Spear Chunking in Alabama

[trof]

I actually know this knucklehead.


The Spear Hunting Museum, which opened quietly in December 2006, is as much about its founder as it is about spear hunting. The founder is Gene Morris, who proudly calls himself "The Greatest Living Spear Hunter in the World." He drives a Chevy Blazer that he purchased, according to the museum's curator, Sharon Henson, because it was the only car with a blank tailgate on which he could have painted, "The Greatest Living Spear Hunter in the World." Morris's other nickname is "Spear Chunker," which is written on his hats, on the labels that are affixed to his camos, and on the license plate on the front of his car.

Morris, a retired Air Force colonel, has killed close to 400 animals using only spears. "I stopped hunting with guns in 1968," he told us, "basically because it had just gotten too easy." Morris went from guns to bow hunting, to hunting with two-handed spears, to hunting with one spear in each hand, killing two animals at once. He's accomplished that feat 17 times thus far.

We asked Morris why he felt that there was a need for a spear hunting museum, or for spear hunting in general. He told us that he believes that hunting is under attack from special interest groups and from "bleeding hearts that think that hunters are just out to satisfy a kill instinct." Spear hunting, according to Morris, "is an expansion of hunting. They're out to stop all hunting, and I'm out to expand it."
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/news/16325

[DS1]

1. His own actions contradict his message

If it's not about satisfying a kill instinct, he should be doing it easily with a gun, and not caring about the 'sport'.

[trof]

2. He's SUCH a dork. And a repug, natch.

[ulysses]

3. there are upsides to this.

At least he won't be blowing thirteen-year-olds away when a branch snags the trigger on his spear.

[trof]

4. True.

On the other hand, he probably won't spear himself in the foot either.
But one can hope?

[ulysses]

5. dare him to kill three animals at once.

That might work.