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In reply to the discussion: So, tell me again why I should hunt with a rock, a long bow ...or a spear. [View all]Warpy
(110,901 posts)54. Hardcore paleo diet, anyone?
Yes, 80-90% of their diet was from gathering plant foods and snaring small game, both provided by women. However, for manly men justifying a diet of meat, meat, and more meat, the paleo hunting methods using a spear, bow and arrow, or large rock dropped off a cliff would be wholly authentic. Never mind that when hunting was lousy, grubs and termites were on the menu. With supermarkets around there is no reason for that nonsense.
This is the way to do it, up in the Rockies, flint tipped spear in hand. Authentic to the last.
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So, tell me again why I should hunt with a rock, a long bow ...or a spear. [View all]
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
OP
Whatever it takes to receive maximum entertainment from killing a bear, have at it.
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#1
Exactly. Indulging in pre-evolutionary practices for the procurement of foods that are
underahedgerow
Aug 2016
#57
Heh-heh. I think the biggest hunting danger is a heart attack, dragging out a deer.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#15
Nice equipment. On occasion, I meet shutterbugs in the woods. Most seem aware
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#20
If you oppose hunting, fine. But some antis need to get their emotions/prejudices
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#11
I don't know if I'd like it; I do know I wouldn't like hunting anything that couldn't shoot back.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Aug 2016
#88
What an African-American Rosewood, FL pogrom victim asked a white lynch mob member
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#81
You seem to have confused hunting with carrying an AR-15 to a political rally. Why?
63splitwindow
Aug 2016
#12
Well, the topic is hunting WITHOUT a gun. Did you clear your post with GD hosts?
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#21
You use guns for more than hunting animals. You are a gun promoter, even using a gun reference
Hoyt
Aug 2016
#27
We'd be better off if gunners could live with a spear rather than AR15s and a gun in their pants
Hoyt
Aug 2016
#31
Where FL is way ahead of TX: It allows taking of roadkill. Quite progressive.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#30
I used to hunt with a rifle but I had a friend who was killed my senior year of High School.
dilby
Aug 2016
#33
You may recall the latest "Cecille the Lion" posting, this time someone killing a bear
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#44
Okay thanks, I am impressed at the stupidity of anyone that will attack a bear with a spear.
Rex
Aug 2016
#45
If folks are into ritual combat cum hunting, then take on hogs with a knife...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#46
Was the bear attacking people? Was it self-defense? Did the hunter eat the bear?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#56
what provides you personally with the maximum entertainment value of killing for sport?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#55
A little unclear, but I enjoy the pursuit of an animal which is superbly equipped for evasion...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#72
My point there originally was, assuming you were only doing it for enjoyment, so to speak
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#84
Rocks and Spears are dumb...long bow is nice and traditional in a Fred Bear kind of way.
ileus
Aug 2016
#69
Good point. Play fair with a dangerous animal? No-o-o. There is greater "fairness" with
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#76
Long bow could be cool, popular enough - but at that point I'd be choosing a Compound Bow.
jmg257
Aug 2016
#71
Not slaggng long bows, just one of the instruments thrown back at me by the Manly crowd.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#77