I went to the Good Guys today to pick up new dehydrator to make some venison jerky. The girl ringing up the sale asked "what are you going to make with this"?

Jerky said I

"what kind? she says.

Venison says I

"Oh where do you get your venison? I've been looking for it in the butcher shops near home"

I shot it said I (with a small smile on my face). Straight from the paddock.

"Oh" she said as her eyes went wide a bit and she blinked. She then recovered and went on talking about how hard it was to get and that veal was also her favorite meat.

"Shot it" ? ? ?

What a novel way to obtain some venison

I've seen that sort of reaction, too, Bakes, but still proudly proclaim being a hunter.

I had an even more unpleasant experience in Wyoming 25 years ago, though. After hunting for two weeks and getting nothing, I found myself in a clothes shop with my wife and daughter.

They were up the back trying on stuff so I spoke to the pretty young thing in a frilly dress at the counter. She asked me what I was doing in the area and I told her I'd been hunting mule deer.

'Yes,' she said, 'I shot my buck yesterday.'

I think she was coming on to you.

Reminds me of a guy called Craig coming back from NZ with a deer head.

Lady at the check in counter obviously grimaced and Craig query her. She said she was a vegitarian.

His response "So was the deer last week" !!!