MetaFilter posts tagged with hunting

Inside a bloody cultural tradition.

kanuck — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:49:49 -0800

TV star. Amusement park attraction. Mine sweeper. Stew meat. Funded by SGI & Netscape founder James Clark, award-winning documentary The Cove goes undercover for an inside look at the brutal slaughter of dolphins in the Japanese town of Taiji. Previously.

My Other Car is a Guide Dog

cloudscratcher — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:49:33 -0800

We're familiar with blindsight, and seen a blind man navigate a cluttered hallway (wmv file). A blind man with a loaded rifle seems slightly scarier. But if you see the blind guy driving a 2010 Ford Mustang, it's probably best to yield.

Fancy some endangered fetus soup?

booknerd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:04:20 -0800

Endangered pangolins (scaly anteaters) have been heavily hunted in China to supply a large demand for food, particularly fetus soup (warning: graphic photos), and Chinese medicine. "Proceedings of the workshop on trade and conservation of pangolins native to South and Southeast Asia" [PDF] a report from TRAFFIC (Wildlife Trade Network) was released yesterday. More on pangolins previously on MetaFilter

Let's get this thing goin' before cats start dyin'.

miss lynnster — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:23:28 -0800

Yo. This is Ray. He's representing P-Town. Videoing from the road. He needs to get a job, dog.

Requiem for the steppenwolf

hortense — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:35:46 -0800

The Berkutchi is a falconer who hunts with the Golden Eagle Music

Only Coon Hounds Are Allowed To Be Buried

netbros — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:38:53 -0800

American Houndsman is a site dedicated to showcasing vintage hound hunting. Back when hunters didn't have all the fancy equipment and gadgets of today, it was a time that hunting was simple. Fetch the dogs, the light, and the gun and off to the woods for a night's hunt. Features vintage photographs of beloved coon dawgs, even the ones still learning, and stories of hunting dogs in days gone by. There's even a coon dog cemetery where the best of the best are laid to rest. A group of solemn men, dressed in black mourning coats and hip boots, wearing carbide lamps on their heads stood beside a mound of soil and a freshly dug hole. A hunting horn sounded and the bay of hounds filled the air. Four similarly dressed men walked slowly toward the gathered crowd, a small wooden box carried between them. When the box was lowered into the ground one of the men spoke The Coon Dog Eulogy. He spoke with tears of fifteen years, how his dog and him traveled about His dog up and died, he up and died After twenty years he still grieves -- "Mr. Bojangles," by Jerry Jeff Walker

The Faroe (Fær Øer) pilot whales slaughter.

elpapacito — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:10:50 -0800

The Faroe (Fær Øer) pilot whales slaughter (warning, crude pictures). The Faroe Islands (prev) were nominated in year 2007 by National Geographic as one of the most appealing tourism location in the world. The inhabitans have traditionally hunted pilot whales and other cetaceans for their own sustainment, but according also to their own national statistics (PDF) , the whale hunting business is no longer a significant factor. Some ongoing online petition is trying to put a final end to this practice.

Orangutan hunting fish with spear

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:05:34 -0800

Yes, hoomon, we cans.

Boy, you're going to bring home some meat this summer!

blue_beetle — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:07:14 -0800

Squirrel: It's what's for dinner.

The Comet Hunters

spock — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:10:23 -0800

The Story of a Comet Hunter (see also his web page which contains a link to the story of his discover of Comet Seki-Lines in 1962). Visual comet hunting has a long and intriguing history. Today visual hunters are adapting their ways to make visual discoveries in an age of automated searches. The amateur can still win. Now, ANYONE can discover a comet(?) Or perhaps 1000. A Guide for SOHO Comet Hunters. More SOHO and Sungrazing Comet Links. [Previously]

wow - no more hanging out on craggy alpine pinnacles for me!

madamjujujive — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:29:57 -0800

Dramatic footage of golden eagles hunting mountain goats. (alerts: rather gruesome; voiceover in Spanish)

Guga

brautigan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:13:02 -0800

"The ile is full of wild fowls, and when the fowls has their birds ripe, men out of the parish of Ness in Lewis sail and tarry there seven or eight days and to fetch with them home their boatfull of dry wild fowls with wild fowl feathers" - Donald Monro, Archdeacon of the Isles, 1549. The men sail again, as they have done since the 15th Century, this month.

Coming soon in Teriyaki!

Tacos Are Pretty Great — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:03:29 -0800

Season on impact.

Skin

Miko — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:05:32 -0800

"In a close-knit Chesapeake Bay community, the world’s fastest muskrat skinners face off in a truly cutthroat competition at the National Outdoor Show. One lucky young lady gets to be their queen." [Warning: Fiddle tunes!] Muskrat Lovely, a documentary about the conflation of the world muskrat-skinning championships with the Miss Outdoors beauty competition. The film will air soon on the PBS program Independent Lens. Catch some of the brackish flavor of the Chesapeake Bay's traditional regional culture, including some muskrat recipes and skinning tips.. And don't miss the link to Everything Muskrat.

Whatever you do, DON’T fuck with Moby.

jason's_planet — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:34:51 -0800

During the 19th century, thousands of men took to the seas to hunt for whales. The indigenous peoples of the Arctic practiced whaling for several millennia before that. Technological change and changes in mores have reduced the whaling industry to a heavily regulated shadow of what it used to be. But it hasn’t disappeared altogether. Even now, at the dawn of the 21st century, ships prowl the seas in search of a spout or a gigantic fin. A few months ago, Outside magazine published an account of a whale hunt aboard the Norwegian ship Sofie.

Thooo-ugg!

exogenous — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:46:19 -0800

Renegade wild hogs captured using dogs and bare hands. Greg Whidden captures the hogs from a nature preserve where they're causing environmental damage.

Don't they use bombs anyway?

furiousxgeorge — Thu, 04 May 2006 11:43:06 -0800

Al-Zarqawi can't shoot. Lynch said the images he showed indicate that al-Zarqawi "tends to have a problem" with mastering his own weapons system and with finding capable and competent aides. "Why he's their leader, I don't know."

Thou Shall Not Kill On Sunday

Secret Life of Gravy — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:03:56 -0800

No Hunting on the Sabbath, Y'all: RALEIGH, N.C. - A longtime lobbyist for the National Rifle Association has stepped down from the job because he can't support the group's endorsement of Sunday hunting in North Carolina.

Killing Tatanka ... Bufflo ...

Wulfgar! — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:30:20 -0800

The hunting of American Bison got a renewal today. The first hunt of the buffalo, in 15 years, began with a Belgrade, MT, boy killing a bull with 4 shots, shortly after the hunt began. The 15 year hiatus on hunting Bison in Montana was contentious, if not downright nasty, but that's over now. Montana has allowed Bison hunting outside Yellowstone park, and it's been a media show. Of course, this really pisses some folks off, to which hunters claim, "It's like the hunter's become the hunted". The mountain west of the US has become a battle ground of flowing ideas, with man against nature, and man against man. The Endangered Species Act, the very thing that has lead us to this event, is under siege. People begin to notice when critters die. Welcome to Bison Hunt, 101.

Yet another reason to move to Canada

DrJohnEvans — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:42:56 -0800

The Beer Hunter I was jealous when New York got subway stations marked on Google Maps, but this more than makes up for it.

Hunt Like a Caveman

maxsparber — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:15:33 -0800

The atlatl. Maybe you're a little too old fashioned for black powder rifles. You're feeling a little too rugged to build your own siege weapon. You don't even really like weapons as newfangled as the blow gun or the obsidian dagger. Well, friends, then the the atlatl is for you. It might have driven the wooly mammoth to extinction, and soon, at last, you may be able to use it to kill stuff that isn't extinct.

Killed Her a B'ar when She Was Only Eight

PlanoTX — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:15:05 -0800

The first bear kill of the Maryland hunting season was made by an 8-year-old girl, notes Joel Achenbach's blog. It's quite an interesting news story that makes one wonder what values many of us are teaching our kids these days. Just as interesting, however, are the comments, which at least in one case deals with gender stereotyping: I think that it is important for our kids and especially our girls to experience life and if part of life is killing game, then so be it. After all, if our girls just sit in their little bubble wearing pretty dresses and playing Bach on the piano, we may just end up with lots of Condi Rice's (re: Eugene Robinson's Op Ed). The blog got lots of comments -- many more than my measly entry will.

Please turn off all cameras before entering club

numlok — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:17:43 -0800

View the Pacific Walrus community at Alaska's Walrus Island State Game Sanctuary via their handy webcam. However, do your viewing soon as the camera will be going offline for several weeks starting tomorrow due to annual hunting by Alaskan Natives and their wishes for privacy . (yes, the animals in the last link are seals, but it illustrates why they don't want this broadcast live)

Cat Hunting

Fuzzy Monster — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:15:14 -0800

Wisconsin considers legalizing cat hunting. For the Sid Vicious in all of us.

Hunting Stilts?

TwelveTwo — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:11:07 -0800

Average accessories for your laptop computer. But I suppose Proporta has been expanding its target demographic lately with this device.