As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
If I were to say, New York, New Jersey or Massachusetts, what would come to mind? A big city, reality television and liberalism?
How America died is based in those perceptions, and I return you back to a time when New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts had an absolutely different meaning to the rich American elite, as they were once Americans.
The following quote is going to read foreign to you, as you are so far removed from America yourself, and you are going to be puzzled that this even existed.
"The best points in Long Island for geese, brant-duck, and bay-snipe shooting are at the Great South Bay, the East Bay, and Shinnefcod Bay, and at the latter location we have pleasantly passed several successive seasons, enjoying excellent sport. It is a bay of only eight miles in extent, and the points are all easily accessible; and when the valisneria (duck-grass) is abundant, the shooting for duck and snipe is very good. In former years, Great South Bay was, and still is, a favorite resort for wild fowl shooters,
In their fall migrations, they turn aside from the open sea to frequent the various bays, marshes, and mud-flats of Long Island and New Jersey, where they enjoy their natural, abundant food; and there the gunners, securely hid in ambush, await their approach, and greatly thin out the flocks."
- Leffingwell, William Bruce
I will repeat this in New York City, was at it's founding, a place where men were seen strolling down the streets to the wetlands where they off shooting waterfowl.
Massachusetts was a place of the great bay and children firing off guns from roof tops during the fall hunt.
New Jersey was a hunter's dream.
The worst or greatest of the Market Hunters were not on the buffalo plains, but on the east coast in harvesting from punt boats huges rafts of Red Head and Canvasback ducks for restaurants.
The region was so hunting minded, that it gave rise to the greatest waterfowl dog in the world in the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, which was a dog bred by the direst game slaughterers, who required a dog to gaurd their boats, after all day of fetching ducks in iced ocean waters, and if they did not, the dogs were beat, shot or left to die in the ocean.
America died when the metropolitan rich stopped being Americans. People never consider what a wildlife producer the east once was for hunting, fishing and trapping.
I place this here to show to yourselves your rejection of America in what founded her, in how even you do not have any interest or care what was American. How even you have rejected the reality of the hunt is what Americans were engaged in.
Americans did not play golf. Americans went fishing. Americans did not play video games. Americans went out to the great marshes and hunted. Americans did not have cell phones connected to their ears, but had furs which they trapped around them to keep warm.
You have no idea whether a shotgun or rifle is used on snipe. You have no idea what size shot to use. You have no inclination to check the weather to see how the morning flight will be. It never occurs to you of decoys, duck boats or that dog you have is with you, because it helps find game, so you can eat, and is not there costing you thousands of dollars a year in vet, feed and shampoo bills.
In my appreciation, there is nothing more beautiful than watching a dog do what it was born to in hunting. To hold a shotgun whose walnut is stained dark by oil, sweat, powder and dirt, and the action has that scent of old powder burned. There is nothing like watching a morning flight of ten thousand geese.
That is the reason America died. That is the reason the east is as foul of nature as the west in those metro areas in there is no thought of Americans in those areas.
People used to equate those massive wetlands with hunting and being out in those wilds. Now they equate the worst of liberal lethargy where once people roamed as people.
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