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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: sweeney3 on November 13, 2012, 11:12:12 pm

Title: NPR on hunting...
Post by: sweeney3 on November 13, 2012, 11:12:12 pm
Check this out.  Great stuff. 

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=165046183&m=165046171
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 13, 2012, 11:36:09 pm
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. 
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: sweeney3 on November 13, 2012, 11:43:45 pm
You actually got through??? :o I called 21 times and got 21 busy signals.   ;D ;D
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 14, 2012, 12:57:05 am
I also wanted the young gal's phone number.  Just being neighborly and inviting her to come hunt up here.  That's all.
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: sweeney3 on November 14, 2012, 09:34:08 am
That too. 
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: bowtarist on November 14, 2012, 12:48:40 pm
I've hear sandhills called, "The Sirloin of the Sky".  Never tried one though, I think they are protected down here in Indiana.  dp
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 14, 2012, 06:18:21 pm
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. 
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: bowtarist on November 15, 2012, 09:34:54 am
There's anti-hunting groups in KY?  Wow, now I've heard everything. ;D ;D dp
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: YosemiteBen on November 15, 2012, 12:44:57 pm
Sandies are protected in California. 
Title: Re: NPR on hunting...
Post by: mullet on November 15, 2012, 01:32:19 pm
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. :D