I heard a story today that describes the typical family in my area.
During deer season, the roads are lined with pickup trucks. Hunters, decked in camouflage pile out and congregate in groups. By law, they have to wear bright orange hats or vests — thank God the bureaucrats in Raleigh are watching out for us, right? Nothing in nature is neon-orange, so I have no idea what the hunters hope to accomplish with their Real-Tree cammo.
I do know that during hunting season, it’s popular to wear hunting-clothes to school or work (if you can wear such things to work.) You can tell who the white-men are in one glance. Country-girls, as well, have taken to the practice and I have to say, I kind of like it.
People get the Real-Tree brand at stores like “Bass Pro Shop” and “Sports Authority” (though it’s also available at Wal-Marts in the hunting section.) These stores sell to white folks (in general) who are interested in the outdoors. In addition to their recreational inventory, they have a large selection of clothes you can only get at these places. That it’s turned into a sort of fashion-trend among white-folks gives me hope that for now, at least, there remains some sort of social cohesion among our folk.
And if anyone thinks that hunting (as a sport) cannot possibly be so important to people in North Carolina that it has influenced local fashion, well, let me continue my story:
A lot of hunting is done by dog. The hunter attaches radio-transmitters to the dog’s collar and watches a digital display of the landscape. When the dogs find a deer, they pursue and the hunter can watch it all from the warmth of the truck. The dogs are trained to route the deer back to the hunter for the killing shot.
This sort of hunting requires well-trained dogs, for obvious reasons, although one of the less-obvious has to do with property-rights. To hunt any bit of land, you have to have the permission of the owner (usually in writing.) If the dog strays off the authorized plot and into unauthorized territory, it could turn into a problematic situation very quickly — and that’s exactly what happened recently.
Some hunters don’t like the radio-tracking method of hunting. It’s too high-tech and borderline cowardly. True hunting involves getting out into the woods, tracking, climbing, crawling, being in the wilderness among the animals! Sitting in a pickup truck waiting for your dogs to do all the work strikes these guys as unfair.
Plus, the dogs chase after bucks (apparently).
Or, at least, that’s the claim (though I haven’t ever heard of dogs exclusively chasing buck, before.)
In one area of our county, a family of traditional hunters live side-by-side with a large area of land that is often hunted by folks using dogs with radio-transmitters — much to the chagrin of the traditional hunters. They complained, time and again, that the dogs were running all the buck off their land!
This is a grave offense.
Warnings were given: “Do NOT run dogs on our property!”
Well, sure enough, it was bound to happen. A rowdy hound disobeyed orders and strayed onto the property. Out of nowhere came a volley of shotgun blasts! BOOM BOOM!
There’s not enough evidence to indict anyone for the crime of “cruelty to animals” (an ironic charge coming from hunters), but, suffice it to say: deer are serious business around these-part (as one hound has learned the hard way. He survived, but had to spend the weekend licking his wounds to get out all the bird-shot.)
I guess the Apostle knew what he was talking about. This sort of thing makes a mockery out of our people, though in one respect, it’s an endearing one:
“1 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6 But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!
The moral of the story (if there is a moral) is this: be careful, white man, what you do when dear are involved. You don’t want to end up like this guy:
Buck Fever!
January 24, 2012I heard a story today that describes the typical family in my area.
During deer season, the roads are lined with pickup trucks. Hunters, decked in camouflage pile out and congregate in groups. By law, they have to wear bright orange hats or vests — thank God the bureaucrats in Raleigh are watching out for us, right? Nothing in nature is neon-orange, so I have no idea what the hunters hope to accomplish with their Real-Tree cammo.
I do know that during hunting season, it’s popular to wear hunting-clothes to school or work (if you can wear such things to work.) You can tell who the white-men are in one glance. Country-girls, as well, have taken to the practice and I have to say, I kind of like it.
People get the Real-Tree brand at stores like “Bass Pro Shop” and “Sports Authority” (though it’s also available at Wal-Marts in the hunting section.) These stores sell to white folks (in general) who are interested in the outdoors. In addition to their recreational inventory, they have a large selection of clothes you can only get at these places. That it’s turned into a sort of fashion-trend among white-folks gives me hope that for now, at least, there remains some sort of social cohesion among our folk.
And if anyone thinks that hunting (as a sport) cannot possibly be so important to people in North Carolina that it has influenced local fashion, well, let me continue my story:
A lot of hunting is done by dog. The hunter attaches radio-transmitters to the dog’s collar and watches a digital display of the landscape. When the dogs find a deer, they pursue and the hunter can watch it all from the warmth of the truck. The dogs are trained to route the deer back to the hunter for the killing shot.
This sort of hunting requires well-trained dogs, for obvious reasons, although one of the less-obvious has to do with property-rights. To hunt any bit of land, you have to have the permission of the owner (usually in writing.) If the dog strays off the authorized plot and into unauthorized territory, it could turn into a problematic situation very quickly — and that’s exactly what happened recently.
Some hunters don’t like the radio-tracking method of hunting. It’s too high-tech and borderline cowardly. True hunting involves getting out into the woods, tracking, climbing, crawling, being in the wilderness among the animals! Sitting in a pickup truck waiting for your dogs to do all the work strikes these guys as unfair.
Plus, the dogs chase after bucks (apparently).
Or, at least, that’s the claim (though I haven’t ever heard of dogs exclusively chasing buck, before.)
In one area of our county, a family of traditional hunters live side-by-side with a large area of land that is often hunted by folks using dogs with radio-transmitters — much to the chagrin of the traditional hunters. They complained, time and again, that the dogs were running all the buck off their land!
This is a grave offense.
Warnings were given: “Do NOT run dogs on our property!”
Well, sure enough, it was bound to happen. A rowdy hound disobeyed orders and strayed onto the property. Out of nowhere came a volley of shotgun blasts! BOOM BOOM!
There’s not enough evidence to indict anyone for the crime of “cruelty to animals” (an ironic charge coming from hunters), but, suffice it to say: deer are serious business around these-part (as one hound has learned the hard way. He survived, but had to spend the weekend licking his wounds to get out all the bird-shot.)
I guess the Apostle knew what he was talking about. This sort of thing makes a mockery out of our people, though in one respect, it’s an endearing one:
The moral of the story (if there is a moral) is this: be careful, white man, what you do when dear are involved. You don’t want to end up like this guy: