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BigO95 said:
I'm glad to hear that you are a man of prayer. I wasn't trying to be presuming about anything. And how was I supposed to know that you were paraphrasing anything?
I'm not sure why you posted what you did towards me and I really don't care. That is a light hearted thread with plenty of humor and I am trying my best to keep it that way.
If you want to have a theology discussion, I will be glad to do it in the Bible thread.
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I've encountered your type throughout my life, surrounding your petty slights in the cotton candy prose of false piety. I'm sorry that I mistook your character, earlier. I won't err in that fashion, again.
 
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mcompton said:
Too cool to shoot...
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I used to be like you. I'd kill something just to get a closer look at it or kill it because it killed things I liked to kill. I'm not like that anymore. I don't care if you do though.
 
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Behr said:
I used to be like you. I'd kill something just to get a closer look at it or kill it because it killed things I liked to kill. I'm not like that anymore. I don't care if you do though.
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I dont make a dent in the predator population on my place. If I wanted to move the needle, I’d hire a trapper to hunt em all winter. As long as I adhere to TWRA hunting rules and regs, I’m going to try and protect the turkeys and quail on my place and the chickens on my next door neighbor’s place.
 
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Its crazy how I've changed. Not sure why either. I wasn't joking, when I lived on the farm the only reason I never killed a bobcat is because I never had a chance. I'm ashamed at some of the things I killed when I was younger, just to get a closer look.

I killed a turkey one evening coming out of the woods after deer hunting. It was still a little light walking beside the cornfield on the tobacco road. I had my 8" stainless Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum in my left hand, I shoot right handed and had my bow in my right. I heard something in the corn and I cocked the gun....a turkey flew up about 10 yards in front of me and I raised the gun and pointed it in the direction of the turkey.

It wasn't turkey season mind you....too late for "long story short". I got home and started plucking feathers and was sooooo not into it, I threw it away.
 
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mcompton said:
I dont make a dent in the predator population on my place. If I wanted to move the needle, I’d hire a trapper to hunt em all winter. As long as I adhere to TWRA hunting rules and regs, I’m going to try and protect the turkeys and quail on my place and the chickens on my next door neighbor’s place.
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You said to each his own. I agree and I ain't judging. Sometimes true meaning in black and white letter gets lost. Pretty sure I couldn't kill a deer now.
 
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Behr said:
You said to each his own. I agree and I ain't judging. Sometimes true meaning in black and white letter gets lost. Pretty sure I couldn't kill a deer now.
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I can't kill now either seen to much death. Now if I had to eat and needed the food I would.
 
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mcompton said:
I dont make a dent in the predator population on my place. If I wanted to move the needle, I’d hire a trapper to hunt em all winter. As long as I adhere to TWRA hunting rules and regs, I’m going to try and protect the turkeys and quail on my place and the chickens on my next door neighbor’s place.
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I’m building my last place on graysville mountain soon. Will have chickens and lots of Turkeys are around. If I see bobcats or Coyotes they’re dead mother ****ers
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
I’m building my last place on graysville mountain soon. Will have chickens and lots of Turkeys are around. If I see bobcats or Coyotes they’re dead mother ****ers
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Hawks and owls and Eagles are your biggest threat with chickens. And they tag those Eagles you don't want to get caught killing one of those. I used to have chickens and they all got killed by hawks and Eagles.
 
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VolNExile said:
You're interfering with the natural balance of species when you hunt predators for no reason. I'm a bit skeptical about the 80% part, but even if bobcats do depend heavily on wild turkeys, if there aren't enough bobcats to keep their numbers down, the turkey population will get out of control, encouraging disease and starvation. I don't know that there are enough turkey hunters to then easily get the turkey numbers back to the sustainable level.

I don't hunt (you would not want to be in the same woods as me with a gun, no doubt), and I don't have a problem with hunting prey animals like turkey and ducks and deer, but killing predators just because they irritate you is a whole different thing.
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The bobwhite quail says you need to study up a bit on why they are nearly nonexistent. You can't kill enough predators to make a dent. The only good coyote is a dead coyote. Not sure I would kill a solitary bobcat but if I'm hunting an area and they are prevalent, then they may come up missing a few.
 
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I think I still have enough in me to kill it if it was in my chickens or other farm aminals.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
The bobwhite quail says you need to study up a bit on why they are nearly nonexistent. You can't kill enough predators to make a dent. The only good coyote is a dead coyote. Not sure I would kill a solitary bobcat but if I'm hunting an area and they are prevalent, then they may come up missing a few.
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Y’all heard about the full grown Jaguar/mountain lion I encountered.......in my front fricking yard about a year ago. The predators are more prevalent than most realize.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
But, would you drink smoky mountain panther poop coffee?
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