"I haven't hunted deer in a very long time. It seems like all the hunters back home have guns, and I'd rather not get shot. Someday, I should find some land of my own, or just disregard the hunting laws."

He does miss fresh venison.

"It depends on whether it's magical or not, probably. If it's not, the worst that could happen would be if you had way too much tension on a spring or coil, but that would take a Rube Goldberg effect to be catastrophic. With magic... it would be a catastrophic magic effect that just happened to involve clockwork. So it's possible, but very unlikely, and would make for a hell of a story."