Hunting - What's Your opinion?

[ellie mae]

well, i guess shooting fish in a barrel sounds boring as fuck, and so would shooting a lion in a crate, or a deer in a dog kennel.  but give the deer an acre or 2 to "run" on, and by all means dont pen them in like herd cattle any more than they do it to themselves, (remember the golf course i mentioned in a previous post) then it's not really "canned" anymore. 

and yes, i agree, SOMETHING will usually eat the kill.  even if you dont.  in my case, if it was game i didnt care for the taste of, i have dogs and cats who will eat it.  if it was left in the wild, eventually something will eat it.  when an animal just collapses and dies, SOMETHING eats it.  even if it's diseased some scavengers have immunities to that.

[tim]

 I hunt, fish, fill the freezers every year with enough left over to help others. Probably put up 4 or 5k worth of stuff to justify my time and the expense. (by like 20 fold). 

[ellie mae]

tim?  holy shit i dont think i've seen you in FOREVER!

thats pretty smurfy of you to hook up others too.  if we could afford to get dirt set up with a lifetime tag and the necessary shit, we'd try to do that too.  something we've seriously considered.

[Medium Rare]

Backstrap cut fresh and fried with garlic butter. Venison chili. 

[scarlet1]

Backstrap cut fresh and fried with garlic butter. Venison chili. 

OMG Yum! Seriously made me hungry, there!

As for OP...I'm not *against* sport hunting, but I do applaud those sport hunters who donate the meat, whether to soup kitchens, tribes in Africa, etc...and those who do it for the trophy who then also stock their own freezer, or their friends'.

My opinion on hunting, as a whole, is - as long what you're hunting is in season, you have a permit to hunt it, and the kill shot is an ethical/clean shot, then it's good with me.

[ellie mae]

i still really dont see where it can be called "sport hunting" if the meat gets eaten.  as it stands right this very second, very few people "need" to hunt for food, some do, but there are grocry stores almost everywhere in this country.

but some people like to save money, and if you already have the "stuff" tags arrent that bad, if you're pretty sure you can get one, you'll save a lil bit in meat that year.  you gotta get good enough somehow, so "sport" animals, that you may or may not want to eat are a good way to improve your aim.  squirrels, dont even try to convince me there's a squirrel shortage, and in a few spots nearby you probally shouldnt eat the meat, or keep the fur, which would damn near kill me, but they carry the plague.  i dont know if you can get the plague from eating the squirrel, since it's actually the fleas, but still...   i'd a big enough "not fan" of the plague, i'm not chancing it, and i know how appetizing to fleas i am

[Titties 'n Beer]

It's sport hunting in the sense that the hunter is out for something other than meat, be it hides, horns, antlers or size. It's the bragging rights that someone got the biggest bull in the hills. Even if they take the meat, it's the trophy and the story that they're after, meat is just a potential bonus.

[Medium Rare]

It's sport hunting in the sense that the hunter is out for something other than meat, be it hides, horns, antlers or size. It's the bragging rights that someone got the biggest bull in the hills. Even if they take the meat, it's the trophy and the story that they're after, meat is just a potential bonus.

As long as the carcass goes to good use I don't care what people do. Shooting and taking a trophy while leaving the meat of the kill behind is not ethical in my book.

[ellie mae]

thats about where i stand med.

if you want to shoot something, fine, save some room in yer freezer, and go hunting, i would use pelts, i see no issue with pelt hunting if you use the pelts, BUT use the meat too.

sure maybe it's "sport" but if you eat it/use it,  it's not unethical in my opinion

[Titties 'n Beer]

That's where my opinion differs a bit. I don't mind leaving the carcass. Like I said before, something will eat it, nothing ever truly "goes to waste" (how many hunters leave "gut piles"?), and while I prefer the meat being taken, it's not *always* a really bad thing if it's left.

[DragonGuide]

The only type of hunting I am truly against in ALL cases, are canned hunts. Simply because it is not hunting if you are shooting a deer in a box....that's shooting a deer in a box.  Now, if they were to quit calling it "hunting" and call it something more like "penned animal shooting" then wooo go for it, but it's not hunting damnit.

As long as you are using legal means, try to get a killshot, plan to use most of the body, or have a good reason to kill it (pop. control) the I don't mind hunting. It's when people break the rules, fail to have a decent amount of sportsmanship and basically are assholes about it---then I have a problem with it.

[scarlet1]

As long as you are using legal means, try to get a killshot, plan to use most of the body, or have a good reason to kill it (pop. control) the I don't mind hunting. It's when people break the rules, fail to have a decent amount of sportsmanship and basically are assholes about it---then I have a problem with it.

Same!

Kind of like the jerk who shot my Matty's already wounded buck, then claimed both shots were his.

[sarcasm]Cuz yeah, there's a total shortage of deer around here, and it's real hard to find your own, rather than stealing some kid's first buck ever. Oh, and btw, you were totally NOT trespassing on the property. [/sarcasm]

[Medium Rare]

As long as you are using legal means, try to get a killshot, plan to use most of the body, or have a good reason to kill it (pop. control) the I don't mind hunting. It's when people break the rules, fail to have a decent amount of sportsmanship and basically are assholes about it---then I have a problem with it.

Same!

Kind of like the jerk who shot my Matty's already wounded buck, then claimed both shots were his.

[sarcasm]Cuz yeah, there's a total shortage of deer around here, and it's real hard to find your own, rather than stealing some kid's first buck ever. Oh, and btw, you were totally NOT trespassing on the property. [/sarcasm]

Stealing a kid's first buck is low life material.

[ellie mae]

thats awfull, at least yer kid got a good example of "look sweetheart, an example of the kind of douchebag you dont want to grow up to be"  too bad it sounds like he lost an arrow though

[Angry Dog]

The only type of hunting I am truly against in ALL cases, are canned hunts.

Agreed. Canned hunts are for pussies.

Kind of like the jerk who shot my Matty's already wounded buck, then claimed both shots were his.

[sarcasm]Cuz yeah, there's a total shortage of deer around here, and it's real hard to find your own, rather than stealing some kid's first buck ever. Oh, and btw, you were totally NOT trespassing on the property. [/sarcasm]

Wow, what a dick