[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

Meh, I just ask if they were good sportsmen and used bows, if they thanked the deer for giving them their food, and if they plan on using the entire thing ... or if they were lazy disrespectful folk using those easy weapons.

That sentiment certainly wouldn't go over well up here. There's more to hunting than what weapon you use. While I imagine this isn't all true, the general attitude up here is that bow users are the yuppies of hunters that sit in their tree-stand with a cup of coffee and wait for something to wander by or follow the lure they put down. Meanwhile, the big-game hunters are up at dawn, tracking animals over mountains and across rivers etc, and waiting for the right moment to shoot (and 99.9% of the time you only get one shot). Then you need to process the carcass and get as much meat and such as you can and high-tail it out of there before the bears show up to claim what's left. (I'm not a hunter myself, this is what I hear.) What makes someone a hunter is more how they go about it than what weapon they choose.

Back to Thanksgiving...

Alternate meals we've had have been Taco Pizza, and swapping out the turkey for turkey burgers. I had intended to make an easy dinner with my sister, but she figured may as well have all the rest of it, too, so we had dressing, candied yams, cranberry sauce, and some kind of Jewish loaf that I forget the name of.