I have read some of the thread wherein there is discussion of the creation of a rather exclusive club. I do not qualify. Therefore I am bitter. As such I have spent some time moaning and gnashing my teeth, conniving and in general wasting time in an effort to come up with a rather "blue collar" club for those of us who are, shall we say, "the plebs".
While I jumped at the opportunity to create the antithesis of the SOMA (Society of Misguided Adventurers) with some alacrity, I have found that I am not nearly as witty as I had initially believed. The process of coming to grips with my inadequacy included further moaning and gnashing of teeth in between imbibing several tumblers filled with a mixture of The Botanist, Fentiman's Traditional Tonic Water and ice cubes. In hindsight, given the aim of creating an exclusive yet pedestrian - in comparison to The SOMA - club, my choice of libations ought to have been a double fisting of Two-Buck Chuck and 5 Star - both of which would have to have been consumed straight from the bottle.
Regardless, I am proposing a club where the aim is to harvest the smallest "game" with firearms. I initially had thought that we could have the Grad Slam of Rodents, which would include all of the legally harvestable rodents in Canada, with the "holy grail" being good old Cryptotis parva. That's right my friends, the North American Least Shrew.
To my credit I can only add one solitary field mouse slain with a .177 caliber Slavia break action pellet rifle.
In addition to harvesting such beasts as the aforementioned shrew and mouse, we could include species such as the whistle-pig (which, contrary to the name is not a relative of the European wild boar), singing vole, Norway rat (must have been taken in Canada, although we could consider the admissibility of one harvested in Norway), olive backed pocket mouse, yellow pine chipmunk and of course the Cascade Golden-mantled ground squirrel.
While I would like to say that, due to the democratic nature of the proposed club, that I am open to further ideas such as name, other glorious experiences required to qualify and so forth, the truth of the matter is that I herniated my Neocortex in coming up with the basics you have just read.
So. Any ideas to further the creation of this club?
In the rather unlikely event that you have no proposals to be included in the Articles of Incorporation, just post your story of the "smallest game taken with a firearm".
While I jumped at the opportunity to create the antithesis of the SOMA (Society of Misguided Adventurers) with some alacrity, I have found that I am not nearly as witty as I had initially believed. The process of coming to grips with my inadequacy included further moaning and gnashing of teeth in between imbibing several tumblers filled with a mixture of The Botanist, Fentiman's Traditional Tonic Water and ice cubes. In hindsight, given the aim of creating an exclusive yet pedestrian - in comparison to The SOMA - club, my choice of libations ought to have been a double fisting of Two-Buck Chuck and 5 Star - both of which would have to have been consumed straight from the bottle.
Regardless, I am proposing a club where the aim is to harvest the smallest "game" with firearms. I initially had thought that we could have the Grad Slam of Rodents, which would include all of the legally harvestable rodents in Canada, with the "holy grail" being good old Cryptotis parva. That's right my friends, the North American Least Shrew.
To my credit I can only add one solitary field mouse slain with a .177 caliber Slavia break action pellet rifle.
In addition to harvesting such beasts as the aforementioned shrew and mouse, we could include species such as the whistle-pig (which, contrary to the name is not a relative of the European wild boar), singing vole, Norway rat (must have been taken in Canada, although we could consider the admissibility of one harvested in Norway), olive backed pocket mouse, yellow pine chipmunk and of course the Cascade Golden-mantled ground squirrel.
While I would like to say that, due to the democratic nature of the proposed club, that I am open to further ideas such as name, other glorious experiences required to qualify and so forth, the truth of the matter is that I herniated my Neocortex in coming up with the basics you have just read.
So. Any ideas to further the creation of this club?
In the rather unlikely event that you have no proposals to be included in the Articles of Incorporation, just post your story of the "smallest game taken with a firearm".
