Screw the Greenpeacers and the PETA *&^holes there Ellen- I've got no use for them, anymore than a lifetime free subscription to Martha Stewart's Jailhouse Decor memories magazine-- BUT, to know and defeat your enemy, as Patton and Frederick The Great once taught us, first you must KNOW HIM- his camoflauge, his movements, what makes him or her "Tick"-- I see the gentleman redid the foto to delete the deceased Hawk- judging with the 20-20 Hindsight, that might have been the best move in the first place, and the shotgun shown in a better close up shot for ID purposes herein--
I'll shoot on sight ANy feral cat, raccoon, possum, fox, skunk or other four footed predator (except a porcupine) I encounter, and I have put many into the ground with either rifle or shotgun. Three of the private preserves where I hunt birds in my area have me and son-in-law on "coyote death watch" and from mid-Jan through march on Private lands, we will usually kill 15 or more of those maurading bastards- keeping Martha's pet Pomerinian safe from being snatched outta a back yard by a hungry 'yote. But I will never shoot or molest or harrass any hawk or Airborne feather sentinel of death- I love to watch them in flight- soaring, we are brother hunters, and the Olde Days lords and noblemen hunted with Hawks they had trained- that to me is Death under control as much as a jet jockey nailing a NVA MIG with his F-16- a think of beauty--to each his own, but a Happy Holidays to you and yourn!!
