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From: edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com (Ed Matthews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Falconry...
Message-ID: <42476@vrdxhq.verdix.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:44:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.002351.25330@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: edm@vrdxhq.UUCP (Ed Matthews)
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In article <1990Nov17.002351.25330@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx) writes:

> [anti-hunting comment deleted]
>wounded.  What sport is there in that?

WRONG NEWSGROUP for this discussion.

>And, if hawk makes its kill,
>it will be quick and merciful...

I saw five minutes of footage last night of a Gyr taking a Sharp-Tailed Grouse
that was none too quick, nor merciful.  It was brutal.  Such is nature.

>respitory paralysis after eating the "waste" of the shotgun (i.e. lead
>poisoning).

Give me a break.  Who uses lead pellets anymore?  Everyone I know reloads
with steel pellets and factory loads come with steel pellets. 
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Ed Matthews                                                edm@verdix.com
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