Shooting greys?

[doxhope 2]

 

 

 

AND SOME SPORT

 

 

[zek 0]

I really love the first shot. Note the small scar behind his left eye. I've noticed this once on a dead seal - it was between the eyes, but slightly higher. I assumed it was the entry wound of a .22 or something similar. However, when I cleaned the skull, there was no mark on the bone. I then assumed the bullet had passed through the flesh, missing the actual skull - I doubt if this would kill the animal tho'. So back to the drawing board - maybe these scars are simply marks left from fights.

 

Zek.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

When I read the title I thought, " Partridges? Crows (We call Hoodie's 'Gray Crows' here. It's how people differentiate them from Rooks. Rooks is a name I don't hear used here) Or maybe squirrels? ". I never once thought of seals! Seals just haven't figured greatly in my life. Only remember seeing any once. And that was from high above, on a road in Scotland where we looked down at some on a distant sand bar. So those shots just blew me away! Water Dogs! Couldn't just take them home?

 

The thing behind it's eye? I honestly thought that must be it's ear! Don't seals have ears?

 

Anyway, people do shoot them. Most definately. Fishermen, anglers and fisherie owners will. They see them as vermin. That's why I'm so happy that I'm crazy about " Jethro Tull " and always have been

 

Ian Anderson, front man to that legendary band, owns a scottish island and there he runs a salmon farm. Of course, with so much fish concentrated close offshore, seals were attracted. His managers told him about this and he asked what's to do. " Well, " They said, " Shoot the b*stards! .22 rounds cost pennies! ". Ian considered this for a moment and asked, " Or? ". To which they rolled their eyes and threw up their hands; " Och, boss! " They moaned. " We could proof them out of the fisheries, using nets in the water to stop them reaching ye fish in the first place. But That would cost ye Millions of Pounds!!!!!! ".

 

Without hesitation, The Man said: " Get the nets in place. I'll pay! " RESPECT!

[Simoman 110]

Surely its the seals ear?

[ferret15 0]

yes it is its ear

 

http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsheets/a.../grey_seal.html

[zek 0]

yes it is its ear

 

 

Well, you learn something ever day!

 

I've included the story of the seal I mentioned (previously posted on a skull collecting group).

And btw, I've still got the skull. Ah, memories!

 

"I remember about 13 years ago, working as

temporary manager in a supermarket, in the West of Ireland.

One evening, after work, while exploring the

coastline I chanced upon a dead grey seal - very fresh and

with what looked like a bullet hole in his forehead.

Being unprepared and unequiped (shame on me), I made my

way to a nearby village (very rural), to purchase a

knife. The only shop open (it was after 8.00pm) was a

small grocery shop, but he didn't sell knives. He asked

me what I wanted it for, and being put in the spot,

I had to confess, "I want to cut the head off a

seal". You would have thought folk down there were

cutting seal heads off every day - he never flinched, but

reaching behind the meat counter, he produced the required

knife, and gave it to me. I offered to buy it, but he

told me just to leave it back with him when I was

finished. It took me a long time to remove the head, - a

lot of fat, and a saw would have been better, but I

managed, and returned the knife as promised. Now I had the

problem of where to keep the seal head (I wasn't going

home for another 5 days!). My landlady didn't seem the

type who would appreciate a seals' head in her

freezer, so I wrapped it in bin liners and put it in the

only place I could think of - the bottom of the

ice-cream freezer in the supermarket where I was working!

Thankfully no-one found it and I got it home sucessfully.

Interestingly, when the flesh was removed, I expected a bullet

hole in the skull - but there wasn't!

P.S. Seals are not the lightest of animals to try to

manoever into butchery position - I couldn't budge him!"

 

 

Zek.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

You would have thought folk down there were

cutting seal heads off every day - he never flinched, but

reaching behind the meat counter, he produced the required

knife, and gave it to me.

 

I cut the seals head off and put it in the

only place I could think of - the bottom of the

ice-cream freezer in the supermarket where I was working!

 

 

 

 

But Zek; Have ye never heard of Tommy Beirne then? Champion Dead Seal Decapitator of Lahinch?! Out on the west coast mate, that's bigger than GAA!