I'm not talking about setting cats on fire... but you didn't burn ants with a magnifying glass, or launch crickets and grasshoppers as payload on a water rocket?
...or go fishing, or shoot raccoons raiding your garbage and/or garden, or kill field rats just for existing?
The magnifying glass, yes. I never graduated to animals though, even pests like frogs, squirrels or snakes.
I've never been in such a sinking ship of a group before. Sweet Jesus. I'm jumping ship if I can or else I'll be stuck bailing out water with a cup while the whole thing does down.
Rodents are fair game for small critters. Popping prairie dogs with a .22 on a ranch kind of sounds like fun. No idea if raccoons are rodents but really who cares, those and possums.
Snapping turtles in a pond are fun too and take much better marksmanship. They stick their head out of the water to get air every now and then, so you have to be quick and accurate to pop them in their little demonic head.
See now, I was the one rounding up the critters to make pets of them. Anole lizards, crawfish, birds, squirrels, flying squirrels, these were all animals in my possession at least once. Many of them were rescues who were hurt in some way and then released, but I had Abu the flying squirrel for over 10 years. They should have just let me get a dog.
I was trying to keep that part of my identity private. Jesus, I thought the drunk thread was the part of the board to come to when I was done dealing with ridiculous, insane, irrational, completely wrong, misinformed, godawful opinions like that somehow cats are not wonderful, amazing creatures in their own right that are hilarious, cuddly, soft, adorable, ferocious, sassy, outrageous lil lovebugs. Dogs are great too, though. Now you're all going to look at my cat. Here he is being dignified AF: Spoiler Here he is being adorable AF with his heart butt: Spoiler Here he is being goofy AF: Spoiler Feel free to crosspost this in the MGTOW thread.
To each their own, but I think these little guys snuggling with me while I watch the Cubs-Indians game is pretty awesome.
Still do this. When I go fishing I have my .22 pistol on my side. Damn turtles always try to steal my bait (I prefer cutbait for bass and catfish). I'll give them the first one but if they come back then it's open season. When I was a kid I was into making rockets. The kind with the little engines that you're supposed to fire off then they parachute back down. Of course I quickly got bored and started modifying the rockets for one time use, bigger engines and less weight. The aerodynamics were suspect at best. Frogs, lizards, crickets, the occasional small snake were all fair game as test pilots. I learned marksmanship with my Daisy Red Ryder and whatever birds came near me. Got the hang of Kentucky windage real quick. I could bend it like backham before that was a thing.