Robb Wolf hunting elk with a spear

[santaman2000]

...as a very active hunter I still don't like to see things die but die they must before we eat them...

Not 100% true. Stone crab are harvested (at least I think it's stone crab) for their claws only. One claw (the bigger one) is broken off for consumption while the still live crab is returned to the water to grow another claw for next year's harvest. It doesn't work if you take the wrong claw as they will then throw the other one off and die (that's their natural defense, to throw off one claw and escape while the predators go after the deserted claw)

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Mixed feeling here, but i think a club to the head would of ended it a bit quicker once it was down...

 

[northumbrian]

i think lobsters can throw off a claw too and grow a new one ?

 

[calgarychef]

This isn't a discussion about crabs, that's just silly and muddles the origional discussion.

 

[santaman2000]

This isn't a discussion about crabs, that's just silly and muddles the origional discussion.

Merely a response to your comment. If you didn't want to go there, why did you bring it up to begin with?

 

[Tengu]

Dogs, (a delicacy in many societies) dont worry about what they eat, its what makes them so sucessful.

We are a pretty similar sort of animal, hence the dogs latching onto us and becomming a sucessful parasite.

worrying about the animal is a pretty modern sort of luxury, isnt it?

 

[tomongoose]

I think they should of finished the elk of much quicker than they did but at least it wasn't in a cattle truck and abattoir for hours before it died. If you eat meat the reality is something has to die and you should aim for the quickest cleanest death you can. I personally wouldn't try with a spear as I don't think I could kill it cleanly enough but then I have never been with out food for more than a couple of days

 

[cbr6fs]

Dogs, (a delicacy in many societies) dont worry about what they eat, its what makes them so sucessful.

We are a pretty similar sort of animal, hence the dogs latching onto us and becomming a sucessful parasite.

worrying about the animal is a pretty modern sort of luxury, isnt it?

I do consider our dog part of the family, and when one of our dogs die it really is heart breaking.
But if the kids were starving and the dog couldn't bring in food then it'd be dog souvlaki for dinner.

Luckily the dog is a Jack Russell so i'm betting she'd bring in more food than the few mouthfuls we'd get eating her.

 

[calgarychef]

Merely a response to your comment. If you didn't want to go there, why did you bring it up to begin with?[/QUOTE

Well I dunno when was the last time you used an atlatl to kill a crab?? Or would you just aim for the claw? It's a video which includes killing by traditional means, it's not pretty so I suggest if you don't like the video definately dont' watch it.

 

[santaman2000]

Merely a response to your comment. If you didn't want to go there, why did you bring it up to begin with?[/QUOTE

Well I dunno when was the last time you used an atlatl to kill a crab?? Or would you just aim for the claw? It's a video which includes killing by traditional means, it's not pretty so I suggest if you don't like the video definately dont' watch it.

The video doesn't bother me (apart from it being obviously tame elk) The last time I killed a crab was by dropping him (her?) in boiling water.

 

[Tengu]

No, traditional hunting methods are seldom tidy.