Hunter’s Dream Job?

[MossyMO]

http://tribunist.com/lifestyle/hunt...-67k-job-to-shoot-wildlife-around-the-airport

[h=2]Hunter’s Dream Job? Atlanta Airport $67k Job to Shoot Wildlife Around the Airport.[/h]

 

[Account Deleted]

*exterminators dream job

 

[PrairieGhost]

Before I was retired I was offered $30K just for October to shoot deer in a large east coast city. Would had to do nothing but pull the trigger. City employees would body bag them and remove them. If I had been retired I would have done it. I guess animal rights people followed a guy around hoping to video something gruesome.

 

[Bed Wetter]

And, based on the photo, you'll get to do it with a $8,000 .50 BMG topped with what appears to be a $7,000 Hensoldt scope.

Edit: that's not a hensoldt. Not sure what it is.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Some of those are not all they are cracked up to be. I have killed a bunch of cranes for work. Had to watch them eat for two to three hours and it was hard to keep track of an individual in a flock. I used a heavy barrel 222 and full metal jackets. Worked from 5:00am to 8:00pm many days. Six weeks no days off. This was before Gortex and I got so wet and cold once skin started pealing off the front of my legs in the shower. Better than a desk job when your young.

 

[guywhofishes]

Some of those are not all they are cracked up to be. I have killed a bunch of cranes for work. Had to watch them eat for two to three hours and it was hard to keep track of an individual in a flock. I used a heavy barrel 222 and full metal jackets. Worked from 5:00am to 8:00pm many days. Six weeks no days off. This was before Vortex and I got so wet and cold once skin started peaking off the front of my legs in the shower. Better than a desk job when your young.

what was the logic behind shooting cranes? keep track of individual? what madness was that?

 

[Captain Ahab]

I'm having a hard time following that as well Ghost?

 

[gst]

Perhaps they were studying "sexual conflict"............

In 2009, Prum applied for and received a National Science Foundation grant for his study titled "Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia." (It has since been renamed "Conflict, Social Behavior and Evolution," according to NSF.) The money came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/mar/22/tweets/federal-government-funding-study-duck-penises/


This waterfowl kerfuffle erupted earlier this week, when the conservative website CNSNews.com published a story pulling back the curtain on a $384,949 grant from the National Science Foundation for a Yale University study looking at ducks’ sexual behavior and anatomy and the evolutionary consequences.

 

[PrairieGhost]

I'm having a hard time following that as well Ghost?

A number of different things, but I was acting as a tech at the time and not determining the goals as the lead biologist would. Some of the things I know is we needed to know diet to manage lands. So we shot a bird, dissected to inspect food items. Identified food items. Measured the bill, wing, leg to determine which subspecies used what part of the Platt River for staging. Then chemically digested the birds for lipid content. Birds gained about 1000 grams while staying on the Platt an average of about six weeks. This lipid gain gave them energy to migrate to the nesting grounds. Without weight gain they would reabsorb developing eggs and they were already in reproductive trouble. These studies hopefully helped biologists around Aransas National Wildlife Refuge where they winter, biologists at the International Crane Center on the Platt, and biologists in other staging areas in Canada and on the nesting grounds. Management decisions need data.
Collecting was done in different habitats. Harvested corn fields, pasture, alfalfa, hay lands, and native prairie which there was very little.

 

[gst]

Holy some folks are a bit touchy..........don;t know who though as no one signed it.

Thread: Hunter’s Dream Job?
Give it up. You're not funny. Or sarcastic. You're annoying. And dull. No one is laughing. Just pack it up and go away

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And for the fella posting the bad rep, I actually know Mossy Mo and get a chuckle out of the humor he posts daily somewhere else. Thought he may appreciate the govt spending hundreds of thousands to study how much a ducks pecker will stretch.

It is amazing actually.

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Try working the phrase "waterfowl genitalia" into your next conversations somehow....