Grammys Corgi Country

I mentioned hunters yesterday when talking about our quail. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against hunting in general, I just don’t like hunters that aren’t responsible people. As I mentioned, we have a LOT of land around us, but some people just aren’t very thoughtful of others…

If they drove past us a mile or so up the road to hunt, then it wouldn’t be a problem, but gunshots at 5:30 to 6 in the morning on a weekend is really irritating. Also, shooting toward someone’s property is stupid and down right dangerous. We have horses out in our pastures, and dogs in our yards that could be hit by a stray bullet.

We have even had people shoot out the mirrors in our truck, and one group of kids who were hunting on the edge of our front pasture, shot at the tree in our front yard. If they had missed the tree, the bullet would have gone through the big picture window and into our living room. When my hubby went out and yelled at them, they shot at the ground in front of him!!!

Of course, as far out as we are from town, they were long gone by the time the police arrived. It is a good thing that my husband is a Christian because he was NOT a happy camper and he won a sharp-shooter award while in the Air Force.

I don’t believe in gun control, but I wish people were more responsible and would have to take classes or at least that parents would start at a really young age to teach kids to respect guns (not use them when real young, but respect them) and their power, and responsibility when they have any kind of weapon in their hands. We did that with our kids who hunt legally and responsibly now for their own family’s supplemental food.

The main rules we had for them were:

1. You only shoot at an animal if you will clean and eat it or if it is dangerous to you or others… as in rattlesnakes on the property (We have had a dog that died from being bitten).

2. You always look at the surrounding area to be sure nothing is near that could be accidentally hit (oil pipes for instance).

3. You only hunt in uninhabited areas.

If you are a hunter, please be responsible toward others. If you are a parent, please teach responsibility and respect in general, to your kids in all areas of their lives and they will, hopefully, remember it if they do go hunting… It’s a good lesson for all of life anyway!

Have a fruitful day…