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bambuino

bambuino

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I live at ground zero where these animals were imported and released upon the lands. Originally introduced to control the exploding rat population, the sugar barons were too freaking stupid to recognize that mongoose are active at day and rats at night. Soon these animals were released elsewhere. However, a rather savvy territorial forester tossed all of them overboard as the ship steamed for another island. Today, when one of these animals are sited on that island, they basically call out the SWAT team. These Herpestes have wrought untold destruction upon the native avifauna, from seashore to snowline.

Just another example of the many follies foisted upon my people.

I shoot on sight, at every available opportunity.

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Short story time ...

When I was stationed in Hawaii, the Infantry men would cut the lid of a can about 7/8 of the way around when they opened it with a P38. Then after they ate the contents they would bend the lid back inside the can till it was half an inch or so inside the can. Throw the can on the ground and guess who would come and stick his head in the can for a free (but deadly) meal?

Cold but effective and worth knowing if you are ever starving and want to catch a squirrel with a tin can. You see what works on Mongoose also works on squirrels in this case. For squirrels tack the can down to a board and bait with peanut butter lean the board against a tree, open end down.

I don't know why this made me think of that.
 
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Just another example of the many follies foisted upon my people.
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By whom?

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The "Folly Foisters" of course. Kidding aside I am curious too.
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Can trace it back to the New England missionaries as the earliest arrivals here, proselytizing with their message of everlasting life. Quite effective in filling the pews, as us heathens were dropping like flies from grippe, smallpox, &c. All the stuff that today would be typically shrugged off or vaccinated against. Across the Kingdom, Sundays basically became "Super Spreader Sunday." This led to the loss of the ai kapu, and total collapse of the religio-socio-economic structure within a decade. Follow that with plantation economies that too would collapse due to scorched-earth management policies. The portent of universal suffrage for all peoples of the Kingdom would lead the sons of those same New England missionaries to create a false flag situation resulting in the landing of US Marines, the imprisonment of our leaders and the dismantling of our government. Protests against annexation were widespread. The petition against annexation was never presented to the US Congress. My great-grandfather, his brothers and their sons all signed on September 11, 1897. Throughout the first half of the 20th century advertisements circulated widely across America encouraging people to move here, to effect a demographic shift for the eventual push for statehood.

This might be a bit much to grasp, but try this. Imagine Canada voting in their Parliament to annex their neighbor to the south because it would be strategically advantageous for their bottom line, no matter what their neighbor to the south might think about it. In the US Congress this would be called a "Joint Resolution", and had little to do with diplomacy, rather is all about colonial imperialism.

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This might be a bit much to grasp, but try this

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This part RIGHT HERE is where you lost me. You have absolutely no clue what another man at the far end of your keyboard can or can not grasp.

That said, the story of Hawaii has been repeated COUNTLESS times throughout history. There is not a soul here whose ancestors have not been subjugated by some other people at some time in history. My people are also Island people. Ireland to be specific. If you would like to stop feeling sorry for yourself and walk a while in another ETHNIC groups shoes ... Study on that history of oppression... It goes back to the Romans...

One thing I have learned in these many years, people who want to get ahead today, do not today wallow in the sorrows and abuses of yesterday, neither do they blame those they meet today for the sins of their grandfathers.

But politics and religion ... GENERALLY A BAD IDEA

Ohana bra... ohana

Aloha
 
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My father did just over two years “forced labor” under German occupation. He had just turned 11 years old. If I told you that it was the most difficult period of his, or my mother’s life, or our ancestors lives, and that I personally hold anything close to an unwavering grudge because of it, I’d be lying. Just “my two pennies worth.”
 
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Nice Kill bambuino! I bet they're tough little varmints.
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Tough indeed. A grazing head shot, offhand at about 20 yds, followed by 10 seconds (lifetime) of frantically unloading my mag getting it to stay down. Going back to thorax shots. Taken with a PP750 in .22 Jumbo Heavies giving ~16ft/lbME. I have taken great joy of late to find my ability to shoot had not been lost. And then some days I wanna throw up.
 
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Nice Kill bambuino! I bet they're tough little varmints.
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Tough indeed. A grazing head shot, offhand at about 20 yds, followed by 10 seconds (lifetime) of frantically unloading my mag getting it to stay down. Going back to thorax shots. Taken with a PP750 in .22 Jumbo Heavies giving ~16ft/lbME. I have taken great joy of late to find my ability to shoot had not been lost. And then some days I wanna throw up.
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This is the nature of man. We must eat. To eat we must kill (or have someone do it for us). The man who kills to eat or because other responsibilities demand it, while still caring for the animal who feeds him or which must needs be put down, that man understands things the rest of the "grocery store" people will never know. There is a certain aspect to hunting which awakens in us a light that went out among our fellows long ago. The responsibility to do the task with the utmost efficiency is a heavy burden, but that concern you feel is honorable, that is what proves you share this life with other creatures in the way that any apex predator should.

You will shoot better next time. I feel your pain. It was a righteous kill of a pest that will not take any more song birds. If you want to honor him more put him out where the alala can get him.


 
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