilt the motor ( 4.3 ) merc. Love that boat!!!!!! I can post pics.
Terry
You can come & harvest all the deer you want in my neighborhood. For one thing it takes a boatload of skill to bring down a buck with a bow.
Most people don't understand that the decreased popularity of hunting due to demonization by groups like PETA, and less interest in hunting in general, there is a HUGE over population problem with deer. The deer are breeding like rabbits. Thousands of them are hit every week on our country's roads, in some cases causing deaths. Because these animals have few natural predators in the areas they are now populating (the suburbs, my backyard) it is going to be huge problem in the future. These animals need harvesting.
If your are ever speeding up to Milly and hit one of these things going 65, you are in bad shape, or dead.
The photos may be more appropriate somewhere else. But, who cares, eat or be eaten, Terry you get a high five from me.
Tom - Speaking of hitting deer on the way to Mille Lacs, I can't remember if I posted this story before...
The last trip I took up there this August I had quite the critter encounters. I almost hit a wild turkey, a deer, and a juvenile brown bear.
The turkey was the scariest. I was doing 3-digit speeds on some of the flat middle-of-nowhere country roads. At that speed, it would have gone through the grille, engine, firewall, and ended up in my lap. Luckily, I had a long distance to spot it, and still just barely missed.
Terry...don't remove it just because I'm a pansy ass.
I totally understand the passion, I'm just a wimp.
For years Nancy and I used to compete in Archery, we stopped when we moved out to the boonies as there was not the places to practice( weird huh) I've had the misfortune of meeting Ted at a show and heard him wax lyrical on the "cure to the worlds problems" is for every one to get their hands in a gut pile. Not a philosophy I agree with but he enjoys pushing buttons and being on the edge.
I understand the discussions of herd management, especially as we ( man ) have done such a great job of removing the predators from most of the deer habitat, I know all about the wolf reintroduction up north, I did say " most" of their habitat.
I realise many people on Lakawa hunt,and I'm not trying to be a kill joy as I said earlier it was just a location thing.
I probably shouldn't get involved but let me just say that in complete contrast to the above (hunting-which I could never) I spend some of my down wind time cultivating the many splenders of nature: My saltwater reef aquarium: Note everything you see is alive. The many corals are farmed and not taken from the ocean.
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Ted has been doing quite a bit of grilling.
