lights work well with deer.
I can't compare to other foods. It tastes as goat. Not sheep, nor chicken, not cow, not pig. Goat. Don't know any food with the same taste. The young ones have a strong taste. One of the tricks is to put a shot of brandy(or is it spirit? don't know the english name) when it's roasting in the oven. It reduces a lot, the strong flavour that it's got.
The best(for me) are the still milk fed little goatlings.( google translation. In portuguese, we called them cabritos) We roast them in a wood oven. Yumy!
With the elder goats, we usually sell them, but sometimes we keep one, and we do a dish called chanfana. It's just a big pot, with it's meat(with bones), red wine,salt, bay leaves, olive oil, garlic, chili(piri-piri) and it slow cooks for 12h. This is a winter dish. Awesome and powerfull taste. It's the best way to cook older animals.(sheep for instance) The meat is too hard.
Sorry about the offtopic, but hell, this is BLF! Were the threads start on knives and end in pottery.
No problem....rattle away!
I read a good article in the last month by a "dog expert" and their advice was the same. Stand tall, slightly charge the dog, and be assertive. They think you are bait if you run.
I'm hungry now....
I'd be in trouble fast. I love dogs and if I ever saw anyone abusing one, I'd intervene. My wife knows the only thing I'd go to jail for would be her and the dogs.
Rich
Rich -
does every dog know that, too?
They follow their instincts, and their training. If they were trained as "attaboy!", you simply don't have no other chance but to get them first.
A German Shepherd can bite in excess of 150kg/cm², whatever that is in psi. It's a LOT, though. I've seen one grown man actually loose a limb due to a police dog's bite. When we delivered him to the ER, his lower arm was merely attached by a few sinews. He had the chance (several, to be honest!) to surrender, but he didn't.
Now he's only got one arm.
Rick Allen, the drummer of Def Leppard comes to my mind....!
I remember one like that that ended up in front of my father. A very drunk driver pulled up in a lay-by to find a police van there. A policeman came up to the drunk who took a swing at him. Which turned out to have been a very bad idea as the van was there to let four police dogs out to pee. He was a rather chastened man in court on Monday morning.
I posted this on the other side in the TK40 extreme torture test thread. Figured that you guys would enjoy this as well. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1tTBncIsm8
Plastic digital camera bodies, extreme torture test.
Unfortunately this flashgun did not survive. The camera and lens (a "lowly" sigma 17-50 f2.8 OS HSM) survived with no issues. Luckily it was not my Nikon 24mm f1.4 which dropped, my heart will be quite painful if that happened (afraid that it may be miscollimated). Also lucky that it was not my SB-900s which are twice as expensive. 
It dropped because we use stuff well enough to even break nylon straps. This happens if you do not do 100% equipment checks.
There were numerous other drops, but usually no issue.
Yes, quite a few times, hobbyists use better equipment than the professionals. Vice versa may happen, it depends. We just use the correct/appropriate tool, enough to do the job.
I once dropped my Nikon F2 out of an aircraft. And off a motorcycle at 140kph. It still works fine. At least with a motor drive - the top plate is dinged enough to make winding the film on a bit of an issue. Livable with, but slow.
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They don't make them like they used to.
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No s***. But seriously these things are engineered to take a beating. A Nitromethane drag car crashed into a D3 or something did smash it into pieces. Think flashlights would not survive too.
Seriously, if you'd to ask me, the high-end $100 - 400 flashlights engineered not in China and touted to be extremely tough, need to be tested much TOUGHER. If you are into R&D/testing you will see procedures which are much TOUGHER. Freezing to 0 deg F is not tough, even cameras survive that on a vacation. (just be careful of the batt life as that's a generally well known piece of advice, but it seems that most are ok too providing decent juice).
Here's below -50 deg C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUWJ4o9bI4&feature=related
Even our cheap 10 bucks Ultrafire C3 can do such easy stunts. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XBAvOX47x8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbN07NMfotY
You git what you pays for