NPR on hunting...

[sweeney3]

Check this out.  Great stuff. 

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=165046183&m=165046171

[JW_Halverson]

I was listening to this today and was wonderfully pleased that they presented hunting and it's moral implications in such powerfully positive light!

I am sincerely peeved that they did not take my call, though.  I wanted to correct their horrible mistake in citing sandhill cranes as just a "trophy hunt".  Sandies are flying ribeyes!  Sandhills do not have amazing plumage, measurable racks/spurs/beards/etc that can be mounted as a trophy....DUH!

Pretty interesting stuff, though, otherwise. 

[sweeney3]

You actually got through??? I called 21 times and got 21 busy signals.   

[JW_Halverson]

I also wanted the young gal's phone number.  Just being neighborly and inviting her to come hunt up here.  That's all.

[sweeney3]

That too. 

[bowtarist]

I've hear sandhills called, "The Sirloin of the Sky".  Never tried one though, I think they are protected down here in Indiana.  dp

[JW_Halverson]

The sandhill crane population on the eastern flyway has come to the point that they are causing crop depredation in their southern wintering area.  Kentucky tried to get a hunting season but the anti-hunting groups raised a huge stink and it was tabled again. 

I've had sandies a couple of times and they are very beefy tasting.  That breast meat is dark rich maroon in color and just simply extraordinary when grilled to medium rare. 

[bowtarist]

There's anti-hunting groups in KY?  Wow, now I've heard everything. dp

[YosemiteBen]

Sandies are protected in California. 

[mullet]

Sandhills are protected in Florida But the one I a,, I mean heard about tasted a lot like venison when lightly battered and slow cooked in gravy.