Chicken fried backstrap and deer sausage. Bacon wrapped, pepper stuffed dove. Grilled and blackened quail. Smoked goose. Roasted Duck. These are some of my favorite things...
Deer hunting - I've done it, but it doesn't do anything for me. I don't understand the thrill of sitting silently in a blind waiting for an animal to come eat free food so I can shoot it. Bird hunting is more interesting- you have flush then shoot a flying target. Fishing appeals to me just as much. Boring. (and isn't fishing pretty much fish-hunting?) I don't have anything against it, though. And I like to eat game meat and fish. What I don't get is the entire way of life that surrounds hunting. There are people who count camo in their daily wardrobe. I see trucks with camo accents around Fort Worth all of the time, and those silly deer window stickers. I love technology, but I don't wear old sticks of ram sewn into my clothes.
I think shooting a defenseless animal with a high-powered sniper rifle dressed in complete camo, while making mating calls from 200 yards away is about as cowardly as it gets. If you want to kill that animal and use it for meat, give it a fighting chance to survive. Hunt it with a close-range weapon. It deserves to fight for its life just as much as you do. Also, hunting for sport is absolutely despicable. That animal was NOT put on this Earth to hang over your mantle.
Like it so long as its not for sport/trophies. As long as you cook just about every piece of that animal them all for it. To much of a dis-connect now-a-days when it comes to where people think there food comes from.
I never been hunting, i dont think i can shoot a defenselss animal. I go fishing and feel bad about that even but I still do it.
As a bowhunter, who sort of understands the sentiment, I give this a meh. Humans are on the top of the food chain because of our intelligence and ability to use tools, not our strength, speed, claws, big teeth, or anything else. I'm sure that the first caveman to sharpen his rock and tie it to a stick was mocked for not giving the mammoth a fair chance. I don't think it's any less moral to shoot a buffalo with a scoped rifle today than it was for the Blackfoot to jump herds of them off of a cliff 1000 years ago.
Hunting for food is alright with me. As a meat eater, I'd be hypocritical to say otherwise. Hunting purely for sport is about as lame as it gets.
I'm not a hunter, but do realize that a big reason that hunting is permitted and regulated (seasonal limitations, limits on number of kills per animal) is because of wildlife management and population control. It's not like you can just go out there and take out every animal you can point the barrel at. I don't have a problem with it as long as it is being done within the law. Hunting for endangered "trophy" animals is not cool.
Question for the 'helpless animal' crowd- would you hunt something that could kill you? Like a large boar or bear?
Hunting just for food is really rare. The only people that I've known that did it were people that lived in the bush in Alaska and a few redneck poachers that hunted year-round. Everyone else hunts for one of two reasons, sport or population control (farmers who don't want deer eating their corn, for example). Not all hunters are trophy hunters (I'm not) and almost all eat the meat, but for most people, the expense and time put into hunting wouldn't justify it for the meat. The sport, being in nature, primal urge, liking guns or bows, and a lot of other things motivate hunters.
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I get where you're coming from, but when you're literally starving, and your only hope for salvation is the animal standing in front of you, I can understand where any and all tactics are fair game. In this day and age though, you can literally set up a gun, leave for the night, and come back the next day to view what you've killed. Again, I have no problem with people hunting their prey with weapons that at least give the animal a fighting chance to survive. I guess the majority of my problems lie with people who hunt for sport. The concept of hunting is meant for survival, not pride. If you get your jollies by ending the life of another being on this planet, then I just think you have a skewed sense of what life is all about (obviously this is a general "you", not a specific one).
I'm a pretty avid hunter. Hunt for Meat and for trophy. Most of the leases I have been on have had a management program and that IMO is what is best for the population. I've never understood how some people could be just downright against hunting or eating meat. It baffles the mind. :grin: The best hunting to do is frog gigging with my 5 year old. He loves it and we have a blast doing it. He, at 5 yrs old, already shoots a .22 and knows how to skin and field dress any animal. U mad????? Lulllzzzz :grin:
