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Monday, November 17, 2008
McCook Daily Gazette

Twelve-year-old Colton Sis of rural McCook poses with his first-ever deer -- a five-by-five mule deer he shot today on private land south of McCook. Colton's was the 301st deer checked in at the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office since deer firearm season opened Saturday morning; the season ends Sunday, Nov. 22. Sheriff Gene Mahon said hunters took 745 deer during last year's firearm season.

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  • I know I can expect a lot of negative responses from those who like to hunt...

    Just as my opinion will no doubt annoy many.. My seeing a CHILD smiling at KILLING a deer(or anything) has always annoyed me.. Putting a weapon of any kind in the hands of a CHILD, and teaching them to KILL, has never set well with me.. I personally think children shouldn't be allowed to hunt until they are much older, maybe 17 or 18, the legal age to kill another in war...

    And perhaps it wouldn't seem as bad, if at least some remorse at killing such a beautiful creature were on the childs face.. it would be a nice change, not that it makes it better to be SO PROUD to legally kill...

    I'm not totally anti-hunting, if one must hunt to survive, Or to lessen the animals that might otherwise die from starvation, wasting disease, or over population..

    -- Posted by i am moi on Mon, Nov 17, 2008, at 12:24 PM

  • i am moi:

    You will never understand it, your parents failed you. I have been hunting fishing and trapping since I was old enough to follow my brothers and Dad to the field or river. I shot my first duck, Pheasant, squirrel, rabbit, deer quail, coyote, caught muskrat, mink, beaver and coons Opossums along the Republican in Red willow county in the 70's. It is appropriate in every way to have children learn where there food comes from and to participate in the killing and processing of the game. There is no better life lesson.

    -- Posted by greb on Mon, Nov 17, 2008, at 10:48 PM

  • greb:

    You are welcome to your opinion.. It is my right to disagree with it, just as it was your right to disagree with mine..

    You are off base though, when you suggest my parents failed me.. Failure is in the one of the beholder I suspect..

    I could make this a back and forth thing, but I'm not going to..

    It would serve no end, as it seems you have a narrow view of what makes up "there is no better life lesson"..

    -- Posted by i am moi on Tue, Nov 18, 2008, at 11:42 AM
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