Xmas Note 1
Welcome to the week I get the least readers on our comics, every year. If you’re reading, thanks! I know the holidays involve people being away from the internets and stuff. I shall be too, a bit. Hence why I’m making these comics in advance and uploading them to update automatically.
Sales on The Deal have been slow so far, but picking up. Even got a review that’s pretty damn spiff. If you’re in the market for a book, some fiction to spice up this darkest week of the year, I suggest you pick it up in dead tree or Kindle format!
I know there are LOTS of people against “canned hunts,” but this looks like something I’d like to do here in Texas at a friend’s ranch. Wild boar here are vermin. They destroy crops, and they’re overrunning the state. I’d love to go on a driven Boar hunt here. If nothing else, Texas wild boar is tasty as shit.
Now lets hope the auto update doesn’t do something freakish as it has in the past. Heh.
Introduced wild boar, and feral swine… Kill ’em, however you may. Destructive beasties, and hard to eradicate.
Also: Long-unused spaces == dangerous dungeon crawl.
I got more scars from going into long disused spaces than I got from an entire career in the Nav.
Driven boar hunts, yes, but they should be with spears.
I also support the driven boar hunts with Mosins.
That IS boar hunts with spears. Very noisy spears.
Can you hunt boar with canned .300 aac in texas? You can in Georgia and I have been told thats the way to do it.
In Texas, you can kill them with ANYTHING. Helicopter? Go for it. Wanna shoot ’em with .22LR? You got it.
Night-vision, suppressors, legally-obtained explosives, ANYTHING.
Nothing wrong with taking a little 12 gauge slug to a few wild pigs I say, although it is a little more challenging with something lighter like 5.56… 😀
Like getting our leg gored off then?
Eternal question when boar hunting..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_98 (or sporting varients)
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosin%E2%80%93Nagant (surplus)
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield (extremely surplus)
@Rantinan None of the above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K31 (surplus)
Accurate, quick straight pull-push bolt, can be fed via stripper clips or mags if you so choose, and 7.5×55 Swiss will get the job done.
I’ll admit to knowing a few guys using M1 Garands for boar in TX as well as someone kicking around the idea of using their BM-59.
Interesting. I knew of the K31, but didn’t know *about* it. Will have to investigate further…
I will buy that book when I can afford, though I think it will be a tad pricey to buy it from Sweden…
And boar meat is the tastiest thing ever!
About halfway through The Deal. BUY BOOK, CAPITALIST DOGS!
See I’ve got to be a hypocrite or something. On the one hand, I, like you said, am not a fan of the canned hunt idea. But on the other hand I see no problem with this being done for wild boar. Kinda wish I lived in a boar state really. They get all the cool toys for hunting 🙁
I did a canned hunt with my dad and brother-in-law for my dad’s 60th birthday. It was one of the best times of my life, not for the hunt, but to spend the time with my dad, and see the look of excitement on my dad’s face when he dropped his pig. He’s never hunted anything bigger than a rabbit.
I’m not a fan of canned hunts either, but my dad justified it by calling them free range pigs (it was a 200 acre pen, they had plenty of room to run and roam). People pay extra for free range chicken, so why not enjoy some free range pig?
Much more ethical than caged pig.
I was about to buy the “Perfect Breakfast” book, when it occurred to me… will you be at Comic-Con and selling them there? That way, I can put money directly into your hand, and get it signed… (I’m the guy who was wearing the “Freak Out…” shirt last year)
Thanks!
*waves*
I’ve only just now noticed the text of the blackboard in the first and last panel, and that it often changes from one strip to the next. And I’m now insanely curious, because I can never seem to read the whole thing. “You are being lied to…”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/23/russian-tv-inventor-of-the-ak-47-has-died/
don’t cry yet, wait for independent verification…
Just finished “The Deal” – can’t wait for the next installment. What’s the time frame for the follow up books?
Interesting:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20131220/DEFREG01/312200020/Lithuania-Picks-New-Assault-Rifle-Its-Land-Forces
Keep It Simple and Stupid designer that changed the world. His wish of becoming a farm equipment designer was interrupted by being shot at. It is possibly the best thing that happened to John Deere and IH.
Rifle Designer Mikhail Kalashnikov Dead at 94. RIP.
On second thought I’m not sure I’d call this a “canned hunt” per se. Using dogs and beaters to drive boars to waiting hunters is how it was done for thousands of years.
Dude, lets schedule one. I’ll go with!
Shouldn’t be too hard to go hunt some hog in Texas. Seems like everyone has a ranch, and every Texan hates hogs. Despite having family and friends with property in Texas, I’ve only been hog hunting in Georgia.
I imagine that the hunters are subject to attack by the wild boar, which says to me that this isn’t really a totally canned hunt. And since boar are not merely destructive but also dangerous, I wholeheartedly support people killing them, regardless of method.
I snagged the ebook version of your book. Someday I might even get around to reading it. 😛
Sweet, thanks for the comic update. Most people go on vacation but all my family that is still alive lives in town. I have some cousins that live in Europe but they are only cousins. All of my grandparents passed away. Before, anyone gets all teary-eyed they lived into their 90’s. I just happen to be the youngest of a youngest child and so my cousins are really old on mom’s side. On dad’s side because he was the second oldest my cousins are about my age give or take a year.