tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690422682664917237.post5199796498611252851..comments2023-10-26T06:18:58.649-04:00Comments on Pennsylvania Wildlife Photographer: A Tale Of Cameras,Guns, And Whitetail DeerWillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17059945499957721902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690422682664917237.post-26305200074816700512007-10-17T23:35:00.000-04:002007-10-17T23:35:00.000-04:00Wow Willard, thats quite a story. How sad that a d...Wow Willard, thats quite a story. How sad that a deer you knew was shot and killed. Scary to think what might have happened had the kid decided to shoot one of your friends standing near you. <BR/><BR/>I drooled when you mentioned your 35-350 L lens :) I have a 75-200 L that I love but the one you have is on my "wish list".Faye Pekashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06176788826303435577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690422682664917237.post-39701648886298808262007-10-16T14:27:00.000-04:002007-10-16T14:27:00.000-04:00This is a great post, very sad to read but your vi...This is a great post, very sad to read but your views are very refreshing to hear. I have shot in the past, mostly rabbits and small game birds, nothing like deer. I have friends who still hunt with dogs, either for the pot or to feed their dogs. Fishing over here is big, with lots of bait and tackle shops. Sea fishing trips are arranged. I have been on a few sea fishing trips but had to stop as the waste of fish was quite disgusting. Why catch it if you can't or will not eat it. Some thought it was fun to catch fish after fish and then feed the gulls with them.<BR/>I'm looking forward to reading your post.<BR/>Hyper links... I had to ask Abe about this a week or two back..<BR/>and since them I have come across this.. http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee230/bostonscapes-dpb/Htmlcode.jpg<BR/><BR/>I have it printed out at the side of me now while I'm blogging.. have a look it make be what you are looking forTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690422682664917237.post-63283486819056991522007-10-16T10:29:00.000-04:002007-10-16T10:29:00.000-04:00Abraham,I didn't know it at the time but it turned...Abraham,<BR/><BR/>I didn't know it at the time but it turned out that we had arrested this boy's brother for late spotlighting sometime before that. We had also had complaints about he and his brother hunting over bait ,riding their all terrain vehicles on their neighbor's property and shooting deer at night by riding the ATVS, locating the deer with a spotlight and shooting them. We tried to catch them sitting over the bait one morning, but no one was there and no deer had been at the bait so it looks like they had "shot their territory out" In the case of this story he was probably like a kid in a candy store thinking he had found new territory to shoot. Unfortunately for him the situation was too good to be true. Had he had any intelligence he would have realized that all of those deer were there for one reason--someone was trying to take care of them. The problem is tbat sooner or later one of these characters slips by me and succeeds. Right now I am missing another deer. I saw her last on Friday morning. The options are that she wandered from the property and was taken with a bow which was the only legal weapon that day. barring that she was shot from the road, or perhaps at night. I'll post more on this later, but I think the pro-wildlife people are on the losing end, at least at present. <BR/><BR/>Are you aware that a certain amount of people are actively crusading to permit hunting in our national parks? I can hardly believe this ,but it is true! Here is the address of a blog that concerns itself daily with such issues. Although he is not on the park issue right now. It is interesting to see the thought processes behind it all. I can't figure how to hyper link it so I'll just copy and paste it in. http://www.mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/<BR/>I know you won't enjoy reading it, but it is illuminating. <BR/><BR/>I'll try to periodically post on this type of subject. A primary reason for launching this blog was to present the pro-wildlife side of the argument. I realize that few will likely read it, but I became so frustrated having to listen to commentary in most places that I disagree with, with few presenting the other side.<BR/><BR/>I'll stop for now but try to continue this in future posts.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments and support.<BR/><BR/>willardWillardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17059945499957721902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690422682664917237.post-78915004794430928052007-10-16T09:23:00.000-04:002007-10-16T09:23:00.000-04:00A truly heartbreaking story. It reinforces my deci...A truly heartbreaking story. It reinforces my decision, long ago, to give up hunting and fishing. <BR/><BR/>I don't need wildlife for food and I sure don't need to kill them for "sport." <BR/><BR/>I really think killing wildlife should be made a criminal offense but then who am I?<BR/><BR/>Where does a doe go to give birth in Ohio? <BR/><BR/>More emphasis should be on developing habitats and sanctuaries for wildlife. <BR/><BR/>Streams and lakes should not only be pollution free but free from mankind's intervention and off limits to hunting and fishing.<BR/><BR/>I have heard the old arguments about the hunting license going to help wildlife in some way. <BR/><BR/>I don't think so. <BR/><BR/>This land was filled from ocean to ocean with so much wildlife that the earth trembled when they passed and the sky turned dark when the flew over but then the Christian Europeans arrived and the slaughter began and is still going on. <BR/><BR/>Nature has a wonderful way of helping itself without mankind's ideas.<BR/><BR/>I like your photography a lot. I like what you take pictures of even more. <BR/><BR/>I think the man in the truck or SUV should have been taken out of the vehicle and told to run. <BR/><BR/>And then I would have loved to take some pot shots at him -- arm and leg shots only. Make him suffer a little. <BR/><BR/>These human creatures are the same kind of kids that go around kicking puppy dogs and stomping on cats and kittens.<BR/><BR/>They are the freaks of nature and in this world there is no shortage of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com