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Carey Price Hath Slain The Hellhound
Today's installment of "What NHL Players are Killing Instead of Playing Hockey" finds Canadiens goalie Carey Price hunting in northern B.C. He bagged this coyote, looking less than dignified in death, and tweeted it out....
West Virginia Won't Let Its Mascot Kill Things With His School-Issued Musket Anymore
Yesterday we brought you West Virginia, in video form: the WVU mascot killing a black bear with his musket, while the fight song played and the hunters whooped and hollered....
Robin Yount Shot Dale Sveum In The Ear While Quail Hunting
Baseball's winter meetings haven't been a huge source of excitement so far this year. The Nationals made a splash by signing Dan Haren, but the big names like Josh Hamilton and Zack Greinke are still waiting to be snapped up, and no blockbuster trades have happened....
West Virginia Student Mascot Shoots A Bear; Bear Falls Out Of A Tree; Everyone Hollers
According to the YouTube description, this is Jonathan Kimble, the senior who's spending this year as the Mountaineer, WVU's (human) mascot. The costume includes coonskin cap, buckskin jacket, and a usually-unloaded musket. It's black bear season and Kimble proved, at the expense of a bear driven ...
You Should Read This Before You Go Bigfoot Hunting
The Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo is exactly what it sounds like: a sasquatch convention. Though most of the amateur cryptozoologists are in it to document and preserve, surely there are some rogues out that who would love nothing so much as a Bigfoot head above their mantel. So Peter Wiemer, founder...
David Booth Hath Slain The Goatbeast
Some NHL players are spending their lockout in European leagues. Canucks winger David Booth? Well, he killed that....
Hunter Accidentally Shoots Girlfriend, Says He Was Aiming For Hog
Ohio or Florida? Florida. The woman is listed in serious condition, and the man is probably thinking he should have used a different excuse. [WKMG, h/t TheCarlosRuizSpanishEnglishDictionary]...
Precocious And Horrifying Four-Year-Old Kills Two Deer With Shotgun
Ohio or Florida? Trick question; it's Virginia, one of the few states that doesn't have a minimum age for hunting. Little James Futrell, returns after winter break having grown up faster than his pre-kindergarten classmates. He has stalked the beast, and bathed in its blood....
Swedish Golf Course Hires Hunter To Shoot Two Fairway-Ruining Piglets Dead
"Last night the foraging fun had run its course for two of the eight piglets when they were shot dead by a hunter on the approach to the fifth hole. The whole thing 'took fifteen minutes' according to Ottoson, and it is hoped it will be enough to avoid any more from having to be shot. 'We couldn't...
Brock Lesnar Blowing Away Prairie Dogs Has Very Little To Do With Michael Vick
You may have seen some whining and bitching when this video of Brock Lesnar taking out prairie dogs with what appears to be the BFG 9000 from Doom hit the web. We don't really want to get into moral equivalency arguments about hunting and dogfighting and wanton slaughter of semi-sentient beings. B...
This Is A Story About A Bald Eagle Dropping A Deer On Power Lines In Montana
If you're wondering what caused a Wednesday morning power outage in East Missoula, Montana, worry no longer because "NorthWestern Energy officials confirm that a baby fawn, dropped by a bald eagle" was to blame....
Guilty Verdict For Luring Bear With Pic-A-Nic Basket
A Pennsylvania man was fined $6800 for illegally using donuts to bait and kill a 700-lb. black bear last year. He'll also lose his hunting permit for three years, plenty of time to think about his Boo-Boo. [Post-Gazette]...
Who Wants To See Jordan Shipley Stick His Hands In A Mutilated Deer Carcass?
Yeah, it's gross, but the Texas receiver likes his hunting. Click and be horrified to learn where your dinner came from. (Not safe for the queasy.) [More photos @ Frathouse Sports]...
Gyrocopter Decapitation Is One Way To Kick Off Hunting Season
Arguments have begun in the trial of an animal rights activist who decapitated a fox hunt supporter with his gyrocopter. I have never written a more metal sentence....
You Are Now Officially Less Of A Man
This woman took down an 11-foot alligator with a crossbow. I can only assume she proceeded to tear its still-beating heart out of its chest with her teeth. [LA Times]...
Golf Course Hunting Gives New Meaning To Notching A Birdie
A golf course in northern Indiana has a geese problem. Specifically, there's too many of them, honking and crapping everywhere. The city council's solution? Golfers with guns....
You Say 'Monster Pig,' I Say 'Fred'
I could be wrong about this, but I think hunters would be less likely to thoughtlessly pump bullets into animals if they knew they had names. For instance, that giant pig that the 11-year-old killed? Would it have been so easy to pull the trigger (9 times) if the enormous animal had been wearing a n...
Hog Kid Gets Swiftboated ... We Suppose It Was Inevitable
The legend of Hogzilla II ... was it all a hoax? Did 11-year-old Jamison Stone really down a 1,000-pound feral pig in the Alabama woods, or was he home watching The Andy Griffith Show that day? As a couple of commenters pointed out yesterday, the size of said pig may have been via Photoshop. And in ...
Of Hogs And Men
Shooting a giant wild hog: Is it sport, or murder? We figured that it would only be a matter of hours before our young hog hunter, Jamison Stone, began receiving hate mail. We just didn't know the letters would be so entertaining....
Kevin Kolb Is Going To Be So Jealous
It took 9 shots and 3 hours (that had to be pleasant for the animal), but the end result is a sense of pride for an 11-year-old and a truckload of pork. Young Jamison Stone killed a 9-foot, 1051 pound wild hog in Alabama....