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benEzra

(12,148 posts)
8. Market hunting was the reason our modern hunting regulations were passed.
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 08:20 AM
Aug 2015

Basically, hunting now is an individual activity, with limits set to a family's needs rather than a food market's. Back then, hunting was also a commercial endeavour, with professional harvesters each shooting thousands or tens of thousands of birds a year to sell commercially for their meat or feathers. It was commercial harvesting, not people hunting for their own food, that drove the passenger pigeon to extinction and almost wiped out a lot of other species.

the best home defense weapon [View all] Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 OP
Black powder, I assume HassleCat Aug 2015 #1
Geez. That's probably WHY there aren't so many waterfowl around any more... PatrickforO Aug 2015 #2
Yes, it was called "market hunting" HassleCat Aug 2015 #3
Market hunting was the reason our modern hunting regulations were passed. benEzra Aug 2015 #8
Thanks to Ducks Unlimited (the other DU), duck numbers have re-bounded... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #10
Back in the day they used to have these things mounted on the bow of a large rowboat tularetom Aug 2015 #4
They have one, with the gun still on it, at Mystic Seaport DonP Aug 2015 #5
saw one in my (sorta)youth w0nderer Aug 2015 #7
truthfully, I always thought it was a dog. hollysmom Aug 2015 #6
Flamethrower -- if it's spiders Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #9
Florida's Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge, the nation's first (TR), in Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #11
I agree Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #12
Maybe a pattern competition? Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #13
If people MUST keep a weapon in their home, they should be aware of the risk. SecularMotion Aug 2015 #14
Duh Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #15
If you want to post jokes, please use the correct forum SecularMotion Aug 2015 #16
Is your hair shirt tailored or off the rack? nt hack89 Aug 2015 #17
So are there no cartoon groups for you? beardown Aug 2015 #18
The Emperor is pleased sarisataka Aug 2015 #19
I saw those Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #20
How about you practice what you preach, SecMo. beevul Aug 2015 #21
Does the word hyprocrisy ring a bell? GGJohn Aug 2015 #23
If people have a vehicle, GGJohn Aug 2015 #22
I'm really leaning toward a SBRd AR in 300blkout for a new home defense rifle. ileus Aug 2015 #24
Just purchased an upper Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #25
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