Open carry of deadly weapons...

[Victor3]

...in Mongolia.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re644qgnCtw&feature=endscreen&NR=1

[magooch]

Absolutely unbelievable and awesome at the same time. Eagles must be a lot sturdier than I ever thought.

[Brett]

WOW!  That is one powerful bird.

[magooch]

So now they're saying the video might be fake.  Say it ain't so.  It's got to where you can't trust your own eyes.  If these killer eagles really do exist, I wonder if they could be trained to take out a ....

[Victor3]

 Fake? Not hardly. Those folks were doing it for centuries before photoshop came along. 

[Conan The Librarian]

That's amazing! I wonder how the birds are able to kill the wolves, and how they avoid injury from the biting wolves. The pictures don't make it clear to me. It looks like the birds are gripping the wolves with their talons, then pushing them away until they expire. But despite the long talons, I still don't see how they can disable the wolves so quickly.

[Victor3]

 I read somewhere years ago that the falconers try to stay close to the birds while on horseback and dispatch the wolves with a club or pointy stick while the bird holds it. They do lose birds on occasion.


 Regardless, reading about these gentlemen and their lifestyles reveals that they're at a level of 'outdoorsman' I'll never achieve...

[Conan The Librarian]

Victor3, if we lived in Mongolia, I gay ron tee you we'd be thinking up stuff like this. Not a whole lot to do there except enjoy the outdoors.