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(I'm a guy like Mark; no offense intended)

perhaps game hog was too harsh...would butcher or psychopathic killer be more appropriate?...it has been my experience and observation, that killing for pleasure is a young man's sport. the individual pictured is not a young man. i would hope that he would know better by now. besides, this forum is supposed to be about double guns and not the joys of human excess and compulsive behavior at the expense of other living creatures.

Ed- What do you think people do with the guns they buy from you? You are an enabler, you sell the tools of the trade for killing birds (or are your guns guaranteed to miss?)

I don't believe that hunting is something we need to "grow out of". Maybe more folks should grow into it. It was explained that the birds were a pest problem and multiply in such numbers as to need no protection.
It is said that humans are hunters and gatherers and that it is ingrained into our dna. Some folks seem to have gotten an abundance of gatherer dna.

"One does not hunt in order to kill. On the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted." jose ortega y gasset

Dang it! I'm doing it wrong, I often go hunting with out killing anything. I guess I wasn't really hunting.

Now we are in agreement; Mark has hunted South Africa.

That's me Ed, psychopathic killer. Don't spread it around, but I actually take out my GAME GUNS and use them for - well for KILLING GAME. Of course, if truth be known, I feel morally superior to the hypocrits who pay some guy at a slaughter house to do their killing for them, but that's just me Ed. I think I am probably non-recoverable as well. Heck, I spent 29 years in the military, and I don't even feel ashamed of having been in combat (airborne ranger type so some sort of repressed something going on don't you think?). And as you so noted, probably just my latent immaturity manifesting itself. One caution though. I would really steer clear of sporting clays. You probably didn't realize it, but the game is designed to replicate killing birds. I'm not sure where playing at murder fits on your moral compass, but it makes me squeamish just to think of you at a course. It must leave you very conflicted. But thanks so much for the insight.

Looks like I'm a psychopath then.
You should see the numbers of rabbits we shoot and let rot where they fall. They're vermin, and we try (unsuccessfully) to eradicate them. Same with a few other species. I actually enjoy my days and evenings hunting/slaughtering the little bastards - lots of fieldcraft and marksmanship to get the numbers; of course we can never get them all, and what's left breeds like... ummm... rabbits...

Not into trophy hunting or tally hunting per se, just that it's a job that's got to be done.

I'm still human enough to shed a tear at the end of a day of putting down burned livestock after a fire.
RG

Thank you Walt.