The real reason for the Hunt

A nice clean kill with a gun or bow is much nicer to experience than to think about how they do it in a factory. At least the animals in the wild have a chance. They also taste better and cost less to harvest yourself. Mind you, some hunters give other ones bad names. Like when they take too much or wound and not track an animal.
 
Sooo...

...Why exactly are you posting on a hunting forum? Just trying to push your own politcal agenda?

Personally I can't go hunting. There's simply too much violence in this world and I can not morally justify killing another animal. To experience nature I go hiking and rather than taking meat with me when I leave, I take pictures. Killing is simply somethign I don't want to do.
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Did you ever eat a hamburger or checken breast or piece of fish? Then you're a complete hypocrite. That hamburger came from a once-living cow, the chicken breast from a once-living chicken, that salmon-fillet from a once-living fish.

Hunting is a camaraderie among those who enjoy the sport and like to put food on the tables for their families.

You're nothing but a troll and shouldn't be here. :barf:
 
That was a totally unwarranted response, something I usually don't find here. I in no way challenged the idea of hunting merely addressed my viewpoint on it. I eat free range and organic meat however I do realize my viewpoint has a sense of hypocrisy however I am not involved in the killing of these animals. I hope to never have to pull a trigger on a living thing no matter what species it belongs to for no matter one reason. This does not prevent me from being an avid shooter though. Shooting for me will never lead to hunting. That doesn't mean I am making any judgements about what you do with your guns.

Please don't try and jump down my throat next time :(
 
The Hunt

I am really So sorry to have started a fight over something so Dear to my heart,, But I do have to agree with Charles s and Sheeter 1, on this, and as far as DReicht , you have your own right to do and think as you please,
God Bless you all,!!! PLEASE, Let's all remember who we are?? and what we are?? and why we are here,??? GOD BLESS
Zeek 5793
 
I think we responded harshly because we were talking about the reason for hunting. Not the reason for not hunting. It's kind of like walking into a police station and talking about anarchy. You just don't do it. But whatever..... free speech.
 
Zeek it was in no way you're fault. And Skeeter I was simply giving my opinion on why I don't hunt, I just wanted to be part of the group! :) In all seriousness, I promote hunting for a variety reasons I just know that it isn't for me.
 
In all seriousness, I promote hunting for a variety reasons I just know that it isn't for me.
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I respect that. I hope I did not come across too strong.

I do firmly believe hunting is essential to the health of our game animals now. Balance is part of nature and part of balance is preditation. I believe that we have a responsibility to take manage (read that as kill) a certain amount of the game in order to prevent over population and depleation of resources.

I do respect your views and your feeling.
 
I'm with Stuck on 308, gotta call B******t on the reason for posting just wanting to join the group!
If you dont like hunting, post on the target forums, no need to come on here whining about how it isnt for you, if it isnt thats your choice, but this thread is about hunting period.:barf:
 
Awesome picture of the woods. You kind of motivated me to put my camera in my pocket on the way to the stand.

At just 20 years old I love to hunt, and have shared it with everyone I have gotten a chance to. Im allready responsible for many first deer, and I love it. I spent more time this year worrying about where I was going to let my friends hunt than where I was going to set up myself. I have never before felt so dissapointed that deer season was over as I have this year. O well turkey season will be here soon, and I think im going to go try some some squirrels this afternoon.

heres a picture od the sun coming up over the backside of our property in central alabama. got to love it.
 

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Hunting started hundreds and hundreds years ago and people had to hunt to survive. If our ancestors had not hunted, there is a posibilty that you would not be here today. Today our survival does not entirely depend on it but if SHTF atleast we would know how to hunt and fish for food. Hunting also keeps nature in balance. Over population of animals only leads to disease and starvation. Animals suffer alot more under those circumstances. It is a check and balance system. If you do not believe in hunting then don't try force your agenda on other people. If you want to go around and hug trees and kiss the earth go ahead, you have that right, but just don't come into the woods doing that while I am hunting.
 
That's a great picture, piercfh.

I snapped a similar picture this season:
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Also, here's a panoramic view of the tree stand. It's a bit distorted due to stitching individual snap shots together. The tree line on the left and the tree line on the right form a straight tree line behind me as I was snapping the pictures. Can't wait to sit there again next season!
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The fact that too many people don't hunt today explains much about how societal values and people in general have become distorted, fragmented, and run amuck. Among people I grew up, though they left lots to be desired in other aspects, they always suspected something to be decidedly wrong with those who didn't hunt or fish or have some regular form of outdoor sports activity like it. Life ever since then has only confirmed the theory.
 
Zeek it was in no way you're fault. And Skeeter I was simply giving my opinion on why I don't hunt, I just wanted to be part of the group! In all seriousness, I promote hunting for a variety reasons I just know that it isn't for me.
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The guys are right DRiecht, your comments didn't belong here. sorry but is is impossible for you to understand having never walked in those shoes.


Zeek5793,
I know what your saying for sure. There are memories with my farther or son, who is no long here, That I will cherish forever and wouldn't trade for a winning lotto ticket. Dad's 83 now and I as time goes on I find I am looking forward to hunting season more than in times past as I know some day we can't do that together again. He took me deer hunting when I was 12. I will never forget it.
Those boys will never forget those elk with you as I will never forget the one my boy shot when we were hunting together, or being with my Dad when I shot my first.
 
True words, there

Too often us guys get the macho and afraid to tell our father's how much we love them, and I try to remember that as a father as well.
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My dad taught me how to shoot, camp, and hunt, yet we never really expressed any affection for one another. That's a shame. The only talking we do now is in my prayers or when I go to visit his gravesite. :(
 
Zeek you're right

I'm 43 and in my hunts everytime a good deer (130-140 B&C) crooses in front of me I just think of next day when one of my children will be hunting so he can take the shot, some exceptions when is an excelent deer 150+ I just take it :D and if one of my boys is with me he will take it:cool: , GOD BLESS AMERICA
 
great photos!

I have a fresh desktop covered in snow and a sunrise for later.

Nothin like cooking a meal of wild game and reliving the memories. There is something deeply satisfying about hunting that is hard to express in words. I guess it relates to touching roots in today's busy world. Sort of a psychological orgasm. Probably only makes sense to me...
 
I think it goes something like this in hunting, start out wanting to have fun, wanting to kill the most, wanting to kill the biggest, wanting to have fun.
 
DWARREN123, there's a natural progression with age that's been noticed many, many times.

We start out rather eagerly to kill something, not being particularly selective. We progress to being selective for various reasons, such as herd numbers, habitat, trophy size, barren doe, whatever. The deal is selectivity.

Somewhere in one's forties, approximately, the idea of teaching others enters into the equation. By one's fifties, teaching and/or helping other, younger or newer hunters, quite often becomes more important than one's own success.

One reason I enjoy the Internet is that I can pass along many of the bits and pieces I've learned over a rather large number of years. "Satisfies that school-teacher part of me."

Still learnin' stuff, too.

Art
 
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