On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: > Deer can be raised domestically. I think that if you try to get > venison in America, most of what you find will be from farms. Ok, that blows up this line. > > Also note that > > Dragaeran hunters use neither bows/arrows (is this true?) or firearms. > > Other forms of deer hunting which I'm vaguely familiar with are > > extremely uneconomical. > > Why do you think they don't use bows and arrows? Something I can't > remember? (Quite likely.) Just that Vlad wasn't familiar with them in > _Dragon_? That, and various places in the Vladiad where a quarrel or arrow through someone's throat would simplify matters, and Paarfi's failure to mention them in various places where they would be apropos.