instead of Uggs, mukluk boots

[TrekDianna]

I guess what I disagree with is the macho posturing part of hunting, but that's a very small subset and I think is played up by the media. If you kill it and eat it and happen to decide to have its head taxidermied, I have no problem with it. (Keeps the deer population down--my only concern would be chronic wasting disease!)

Agreed. Last year there were so many photos on FB of guys with their just killed deer etc that a few friends and I started posing with our kale, leeks and other things just hunted down at the grocery store. Posing with a photo of what you killed just irritates me. Yes, it's the posturing. You killed it with a weapon, you did not wrestle it to the ground in a feat of strength. I have nothing against hunting for food, I do not like trophy hunting.

[shootingstar]

Last year there were so many photos on FB of guys with their just killed deer etc that a few friends and I started posing with our kale, leeks and other things just hunted down at the grocery store.

It's a great parody TrekDianna.

lph- I got a response from the cyclist-blogger several hundred km. north of us. Her mukluks are made from real animal hide. They are fine in drier snow and temperatures as cold as -30degrees C. Not that I would be tramping around in them over an hr. under those temp. She's pretty hardy herself --she cycles often the winter on her studded tires. Brings her young children along.

[Pax]

Agreed. Last year there were so many photos on FB of guys with their just killed deer etc that a few friends and I started posing with our kale, leeks and other things just hunted down at the grocery store. Posing with a photo of what you killed just irritates me. Yes, it's the posturing. You killed it with a weapon, you did not wrestle it to the ground in a feat of strength. I have nothing against hunting for food, I do not like trophy hunting.

That is too funny! Next hunting season you could do a slide show, you in camo stalking the aisles or in a field of veggies.