Are you a hunter

are you a hunter

  • yes

    Votes: 141 64.4%

  • no

    Votes: 78 35.6%
  • Total voters
    219
  • Poll closed .
Yes, but only for varmits like groundhogs, skunks, possums, coyotes, etc that destroy gardens or threaten the safety of livestock.

Never really liked killing things, but I have to admit that I did feel some real satisfaction when I popped my first groundhog... he was an arrogant little b@st@rd who liked to roam close to where my father-in-law and I work in the garden. First shot slowed him down, second shot in the head with open sights. :D

Someday I might try deer hunting, but I sure as heck am not going to sit in a tree stand and wait all day. If I can't walk around and look for them, it's not happening.

I want to try rabbit, so the little cottontailed things that swarm around my house are the next targets. Now, if I only had the time...
 
Yup...

Ducks mainly, but hogs and deer when I get a chance. I used to turkey hunt a lot when I was in college, and I'd take my wife along. I don't get to turkey hunt much any more, it does give me a thrill when I hear my wife say something like "Gee, I wish there was a place to go turkey hunting around here." I can tell she misses it.
 
My dad fathered me rather late in life and my older brother didn't care to have his (very much) younger brother tagging along in the field, so I never really got into hunting. I used guns to chase varmints away from the chickens and such when back on the old home place, but these days the grocery store is just too darn convenient.

I've got nothing against hunting in general and would certainly indulge if I needed to put food on the table, but there's just too many people and not enough open space where I live to make it a practical sport.
 
Not very often. In my city, there are very few public hunting grounds, and outside the city, you need to be friends with a farmer. Otherwise the only solution is to go through an outfitter and dish out more money than I can afford.
 
I voted no. Pa use to have some of the best hunting in the country for ringneck pheasant and whitetail deer.
I lost all my connections for deer hunting years ago and just gave it up. Pheasants went bye bye years ago. Small game hunting was my favorite hunting with archery for deer being 2nd.
 
I used to do some bird hunting but one day just decided I didn't want to do it anymore. I liked being outdoors and I like shooting but just didn't like shooting the birds. Still like fishing though.

I have no objections to anyone else who enjoys hunting. There's sure plenty of deer around here!
 
I'm not sure which I like better...hunting the game or eating the game! I don't just hunt for the sport, although I enjoy the outdoors, but I realy enjoy preparing and eating my kill, almost as much as the fish I catch.
 
Started deer, squirrel, bird hunting, and fishing with my father, when I was very young. I also love bass fishing. (I quit tournament fishing when my kids were born) Can't wait till my kids are old enough to hunt and fish with me.
Hunting and fishing with my father and grandfather are some of the best times of my life.
 
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I answers no just because I have only been rabbit hunting a couple times, so I don't really count that.

I really want to get into hunting and have been working to get a hunt capable rifle. I have it now, so I'm now working on my aim. Unfortunately nobody in my family hunts. I ran int a guy the other day at the shop but he hunts predators. I don't think I want to do that. It sounded like he does it for the fun and the skins. While those are two benefits of hunting I also want to be able to feed my family with what I kill.

So if there is someone in the Queen Creek area of AZ that hunts drop me a PM if you are willing to take a novice under your wing.
 
I'm not into shooting anything but paper targets.

Although personally I am not into killing, I have few moral objections to hunting, particularly if hunting for food or varmint control. Someday I might even try it for myself. Trophy and big-game hunting, though, is a bit harder for me to stomach.

H.
 
That would be a yes answer.
Super RedHawk in 480 Ruger with 30mm UltraDot. Primary deer gun using my home cast 400 grain lead bullets.
Contender Super 14 in 6 Bullberry Imp, 6.5 x 30 JDJ, 35 Bullberry, and 22 LR. All with 2-7X Burris Pistol Scopes.
54 Cal Custom Hawkins rifle shooting .535 patched Round Balls over 100 grains of 2F Black Powder, loaded from the possible bag.
Varment Rifles for Coyotes.
Dale Dye Trails End Recurve, and a White River Recurve bows. Wood arrows, and 160 grain Snuffer 3 blade broadheads.

I hunt lots of paper and cardboard also. Monthly Defensive Pistol match. Monthly Rimfire Bench Rest. Monthly Run & Gun (2 Gun Combat Course) Monthly Hi Power Match (Sniper one month & Multi Range F Class the other)

Bob
 
Between October and january I am usually out in the woods about 2-4 times every week depending on my work schedule. When deer season comes around it usually takes up all my extra time. I also like to go rabbit hunting but haven't got out to do that as much here in the past few years. When October comes I am in the stand with my bow. Then shotgun season is after that. And then muzzleloader. Then late bow season. I haven't been hunting with a handgun yet. Maybe ill try that this year.
 
I hunt and fish when ever I get the chance, though if you don't live in the country and/or have friends who have places to go, it's becoming more and more a rich man's sport.
 
I guess I am a hunter.

Deer, fall turkey, coyotes, rabbits, an occasional squirrel, and I used to be an avid goose/duck hunter until the limits got so small and steel shot became the load of the day that the price of admission to the sport became more than I could bear.
 
I used to really enjoy shooting dove and quail, but as there got to be less and less land available I hunted less and less often. I haven't shot anything but paper for several years now.
 
In my youth and college I hunted and fished every opportunity, then life got in the way. It finally got to where I'd deer hunt maybe twice a year, then in 2004 when my second child was born I stopped completely.

It wasn't until last year when my son kept begging me to take him hunting that I got interested again. he was/is 6 we had a blast together. He took his first deer in our youth day hunt in September. We went dozens of times last season, and he's already hitting me up to take him spring gobbler season.

Now if I could just get my 8yo daughter to hunt...but she's too "pro-animal" :p
 
Yes! My grandfather got me started at a very young age. Although he went ahead to the happy hunting ground in 1989. When I'm afield I still feel close to him. I hope that my kids will feel the same sence of peace when me and grandad are back together. I love the outdoors!
 
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