Originally Posted by
ronlaughlin
Reading all these posts about not eating the meat of various critters, got me to thinking...... Who is closer to the real spirit of the mountain man, one who kills with a prb, and doesn't eat the meat, or one who kills using an AR type rifle, and does eat the meat of all the kills made??
Well Ron, if you want to get to the real nitty gritty truth, most mountain men were trappers by trade. Since I'm sure you know they didn't run the trap lines on a daily basis as they has strings all over the mountains, then it is very very doubtful they ate everything they killed. I'd be willing to bet that many Bear fell to "mountain men" that wasn't eaten.
You do realize that there is a HUGE difference between the "ideology" of the mountain man persona and the real thing right?