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<blockquote data-quote="Konrad" data-source="post: 834137" data-attributes="member: 26549"><div style="text-align: center"><div style="text-align: center"><strong><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Re: Heart Shot Photos</span></u></strong></div> </div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Not too many folks (including most hunters) are willing to freely admit that being the apex predator is "fun" and fundamentally satisfying at a level normally not touched upon during our everyday lives. It has been hard wired into our make up for thousands of years and only more recently suppressed by society. If we were not such successful predators, Cro-Magnon man would still be the dominant hominid walking the earth.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Our civilization blanches (as it rightly should) at the gore of mangled organs and flesh. If it did not, we would not be living within a civilization per say but more a violence dominated plane where every conflict, both major and minor, would be sorted out by death-dealing blows resulting in piles of carcasses over debates regarding who should have the best parking spot at the grocery store. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">On the one hand, I too am hesitant to ingest a photo diet of severed and bloody limbs, organs and bodies. (Hopefully, that means I am at least somewhat civilized too.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">One the other hand, I understand all of that destruction goes hand in hand with one of my passions in life…hunting.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Perhaps the overriding reason (beyond my underlying revulsion to guts…I just can't seem to keep that civilized guy at bay) for my not participating in these displays of mutilation is my hope of converting another non-hunter to my way of life. No one can persuade me that photographic works such as these (livers perforated with 375 H&H caliber bullets are also quite dramatic) can aid our cause in the promotion of the hunting sports to the uninitiated.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My suggestion is for all of our benefit: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If you must make photo records of the brutal reality of hunting, please keep them private. At the very minimum, keep them for display to your fellow non-closeted apex predator friends. I envision them now, pointed teeth, drooling at their mouths, beating clubs on the ground and grunting around a campfire jostling for the best position for the first piece of roasting heart. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Don't post them to Facebook or some other web-site so they can be used as anti-hunting propaganda by hairy women with tattoos and pierced bodies.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Speaking of hairy women with tattoos and pierced bodies…Wasn't there a time when those were the very girls who were the most proud of our hunting successes?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My, how times have changed!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Konrad, post: 834137, member: 26549"] [CENTER][CENTER][B][U][FONT=Times New Roman]Re: Heart Shot Photos[/FONT][/U][/B][/CENTER][/CENTER] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Not too many folks (including most hunters) are willing to freely admit that being the apex predator is “fun” and fundamentally satisfying at a level normally not touched upon during our everyday lives. It has been hard wired into our make up for thousands of years and only more recently suppressed by society. If we were not such successful predators, Cro-Magnon man would still be the dominant hominid walking the earth.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Our civilization blanches (as it rightly should) at the gore of mangled organs and flesh. If it did not, we would not be living within a civilization per say but more a violence dominated plane where every conflict, both major and minor, would be sorted out by death-dealing blows resulting in piles of carcasses over debates regarding who should have the best parking spot at the grocery store. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]On the one hand, I too am hesitant to ingest a photo diet of severed and bloody limbs, organs and bodies. (Hopefully, that means I am at least somewhat civilized too.)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]One the other hand, I understand all of that destruction goes hand in hand with one of my passions in life…hunting.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Perhaps the overriding reason (beyond my underlying revulsion to guts…I just can’t seem to keep that civilized guy at bay) for my not participating in these displays of mutilation is my hope of converting another non-hunter to my way of life. No one can persuade me that photographic works such as these (livers perforated with 375 H&H caliber bullets are also quite dramatic) can aid our cause in the promotion of the hunting sports to the uninitiated.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]My suggestion is for all of our benefit: [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]If you must make photo records of the brutal reality of hunting, please keep them private. At the very minimum, keep them for display to your fellow non-closeted apex predator friends. I envision them now, pointed teeth, drooling at their mouths, beating clubs on the ground and grunting around a campfire jostling for the best position for the first piece of roasting heart. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Don’t post them to Facebook or some other web-site so they can be used as anti-hunting propaganda by hairy women with tattoos and pierced bodies.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Speaking of hairy women with tattoos and pierced bodies…Wasn’t there a time when those were the very girls who were the most proud of our hunting successes?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]My, how times have changed![/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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