Animal lover tried hunting

Related, the October issue of Backpacker magazine included an article from a long time hiker, first time hunter deer hunting in WA. He ended up getting some meat. Spoke very well of hunting. I was impressed. Good to have such publicity get out to those who read the magazine, probably the majority of which are non-hunters.
 
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I have a friend who loves bush walking and nature, walking through the bush but he also LOVES hunting and FISHING heaps!!!

Its good to be able to watch the deer but its also nice to be able to cull them!!!!!!!!
 
have long been a member of PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS
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All my life. :) I was talking to a guy on a plane trip coming back from L.A. about my feedlot, a gal stood up and said she was a veggietarian and didnt eat anything with a head. I told her neither do I, we cut their heads off first. Plane erupted with laffter, she turned red and sat down. Omaha is a meat town :) full of steakhouses. And proud of it :)
 
As a youngster my Mother owned 2 restaraunts in CA,very good eateries.Of 6 kids I was the only one who learned to cook.Properly trained by her I went into the Fire Service where cooking is a marketable skill in the fire houses.Over the years I have developed necessary skills to make five star venison of any kind.All of my sisters(3) are of Eco-Terrorsit,bunny-tree hugging,latte sipping,tofu eating CA socialists,I have 2 brothers that are benign. I have hunted since I was 16 with the help of a family friend who taught me how,I have had good success over the years.At family gatherings I would make some version of venison all three sisters ask me all the time now when are you going to kill your next deer,elk,moose,sheep.They themselves would never kill one but they will eat the hell out of it.So they no longer have hate in their hearts for the hunter.
 
I'm getting hungry reading LRs post :)

My daughter was going anti hunter in high school. She loves biscuits and gravy tho. I shot a deer, boned it out and had it made into breakfast sausage, yep she ate all that deer over biscuits. She even brought her friends over to have some of the best gravy and biscuits made :) I told her what she ate, after that she didnt care, just give me some more :)

She wouldnt eat pheasant either, I boned out some breasts, cut it up into strips breaded it and fryed it up. She told me that was the best chicken strips she ever had :)

My son will eat what I put in front of him and leftovers for breakfast :)
 
I'm halfway minoring in Wildlife Ethology and would love to some day get into after the medical field dries up. . . but the more i've learned the more i know how important hunting is to the grand scheme of things. . . that and i love to shoot :D
 
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I don't see a conflict between studying wildlife ethology and hunting. As far as I know about ethology which isn't much.
 
The best part is when all the super lib conservationist learn how that hunting fees and licenses fund that great majority of conservation efforts. Something that seems to be left out of most of the books
 
The best part is when all the super lib conservationist learn how that hunting fees and licenses fund that great majority of conservation efforts. Something that seems to be left out of most of the books
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there are a lot of people out there who are willfully ignorant about hunting and conservation, not just the 'super lib conservationists.' I think the knee-jerk reaction you get from most anti-hunters come from those that choose not to educate themselves about the purpose of hunting, the programs and conservation efforts by the DNR and learning the overall positive effect on the environment. my wife's 17 yo cousin is part of an animal rights group at her high school. I told her I own a rifle and that I plan on hunting with it, and then asked her how she felt about it. she asked, 'are you hunting for meat?' and when I said yes she said she was ok with that. she just wasn't big on trophy hunting. I was happy to hear that she was at least being very practical in her approach to animal rights. she knows she's a meat eater and that to admonish others for hunting would be a double-standard.
 
gaseousclay, your wife's cousin might be falling into a semantics trap. "Trophy hunting" when done legally is no different from pure "meat hunting", as the meat is eaten. The only difference that I see is that a trophy hunter is picky about what he shoots and creates for himself a more difficult challenge.

She may be thinking of "trophy hunting" as killing only for the horns and then leaving the rest of the animal as waste. She needs to know that there are harsh legal penalties against that. FWIW, in Africa, all of a trophy animal gets eaten...
 
gaseousclay, your wife's cousin might be falling into a semantics trap. "Trophy hunting" when done legally is no different from pure "meat hunting", as the meat is eaten. The only difference that I see is that a trophy hunter is picky about what he shoots and creates for himself a more difficult challenge.

She may be thinking of "trophy hunting" as killing only for the horns and then leaving the rest of the animal as waste. She needs to know that there are harsh legal penalties against that. FWIW, in Africa, all of a trophy animal gets eaten...
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good point. I took her trophy hunting comment to mean those that only kill for the horns and leave the rest as waste. It wasn't entirely lost on me either that a lot of people do both, take horns and eat the meat, which I have no problem with.
 
good point. I took her trophy hunting comment to mean those that only kill for the horns and leave the rest as waste.
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Everywhere I have ever lived or hunted, the proper term for this type of hunting is "Poaching".

Remind the lady, that poaching is akin to theft, starting a forest fire, or robbing a bank. Criminals poach, not hunters.
 
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