Would You Shoot This?

[Redge]

That doesn’t look like fun!
I do love to shoot though, so I am guessing I would get cajoled into shooting it.LOL


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[Ketchn]

market hunters hurt our beautiful country and the native animals terribly , extinction of the passenger pigeon is a prime example.
did the same thing with free range buffalo just for fun and about pushed them to extinction .
reduced heron numbers so significantly to make ladies hats out of the feathers ,,,,,,that we still reap the massive amount of laws in place to protect the migratory birds .
unregulated trapping and hunting and the use of weapons and such that were intended to wipe out entire populations is just unthinkable to me .
imagine taking a train ride across the great plains just to whack unsuspecting buffalo for fun by the hundreds if not thousands .
or the mass harvest of hundreds of white egrets to pull out the long plumes and then toss the birds to make hats .
unregulated trapping of muskrats until some bright person decided to import nutria to help cure the problem ...
the list is long and the toll was heavy
as far as wanting to discharge a huge shotgun goes , not me ....

[DockShootinJack]

Hard to make the nutria extinct here. I remember hearing of bounties paid for them in an attempt to reduce their numbers and the impact they have on the environment. Much like the asian carp and zebra mussles have gotten into the lakes this far up. Market hunting for food and survival I do not believe was a bad thing. It was when coupled with the greed of man that it tool an ominous and destructive path.

[Opie1]

There used to be one in the PPG limestone mine in my hometown. Was mounted on concrete and was used to shoot the rock to bring down the limestone for the loaders to pick up.

[DockShootinJack]

There used to be one in the PPG limestone mine in my hometown. Was mounted on concrete and was used to shoot the rock to bring down the limestone for the loaders to pick up.

Sounds pretty interesting.

[Opie1]

Sounds pretty interesting.

It was. PPG also injected water into the ground into the salt deposits. The brine was pumped to the plant to electrolysis cells to make sodium and chlorine. The sodium was reacted with the limestone to make soda ash for glass production. The chlorine was used to make phosgene. Plant is gone since the early 1970's. The is a small token production of certain chemicals now but nothing like it used to be.