tahunua001
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I think I only got a B for it.Tahunua, I'll bet that was a good paper.
I think I only got a B for it.Tahunua, I'll bet that was a good paper.
Takes zero skill or intelligence. My 12 year old niece in Alabama bagged a deer….
the OP has even gone so far as to limit it to trophy hunters rather than meat hunters, yet everyone else just seems to read the words "hunting is unethical, and hunters are bad".
Hey I wouldn't say anything if trophy hunting wasn't held in some regard. Frankly "hunting" is not the proper term it's just shooting and killing, just like Buffalo Bill and those easterners slaughtering buffalos from train cars. Takes zero skill or intelligence. My 12 year old niece in Alabama bagged a deer….
With all due respect, until you've hunted, taken the life of an animal, felt the body cool as you cleaned it and then fed your family and friends with the flesh, your criticism is without merit.
Eli Cash said:Anyway it just bugs me, especially when I see hand gun hunters. You have to be such a danged good shot to drop an animal with a hand gun and the goal as I understand it is one shot=down..
Originally posted by Eli Cash:
RE: We are "smarter" due to a meat protein diet I present the Gorilla, canine teeth, pretty darned smart for non-humans, incredibly powerful; vegetarians.
Sure they get some protein from bugs and such but they do not hunt or scavenge meat. There are more dumb as rock critters who are carnivores. The teeth evolution doesn't entirely fly. Are you aware all the "human evolution" up to Homo sapien is based on a very small collection of bones? No complete skeletons.
not the 800 pounds of meat off that elk.
this is kindof a bit overly critical of criticism. that is like saying until you've become an elected official, any criticism of president Obama has no merit. until you drink and drive you have no room to criticize drunk drivers. there is always room for outside criticism. now I will second that actually participating in a task can give a lot more incite than what you read in magazines and see on the outdoor channel but to say that observational criticism has no merit is completely wrong.With all due respect, until you've hunted, taken the life of an animal, felt the body cool as you cleaned it and then fed your family and friends with the flesh, your criticism is without merit.
this is pretty much correct. an 800 pound bull is going to be a very old animal and not likely to be very edible anymore. in addition to horns, bones(about 40 pounds), hide(about 30 pounds), inedible organs(50 pounds), fat, tendons, sinew, and other inedible tissues(close to 100 pounds)... subtract all that and what you have leftover is the amount of actual, edible meat from your average elk.Nothing to do with the discussion, but this is a common myth. Elk are nowhere near that big. 800lbs live weight including horns is a whopper. Most mature bull elk killed are closer to 600-700lbs on the hoof.