Author Topic: How many hunters? (Read 670 times)

MrBill · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2004, 11:10:09 PM »

Just feed the deer and wild turkeys in the back yard now, ain't no griz left nohow.

Furball · « **Reply #16 on:** September 11, 2004, 04:27:42 AM »

i hate hunting, i can understand it if you are killing vermin, protecting livestock/produce... But comments like

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Originally posted by Rafe35
Squirrel are pretty good, i mean I seem almost always give them a head shot.

are just disgusting. I'm so glad i live in a country which is against hunting. Why take a beautiful animal like a deer, and blow its brains out for the sake of a cheap thrill.

Suave · « **Reply #17 on:** September 11, 2004, 05:05:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Furball
iWhy take a beautiful animal like a deer, and blow its brains out for the sake of a cheap thrill.

For the sake of a cheap thrill.. Duh.

You state the answer to your question within your very question.

But really, if you have to ask, you'll never understand.

Creamo · « **Reply #18 on:** September 11, 2004, 05:17:50 AM »

Whitetail Deer in Wisconsin and Iowa.

Bow mostly, but love the shotgun season.

Rifles are allowed a few counties above us, but killing deer with a rifle is about like the Michigan apple bait bucket hunters. I just don’t get it.

Furball · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2004, 05:17:59 AM »

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Originally posted by Suave

But really, if you have to ask, you'll never understand.

yeah... i don't understand killing things for personal satisfaction.

What a moron i am.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #20 on:** September 11, 2004, 05:33:42 AM »

So Furball, do you let others do your killing for you or are you a Vegan?

If you subsribe to the hunter / gatherer origin of our species, and primative tribal cultures still in existance today tend to back up that theory, then there is some satisfaction in bringing home some meat for the dinner table.

It is deeply engrained in our psyche, some stronger than others, and gets mixed up with a bunch of other stuff. Some think the big game hunter trophy mentality has to do with proving you are a better provider and guardian, so you are therefore more manly and thus more attractive to the females.

Obviously, when we are isolated from the hunting culture as we are in modern society, the motives are not as clear but the primal urges are still there.

Like a dog having fun chasing a stick imitates the chase and the kill, we humans are not as advanced above other species as we think we are.

Furball · « **Reply #21 on:** September 11, 2004, 05:34:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
So Furball, do you let others do your killing for you or are you a Vegan?

If you subsribe to the hunter / gatherer origin of our species, and primaitve tribal cultures still in existance today tend to back up that theory, then there is some satisfaction in bringing home some meat for the dinner table.

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Originally posted by Furball
i hate hunting, i can understand it if you are killing vermin, protecting livestock/produce...

Sorry, meant to add "for food" to that too.

I'm not against killing animals for the above reasons, it is sad but really unavoidable. But as i said - its killing for no real reason apart from the sake of it is what i dont like.

Toad · « **Reply #22 on:** September 11, 2004, 08:50:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Furball
its killing for no real reason apart from the sake of it is what i dont like.

I think you'll find an awful lot of hunters that agree with that statement absolutely.

Suave · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2004, 09:16:04 AM »

Most hunters get joy from hunting. And it has little to do with the eating part. It's just a primordial endorphin trigger I think.

I know poeple who are in love with it so much that it has wrecked other parts of their life. The get divorced because they are never home, they can't hold down a job. They often take temporary jobs as hunting guides.

lazs2 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 11, 2004, 10:13:31 AM »

I do all my hunting at safeway these days.

furball is correct... you are scum... it is much more humane to let the deer freeze and starve to death.

lazs

VOR · « **Reply #25 on:** September 11, 2004, 02:27:44 PM »

Another successful morning in the woods.

superpug1 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 11, 2004, 02:37:08 PM »

I hunt
Dove, deer, Elk, a bear (once, long story), duck, goose, turkey, squirrel, pheasant, and qual.

And yes i eat everything i hunt, No deer heads hanging on the wall at my house.

Horn · « **Reply #27 on:** September 11, 2004, 02:56:47 PM »

Cow tag this year. Elk. Yum.

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kevykev56 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 11, 2004, 08:25:00 PM »

Deer, Rabbit,Squirrel,Dove,Duck,Hog,Turkey. And If I every move somewhere more towards the mid west. I will add Elk, and Moose to that list.

Here is a good story about a large whitetail

Goliath

RHIN0

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 11, 2004, 10:30:30 PM »

killing for a sport is a bad thing. Hell it almost killed one of the most amazing creatures ever. the buffalo.