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Bull calf born with no eyes???
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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1014116" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>Bez, don't make too many assumptions. I am not as soft as you may think. When I was growing up on the farm in what was a poor farming county in Kentucky, I earned my reputation for being the animal executioner. When some poor farmer had an animal that he wanted put down, he would call my Dad and ask if I would do the honors. I was a good hunter, trapper and marksman. Spent the entire summer hunting and trapping groundhogs for the local folks. I earned anywhere from 15 to 30 cents bounty to get groundhogs out of farmers barns or hay fields. Even shot a couple horses. I remember the first big animal was a draft horse that got foundered on corn and its hoofs got deformed. I shot her too low in the head with a .22 long rifle. She went backwards while a gallon of blood spurted from her nostrils. It was horrible. When she settled enough that I could get in a second shot, I got it into her brain. I learned after that to draw an X from ear to eye and shoot at the intersection. If you shoot between the eyes as they always tell you, you just go under the brain and bust-up the nasal cavity which makes a lot of blood but does not put them down humanly. I was not even a teenager at the time. I killed lots of dogs that people did not want or had mange so bad they would make you vomit. I went all the way up to elephant in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. I shot a tuskless calfless cow as part of a culling operation. Made a side brain shot with a .375 H & H magnum using 300 grain tungsten carbide bullets I loaded myself. Don't really want to kill anything anymore but I am very pro hunting. I just have gotten to the point where life is more precious. I grew up with animals dying and being killed. I just thought it was part of the norm. As you say, I don't mind taking off my big boy pants these days. BTW, I am not concerned about being belittled. If it is deserved, then it is justified. If it is not deserved, why would I care.</p><p></p><p>In regard to the blind calf, I have no more to say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1014116, member: 17767"] Bez, don't make too many assumptions. I am not as soft as you may think. When I was growing up on the farm in what was a poor farming county in Kentucky, I earned my reputation for being the animal executioner. When some poor farmer had an animal that he wanted put down, he would call my Dad and ask if I would do the honors. I was a good hunter, trapper and marksman. Spent the entire summer hunting and trapping groundhogs for the local folks. I earned anywhere from 15 to 30 cents bounty to get groundhogs out of farmers barns or hay fields. Even shot a couple horses. I remember the first big animal was a draft horse that got foundered on corn and its hoofs got deformed. I shot her too low in the head with a .22 long rifle. She went backwards while a gallon of blood spurted from her nostrils. It was horrible. When she settled enough that I could get in a second shot, I got it into her brain. I learned after that to draw an X from ear to eye and shoot at the intersection. If you shoot between the eyes as they always tell you, you just go under the brain and bust-up the nasal cavity which makes a lot of blood but does not put them down humanly. I was not even a teenager at the time. I killed lots of dogs that people did not want or had mange so bad they would make you vomit. I went all the way up to elephant in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. I shot a tuskless calfless cow as part of a culling operation. Made a side brain shot with a .375 H & H magnum using 300 grain tungsten carbide bullets I loaded myself. Don't really want to kill anything anymore but I am very pro hunting. I just have gotten to the point where life is more precious. I grew up with animals dying and being killed. I just thought it was part of the norm. As you say, I don't mind taking off my big boy pants these days. BTW, I am not concerned about being belittled. If it is deserved, then it is justified. If it is not deserved, why would I care. In regard to the blind calf, I have no more to say. [/QUOTE]
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