john250
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If this thread was on the front page of the NY Times...? Or on 60 Minutes?
I understand there are unique problems in raising cattle out on the open range. But I am a cattleman and I have had my share of wild ones through the years. I sympathize. The 99% of people who aren't cattlemen are going nuts on this one. And they are thinking cattle=cruelty even though we know that isn't true outside of isolated cases.
Whether shot penetrates the skin or doesn't is almost irrelevant. Let someone get video of a cowboy firing a shotgun at a bovine and we will see that video 10,000 times. It won't matter if the bovine is injured or not--the damage (in public perception) is done when the hammer comes down on the cartridge.
If necessity requires these methods, I would never, ever breathe a word of it. SSS.
We are in a world of hurt in this business. We have powerful, influential enemies who are always looking for more evidence that we operate in a corrupt system which peddles poisonous products to unsuspecting consumers.
I'm not condemning anyone, but I'd just as soon see this thread locked and deleted.
I understand there are unique problems in raising cattle out on the open range. But I am a cattleman and I have had my share of wild ones through the years. I sympathize. The 99% of people who aren't cattlemen are going nuts on this one. And they are thinking cattle=cruelty even though we know that isn't true outside of isolated cases.
Whether shot penetrates the skin or doesn't is almost irrelevant. Let someone get video of a cowboy firing a shotgun at a bovine and we will see that video 10,000 times. It won't matter if the bovine is injured or not--the damage (in public perception) is done when the hammer comes down on the cartridge.
If necessity requires these methods, I would never, ever breathe a word of it. SSS.
We are in a world of hurt in this business. We have powerful, influential enemies who are always looking for more evidence that we operate in a corrupt system which peddles poisonous products to unsuspecting consumers.
I'm not condemning anyone, but I'd just as soon see this thread locked and deleted.