I've killed plenty of big game, mostly with a bow. I don't laugh as they drop, I feel remorse. My celebration is in feeding my family. To each their own. If you want, cheer the hero.
Very condescending.
When exactly after the successful downing of the quarry is one allowed to smile?
How about after the smile, how long to shake hands? The biggy, the back slap, how about that? (I’m not a hugger)
I have like a lot of guys here guided and helped a ton of people take game over the last 50 years plus. I’ve seen every reaction imaginable in that situation and never cast judgement on any one of them. People process differently. To cast aspersions in such situations only displays the vanity
of emotion policemen.
Certain people from even the best of upbringings become bad and even feral. Who knows why? You don’t think animals are the same? When a dog attacks people, and kills livestock your solution is handing it off to someone or a shelter? Push the bad potential down the road?
Her point in the telling was sometimes hard decisions are thrown at you, not that she was a “hero”. Quite the opposite
When I was a boy my uncle had a terrific hunting dog. Great big friendly dog. Visiting uncle Dad walked ahead of me with my younger twin sisters maybe 3 yr old hand in hand on each side, up the walk. That dog came flying around the corner of the house and bowled into one of my sisters, her head in its jaws in a flash right in front of me. Dad spun and caught the dog with a terrific gut kick to get the dog off and then hustled us up to the entry, my sister bleeding good.
I don’t think we all got thru the door before uncle came the other way gun in hand. Seemed like in just seconds we heard the shot.
That’s the real world, real consequences, real time. We never used the world hero.
Osky
