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[Jason Claxton]

Originally Posted by posie

Sooo, is kidknapping chopping bits off kids to make something else, Mack.?

What goats?

[Jason Claxton]

What about gnome-napping David, then you can send postcards and photos of it from around the world,that would be interesting

[tcvarlh]

I remember reading some 30 years ago about an African tribe that in 1940 still used flint points to their weapons. This tribe hunted Elephant. They killed the animals by the simple expedient of hurling their spears and arrows at the belly of the 'Pachyderm', thereby slashing the stomach wall. The animal was disembowelled and in attempting to escape tripped in it own intestines and fell, making the kill simpler. Brutal as it sounds it was a most effective hunting technique and most probably used by humans wherever Proboscidea where to be found and eaten. A head shot was never attempted as only the eye would give access to the brain. A secondary reason for the evisceration method was the spooling of guts prevented the animal from attacking the hunters.
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[freefeet]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

I remember reading some 30 years ago about an African tribe that in 1940 still used flint points to their weapons. This tribe hunted Elephant. They killed the animals by the simple expedient of hurling their spears and arrows at the belly of the 'Pachyderm', thereby slashing the stomach wall. The animal was disembowelled and in attempting to escape tripped in it own intestines and fell, making the kill simpler. Brutal as it sounds it was a most effective hunting technique and most probably used by humans wherever Proboscidea where to be found and eaten. A head shot was never attempted as only the eye would give access to the brain. A secondary reason for the evisceration method was the spooling of guts prevented the animal from attacking the hunters.
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Thank you for that. I do think that there's a lot of romanticising about the past, about how amazing we were and how effective our tools were, but i don't believe they were anything like as good as some people would make them out to be.

We didn't have the anti-hunting brigade bitching at us over every kill we made back then, complaining about the humaneness of our killing techniques, and most certainly stone-age people weren't at all concerned over how the animal suffered - they just needed to bring down some seriously dangerous animals without getting injured themselves in the process.

[freefeet]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

Still waiting for evidence of an elephant's skull being 'smashed' to minute fragment by your mega-nuclear broadheads, sunshine!

Jim

Now you're just resorting to being pathetic.

[posie]

Morning All....Has anybody seen my Camel?

[mrmack]

depends, did it have one hump or two ??????....mack

[david156]

the camels hiding!
It doesn't want to be caught by one of those mega nuclear broadheads!!!

[posie]

It's not my camel thats got the hump ! !..:d.:d

[mrmack]

whats it got then dear posie....mack