my endura saved my life yesterday

kimberfan said:
Wow didnt expect the the spyderco fourm to be so full of stuck up people thanks for ruining my faith in bladeforums.....
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There are a lot of A-holes on BF.... I'm not normally one of them, but I am in a really A-holish mood today, I must vent out my anger on you because I'm an internet keyboard commandomambojumbo.

But seriously though, a 12g shotgun to kill a hamster sized gopher..... that's just whack.
 
JohnnyLightOn said:
Is there really any difference between killing a helpless little groundhog and killing pigs, cows, and chickens so we can eat cheap and tasty food? After all, aren't those also helpless animals? I'm a meat eater, but at least I acknowledge what I'm doing. The groundhog-killer-protestors appear to be in a bit of internal disagreement. ;)
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stabman said:
If he eats the animal, then I'll cut him some slack.
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This ^
 
Seanifred said:
would hate to find out how he kills the spiders in his house
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I'm sorry the photo was deleted before I found this thread.

If my Grandma were still alive she would gladly have skinned and eaten a groundhog.
 
Got here a little late, but very interesting thread.

I've always wondered what method one should choose when dispatching a groundhog....a knife or a 12 gauge.
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Seanifred said:
would hate to find out how he kills the spiders in his house
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I sucked one up with a vacuum today. There was a huge, thick web by my window, so I started sucking it up, and a big-ass spider came out of it. I tried getting it with the vacuum, but it wouldn't go into the nozzle, so I had to nudge it to get it to lose leverage.

Needless to say, I was scared during the whole ordeal :S

I am a disgrace to the Spyderco :(
 
i am a little sad i missed the picture, however this whole thing reminds me of my grandfathers method with which to kill ground hogs (actual ground hogs) He had one that was acting rabid walking toward the house so he tried to shoot it with a 30-30 but missed (hadn't sited it in years) so at this point he takes my little cousins tee ball bat and runs across the yard in the rather frighting short shorts he tends to wear and proceeds to beat it to death...... my sister and i lived across the road at the time and need less to say got quite a show.
 
Aww, I came to the party late.

People complaining about the death of a rodent? Really?

You guys should hear about places with a cat infestation. No animal is sacred if there's a hundred of them running around your yard.
 
The Logical One said:
But seriously though, a 12g shotgun to kill a hamster sized gopher..... that's just whack.
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I wish I'd have seen the picture too. Seriously, I have woodchucks / groundhogs on my property the size of small dogs. Out run one - no chance! These big b*stards see me wheeling out of the house with a scoped rifle and they're down a hole before I can level the rifle. The one nearest the house has one hole, so big that the riding lawnmower (big tires) caved in the tunnel and we had to manually lift the rear axle out of the way to continue mowing.

My neighbor's Collie made the mistake of grabbing a big buck and it was like freakin Armageddon out there for about 10 minutes. He finally killed it but his muzzle and head was rearranged for a couple of weeks until he healed up fairly well.

Trust me, I wouldn't get close enough to one of these pr*cks to try & stab one or punt one. You might pull back a bloody stump! :D

ARRRRGHH!!! :eek:

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Joshua J. said:
Aww, I came to the party late.

People complaining about the death of a rodent? Really?

You guys should hear about places with a cat infestation. No animal is sacred if there's a hundred of them running around your yard.
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No one's complaining about him killing a rodent...the issue is not that he killed a gopher, but that he was acting as if his life was in danger (LMAO!) as a result, and his act of mutilating a tiny rodent was quick-thinking heroism rather than borderline sadism. I mean, the title is "my endura saved my life", not "I used my endura to dismember a rodent the size of a chipmunk, that'll show the little bastards for eating my garden".

If this is a troll thread, well done. I had a good laugh.

If this is for real though, like people have said, try kicking it next time, or walking away. I'm not going to whip out any type of defensive tool for anything smaller than an aggressive dog (maybe a bobcat or wild boar).

In all seriousness, if you live in the Western US regions around the Rockies and Sierras, a knife like an Endura really could save your life against a mountain lion. In that case, 12 gauge IS warranted.
 
mentaculus said:
In all seriousness, if you live in the Western US regions around the Rockies and Sierras, a knife like an Endura really could save your life against a mountain lion. In that case, 12 gauge IS warranted.
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Talk about a laugh! Have you ever been around wild cougar (mountain lions)? I have and in a large enclosure of 95% wild ones as well. These are no joke, real killing engines - just slightly smaller than their renowned "slightly" larger cousins - leopards. An Endura 4 against a mountain lion who's bent on naiing you or running over you - is indeed a joke. You'd be deader than road kill. BTW - Tarzan was a TV character based on a novel.
 
cziv said:
Talk about a laugh! Have you ever been around wild cougar (mountain lions)? I have and in a large enclosure of 95% wild ones as well. These are no joke, real killing engines - just slightly smaller than their renowned "slightly" larger cousins - leopards. An Endura 4 against a mountain lion who's bent on naiing you or running over you - is indeed a joke. You'd be deader than road kill. BTW - Tarzan was a TV character based on a novel.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023312/posts
"It was like a knife fight that you'd see in an old-time Western," he said. The bear swatted out at him, but each time it lunged, he managed to stab it.

"I couldn't tell you if the fight lasted three seconds or three minutes," Hirsch said.

Three stabs to the bear's chest and one to its neck finally did the bruin in.
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THG said:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023312/posts
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I don't give much credence to occasional incidents such as guys killing big cats in Africa with theiir bare hands. Did it happen that way. Maybe for that specific incident but on the norm such encounters have endings that are much worse.

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The bear was in poor shape, suffering from a severed tongue and broken jaw, the conservation officer said. Its stomach was empty and the bear had little fat on it
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Gophers are having a rough time these days. Their not even safe from birds.
 

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