I imagine that this will likely kill my reputation but I'd like to ask you if someone ever went hunting in bare feet or even better went barefoot and with a longbow . And if this was helpful to gain stealthiness and make the day. for the controversial hunting thing I accept criticism only from the vegetarian. source:http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/
I Own A 800 acre Farm, I Am A Nudist, And A Fulltime Barefooter, When I Go Hunting, Naked And Barefoot, I Don't Take A Longbow, I Take A Double Barrel 12 Gauge Shotgun... Cheers Glen.
well actually for me it was an old browning auto-5 or a scoped british enfield n.4MK1 for large game but I've discontinued hunting 9 years ago before starting barefooting since it became pointless here to pay $ 1200 a year just for taxes and becoming prey of an horde of policemen and hunting guards that enforce the silliest, most complicate hunting laws ever seen on earth. that's the Italian style, they don't just tell you "you are not allowed to do this, period" , they answer yes of course, rob you with insane fees and devise thousands of rules made to actually prevent you from being 100% sure that you aren't breaking any law, so finally one gives up. all this while the so called authorities don't give a bloody fuck about massive environmental destruction , abusive buildings and toxic waste pollution as long as they take their FAT , totally unlawful share. just imagine that hunters are bound to the land, which means that a hunter here can't hunt outside the city boundaries which aren't signed anywhere so you never know. or you may get a charge for hunting by the 'road' where 'road' can be an abandoned dirt path in the middle of nothing signed as 'road' in some middle age map that no one has ever seen and getting a criminal charge for an unwilling mistake is more than simply possible. Italian style: messing up rules so much that everyone is in the perpetual fear of being caught for some obscure fault. This applies to all sides of Italian life. It's Kafka at his best . It is the land where you can be fined for breaking the speed limits while at your Grandma's funeral . i am not joking. It happened to me, really. The only one of the whole motorcade which is utterly nonsensical since we were all driving at the same speed and I wasn't willing to win a speed race against the hearse. Later we learned that the police purposely tampered with the speedometers to issue more fines which resulted in thousands of unlawful sanctions. I envy you from the deepest of my little black heart and would definitely pay to see the face of someone encountering you naked with a scattergun in the wild. I'd like to try it again in near-paleolithic gear this time but it is impossible for a number of reasons. do you get any extra advantages from being barefoot/nude on the field ?
jagerhans, This Reminds Me Of A Very Funny Incident That Happend To Me A Few Years Ago. About 5-00am One Morning, I Was Awakened By This Mournful Howling Sound, Which I Assumed Was A Fox Or Feral Dog Attacking One Of My Sheep, So I Jumped Out Of Bed, Grabbed The Shotgun, And Proceeded To Grope My Way Through A "Pea Soup" Fog In The Direction Of The Noise. Just As I Reached The Lower Part Of A Pine Plantation Next To A Public Road, This Guy Came Out Of The Fog Taking His Dog For A Early Morning Walk. When He Sighted Me, He Froze.... I Fully Expected To Receive A Visit From The Local Police, But Judging By The Shocked Expression On His Face, It Was Most Unlikely He Was Going To Report A Naked Man, In The Middle Of A Thick Fog, With A Shotgun, And Still Be Considered Sane.. Fun Times..... Cheers Glen.
I'm not a hunter. I'd find it tough to kill an animal, but I'm also smart enough to know the meat in the grocery store isn't naturally produced in freezer packs! I'll defend hunters anytime, just something I'm not comfortable with myself. I've got a few guns (.22 rifle, M1 rifle, 9 mm pistol), but I use them to shoot defenseless pieces of paper. I can kill a sheet of paper from a couple hundred yards away!!! Ooohhhh, bad visual, but really funny! I would have loved to have been there - well, on second thought, maybe not! Great story!!!
when it comes to hunting and killing animals it is always a tough topic . in the country it is accepted without a second thought that both game and farm animals are killed, while city people who never saw killing routinely poultry and pigs in the yard of a farm are rather harsh about hunting, but usually don't waste a word over the fate of home bred animals. to me, the ones who really need mercy are not wild boars, pheasants or deer, but poultry raised in stock and industrial cattle. keeping an animal without space for moving for all its life, constantly manipulated by chemistry in order to achieve higher profits from its body is the kind of violence that I find truly horrifying, not a gunshot or the knife of the maid (killing poultry was traditionally women's business). it wasn't such a bad way of life, when we were a nation of farmers (if one does not take into account people like an uncle of mine who just plain starved when a child and the greed of big landowners :-| ) ... at least bare feet were commonplace and almost mandatory from April to late October
Your rep is fine with me, jagerhans. While I don't eat mammals, birds or reptiles, I find the hypocrisy of those who do, yet condemn hunting as cruel, unpardonable. I grew up in a semi-rural setting where we raised our own cows for meat, went hunting (not barefoot back then) , the whole bit. I still have no problem taking my sailboat (barefoot, of course) out to catch a fish, gut it and eat it, but cringe at the sight of cellophane wrapped meat in the supermarket, knowing from where it came and the untold suffering it represents.
Good for you! Excellent post, clarifying much. We also have a subforum here which deals with such subjects. I'm thinking of posting there more. But thank you for mentioning the plight of so many farm animals. That's serious cruelty. I am looking to back away from depending on animals for food. It will be a process, rather than an instant, for me. Even before coming to this realization, I never hunted. Just doesn't appeal to me, but never been against it. I live in a major US hunting state (Maine)
