Define Hunting

Zero, So I ain't huntin' when runnin' hogs with dogs....?:eek:
No license required and if you come with me on private land with owner's permission with dogs or guns, you don't need one either:D:p
Brent
 
Zero, So I ain't huntin' when runnin' hogs with dogs....?
No license required and if you come with me on private land with owner's permission with dogs or guns, you don't need one either
Brent
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Just trying to narrow it down some. I hunted crows a lot when I was a kid. Come to think of it I think the state, in their wisdom, requires a license for that now.

I think I'll send a letter to the Forida Dept of Game Fish and Wildlife and tell them they are missing a revenue source.:D
 
Zero, well you do that... Just send me your address so I can pass it on to the Farmers:D
Brent
 
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Trying to segregate hunting into subsets that qualify or don't qualify seems like a waste of time to me. I have certain styles that I enjoy more than others. I hunt over bait some times if it's a tough season. Last year I could have pet one particular deer, but I was afraid I might not like the reaction. I let that feller walk but it was a moment that defined my version of hunting.

If you follow the hunt laws to take game then you are hunting in my book.
 
How I see it:

The taking of game in it's natural habitat without the use of poison, traps or snares etc. is hunting. Be it by hands, knife, spear, irons sighted gun or super computer based sighting system on a gun.
 
"Hunting is what you think it is"..........

Well said Zerojunk:
That is exactly the right answer, as there is no "perfect" yes or no response to this question. We all need to stick together and support each other's hunting interests, period! If not, the anti's campaigns against us will pick up steam whenever we have conflicts among ourselves (over what is hunting and what is not considered hunting).
I may not agree with all the particular methods of hunting that are available to the hunting community, but I certainly am not going to give the anti-hunting crazies any ammo to fight or use againist us. Just my opinion.
 
Note on Post #13: I strongly disagree with the connecting of the facts of canned hunting--I agree with the definition--to it being common practice on Texas hunting ranches--which it is not. Among other little problems, it's against the law. And multi-thousand-acre pastures are not exactly "pens".
 
I'm not interested in any non fair chase hunting. But, those who condemn it on some moral ground had better be a vegetarian. Ever been to a slaughterhouse? I have.
 
to me hunting is nothing more than using our brains / technology to gain control of our immediate environment for the further survival of our species(holy quap, where did that come from:D) ... its pretty much the only reason why any of us are still here...




cheers
 
ZeroJunk, the thing is, all our game laws originated from what hunters wanted in the way of fair chase and ethics. Hunters started the game departments by pressure on legislatures, not the other way around. Granted, that's now changed, but don't forget how it started.
 
Lizzie Asked:
Here is my question, plain and simple; how do you define hunting.?
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Then proceeded to post scenarios dealing with "Ethics" We all have our own set of hunting ethics or what we call a personal hunting code. Even the Bunny Huggers have their own code. I personally find all the loaded scenarios to be ethical if they were lawful. Based on our own, personal huntig code there is a fine line between what might or might not be considered hunting, in the strictest terms. I have a very good friend that would not considerate hunting unless it was taken with a bow and arrow. Then there is the hunter who hates to see an animal potentially suffer so would never use a bow. :eek:



Be Safe !!!
 
The thing for me, Pahoo, is that the whole hunting shtick is a package deal. I've posted many times about the components of that package. And there's no way I can omit such things as ethics.

Y'know, when you've been doing something for danged near seventy years, you DO spend a bit of time thinking about the whole deal...
 
ZeroJunk, the thing is, all our game laws originated from what hunters wanted in the way of fair chase and ethics. Hunters started the game departments by pressure on legislatures, not the other way around. Granted, that's now changed, but don't forget how it started.
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I understand, it's not the hunters that concern me. I don't like the "canned hunt" any more than you do. But, the treatment of wildlife is influenced by the collective sense of sportmanship of hunter's rather than any logically deducted difference between game animals and those unlucky enough to be domesticated.
 
I want to reiterate the reason I started this thread. I really want to know where different individuals stand on this subject. If you go out and blast five hundred ground hogs today and call it hunting, good for you. Another fellow might not. I was curious about what different folks hunting compass points to.
 
Hunting to me is waiting patiently in a blind or stand for game to show up or stalking game thats hunting because if u come home with an animal u were succesful. if not u were still hunting. I look at it like this the cardinals lost the super bowl but they still play football.
 
If I just go walk off into the woods for a day or two people will think I am weird.
If I take a shotgun and say I am looking for deer most everyone seems to think the behavior is pretty normal.
 
A penned hunt... no, not hunting! Using dogs for a wild boar, yes depending on the situation. Spearing a pinned down hog not even close. Go cajun style, let the dogs pin it and you go in with a bowie knife maybe. JMHO, if your going to "HUNT" then it is your skill and knowlage v/s animal instinct!
 
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