From: Bill Duarte <BillD@BOGDANFRASCO.com>
To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: RE: baidarka North Baffin Technique
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:05:17 -0700
I have to say something.....
I understand the necessity of the hunt. I also respect native hunting
rituals and the danger that the seal and whale hunters put themselves
into when searching and capturing their prey.
There is no honor or courage in what I have read regarding "modern"
North Alaskan hunters. Once the hunter distances himself from his prey
and from the kill(by using a .22, no less) , he distances himself from
the spiritual and emotional nature of the hunt. I see no courage or
honor in what is described below. To intentionally wound an animal and
prolong the suffering of the creature for fear of losing the body is
despicable and does not deserve my respect. Once native hunters got hold
of such a cowardly hunting tool as a rifle, the culture died.
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Morris [SMTP:brewerycreek@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 9:58 AM
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: baidarka North Baffin Technique
>
> I wrote a "how to" article for Sea Kayaker magazine last year on
> building a version of the North Alaska retrieval kayak. The
> introduction of the firearms changed the use of the kayak in hunting.
>
> As part of my research, I asked my father about hunting seal with a
> gun. We lived in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, in the mid 1960s and
> he spent some time out on the land with Innu hunters.
>
> He told me the .22 was favoured for several reasons:
> #1 A large round such as a .303 (or 22 mm!)would lower the value of
> the harvested seal because of the damage to the pelt and meat.
> #2 a .22 round costs less than a larger round.
> #3 A dead seals sink. The .22 would wound the seal, keeping it closer
> to the surface, slowing it down, and making it easier to then harpoon
> and retrieve. (The harpooning activity is skipped across in the
> quoted text, but it was part of the hunting pattern, in Baffin
> anyway.)
>
> I would presume that a large gun's recoil would restrict the arc of
> fire to within a few degrees of the bow. The .22 would allow wider
> angle deflection shots.
>
> Robert
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: vdoucett@uism.bu.edu
> Reply-To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
> Subject: Re: baidarka North Baffin Technique
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:20:23 -0400
>
> Hey Guys,
> That was typed as written in the text [the other typos were mine].
> Vernon
>
>
> Say Vernon that's a mighty big gun for a kayak, 22.? Is that
> millimeters?
> even so it had to be deck mounted? And whats more, it fires harpoons
> with
> lines and floats? and accurate at 75' wow some gun! ;^)
> Bram
>
>
>
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