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Thomas Hurt

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4. Back when I was in high school a neighbor of ours decided to raise fighting cocks...

Reply to flying_wahini (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 27, 2020, 09:53 AM

Oct 2020

What I remember was a long spike or spur that they attached to the rooster.

That was here in the US decades ago, but they could attach a blade of some kind as well I suppose.

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WOW Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1

So did they actually put a razor on the rooster or is the blade they refer to a claw? flying_wahini Oct 2020 #2

The razor-sharp steel blades or "gaffs" (which resemble 3-inch-long, curved ice picks) ti soothsayer Oct 2020 #3

Hideously cruel whathehell Oct 2020 #5

Indeed soothsayer Oct 2020 #6

Such a sick sport... Duppers Oct 2020 #7

Back when I was in high school a neighbor of ours decided to raise fighting cocks... Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #4