Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!wanttaja From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: And another thing... (flame broiled veal) Message-ID: <341@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:15:09 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.341 Posted: Wed Jan 16 02:15:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 01:34:21 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 22 ...hunters sitting around all day drinking beer, then killing a deer at a half-mile range with a high-powered rifle? All right, I give you a little leeway for exaggeration, but pull out your HP-41 and calculate the amount of pointing accuracy needed to hit a (nominally) six feet long and six high deer at a range of a half-mile... Now tell me the chance of a hit after a six-pack of beer has been imbibed. Not likely to get that beast's number under these cimcumstances :-). After all, these are unguided projectiles. And the comment about the deer walking innocently into the campground to get shot... SHEEEESH! Wild deer (as opposed to the Yellowstone variety) tend to make themselves DAMN scarce as soon as they start hearing the 30-06 shots heralding the start of hunting season. Survival of the fittest, right?- the most nervous, ready-to-run deer will probably survive to breed. Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja) "You can't stamp a huge mainframe, 'Property of the Zoo'!!" "They do it when they're PCs..."