OT: Lest we laden the Cantina with ponderous topics

That whole page had me rolling! Your friend has a talent for humorous writing Kismet.

Bill, I'm sorry but I don't really see what's so wrong here. The deer died a quick, clean death. IMO using too big a gun is far more humane than using one too small. My goal has always been for the quarry to drop in it's tracks never knowing what happened. Less pain and suffering is always good.
 
i'm in utter disagreement here. i'd use a single large shot, the typical cannon ball if you will.

now that would take some serious skill. particularly if you are chasing the deer by pushing the cannon through the forest.

:D
 
Bill the Cat- are you really angry the guy used a cannon to harvest a deer?

If you notice, the deer is hung and skinned- he is going to be eaten. Of course I don't want people shooting cannons at deer. But what I do admire greatly is this instance of a guy having fun. That's right- fun. There are some things that make me laugh enough to remember life is worthwhile. This was one of them. It was so unlikely, unneccesary, unweildy, that it became the impossible made possible.

I've noticed a wide variety of opinion on what constitutes moral behavior in the woods. Many things are common that I would not do, and I've done things others would think deplorable. In the end, we only control our own actions and live with ourselves.

munk
 
BtC?

You do know this is a spoof, right? I can't even count the number of laws that this behavior would violate. Easy there, BigCat.


(By the way, it is the season for newscasters to give the statistics on deer-car collisions in Wisconsin. Last year, Wisconsin alone, 21,000 reported collisions--many non-reported. Automobile insurers paid out in the multi-millions, several thousand human injuries, over a 100 human deaths. General advice is to go slow in the early A.M. and at dusk, and to hit the deer, rather than swerve into (ditch, on-coming traffic, mountain cannon, etc.)
 
Kismet said:
BtC?

You do know this is a spoof, right?

General advice is to go slow in the early A.M. and at dusk, and to hit the deer, rather than swerve into (ditch, on-coming traffic, mountain cannon, etc.)
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I'm sure our friend Kis meant "canyon" rather than "cannon" or it was just a Freudian slip...:D

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On the other hand this would put a whole new perspective on those crazy sumbeetches who take a rifle too a freeway for some off hand sniping.:rolleyes: :D :D :D

Hell with a Mountain Howitzer, or Cannon, it would/might be possible to take out a Big Rig!!!!;)
 
I liked the 1,000 yards of yellow warning tape.

Seriously, waterfowl hunters (sorry Poachers, not hunters) used "punt guns" , a small blackpowder canon with a rowboat built around it, to sneak up and shoot 100's of ducks at once... of course, not legal, not sporting or ethical. Something to get P.O'd at for real, not this well-done joke.

But when you think of the plinking potential.... hmmmm. Punt gun....

AA
 
Ad Astra said:
Seriously, waterfowl hunters (sorry Poachers, not hunters) used "punt guns" , a small blackpowder canon with a rowboat built around it, to sneak up and shoot 100's of ducks at once... of course, not legal, not sporting or ethical. Something to get P.O'd at for real, not this well-done joke.

But when you think of the plinking potential.... hmmmm. Punt gun....

AA
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The old time hunters did use a boat, but generally used a 4 gauge shotgun. I've heard of larger gauges but have never researched them.

A 4 gauge shotgun shell on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7309&item=7111701237&rd=1

A 3 rd capacity 4 gauge shotgun. Would you shoot it?:eek: :D :rolleyes:
I'd have too think about it long and hard for maybe another 40 years.
Knowing that I don't have that much time left.;) :p
http://toz.vpk.ru/eng/123.htm
 
When I was about six or seven I cut open a bunch of shotgun shells to get the powder to use in a "cannon" that I had made by hammering shut one end of a one inch copper pipe about a foot long. I drilled a flash hole, and filled the thing about half way up with gunpowder and jammed a big ball bearing down in it. I put it in a vise and set a cardboard box across the basement to aim at.

I had learned all my armory expertise from watching pirate movies, so I knew all I had to do was put a match to the flash hole.

I decided to clean up a bit before the first shot so I threw all the empty shells in the furnace. The primers went off and it echoed all through the house which brought my parents running down to see what I had gotten into.

That was the end of that experiment. I survived. But they confiscated my cannon. What they didn't know was that I had found another stash of 12GA shells and was working on plans to make grenades that I could throw out of the attic window.
 
"You do know this is a spoof, right?"

Apparently not.
Am I to understand that you believe this deer was NOT 'harvested' with a cannon exactly as described?

deer.jpg


"I've noticed a wide variety of opinion on what constitutes moral behavior in the woods"

... no $H!T!
 
That deer was obviously taken by the cannon. The roast at the table will be exactly like the one from a deer shot by a 308



munk
 
The deer was taken with by a truly stealthy hunter with a HI kerambit, than a jealous buddy raked it with an AK, just to steal the first dude's glory.

AA :p
 
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