Comments on: Take a Young Person Hunting http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/03/30/take-a-young-person-hunting/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Dominique R. Poirier http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/03/30/take-a-young-person-hunting/comment-page-1/#comment-117517 Dominique R. Poirier Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:09 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=3659#comment-117517 As I have been gunsmith for sometimes, I believe that hunting has more chance to be a lasting activity or sport if handed on from generation to generation. From personal experience, I believe also that it is not that obvious for a young man, or woman, to spontaneously buy a gun and then decide to chase the rabbit or else; unless there is an obvious need to hunt for survival purpose, of course. That’s something that has to be taught, I think; and that claims some affective closeness between the student and his teacher. Well, it’s a personal opinion that certainly claims further discussion. Now, the last sentence of your post somehow calls for a joke that spontaneously got through my mind as I read it. Perhaps hunting and fishing would win hearts easier if it consisted in inflicting pain and death on nature’s ugly and guilty creatures. Say, perhaps would this make the step more compelling, or spontaneous… As I have been gunsmith for sometimes, I believe that hunting has more chance to be a lasting activity or sport if handed on from generation to generation. From personal experience, I believe also that it is not that obvious for a young man, or woman, to spontaneously buy a gun and then decide to chase the rabbit or else; unless there is an obvious need to hunt for survival purpose, of course.

That’s something that has to be taught, I think; and that claims some affective closeness between the student and his teacher.

Well, it’s a personal opinion that certainly claims further discussion.

Now, the last sentence of your post somehow calls for a joke that spontaneously got through my mind as I read it.
Perhaps hunting and fishing would win hearts easier if it consisted in inflicting pain and death on nature’s ugly and guilty creatures.
Say, perhaps would this make the step more compelling, or spontaneous…

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