Do you?
If you do it's fine by me, this is not a political statement by me not hunting just a personal choice, I have in the past shot a compound for target enjoyment but never against a critter or even a large animal.

I see the innocence in them and I refuse to kill them for food or sport.

And have lost or past on the the opportunity to have more friends because of my stance on this.

Am i a odd one in your opinion?

The only time i went hunting was when i was a young teenager,we were after rabbits.

Everybody missed with the rifle,i don't think anybody had the heart to kill them.

I would have killed them to survive though.

That's the game changer eh? Survival.

I don't hunt but I respect those who do, (IF their purpose is to kill their own meat).
If it's just for 'sport' or trophies I have no time for those dicks.

Could I do it?
Probably, I consider myself a bit of a realist.
Would I be comfortable doing so?
I imagine far from it, at least initially

feather wrote:
Totally agree killing for bragging rights is disgusting.

By the way the idea was to put a couple of rabbits in the pot to eat,not for any sadistic pleasure.

p.s. Is rabbit good eating? never tried it.

humanspirit wrote:

Fried rabbit prepared correctly is really good

humanspirit wrote: Yeah, yeah Doc, I believe you.

I don`t think it is odd that you don`t hunt. In Georgia a lot of people hunt or used to hunt and I often feel like I must be a freak to these guys because I do not hunt and do not eat meat. There are quite a few non hunters in Georgia even. Most of them are fine with eating meat but for various reasons prefer to pick their meat up from the store or share in the spoils when a friend shoots a deer. There is a deer that comes around my house quite a lot. The UPS man was delivering me a package one time and he looked over at the deer in the yard and said something like "there`s a freezer full of food right there". It is an odd response to seeing a deer from my point of view so I guess odd is all relative. It makes sense to me that if you plan to eat meat you should be the one to kill it, especially in times like these when we see such cruelty and unhealthy treatment of meat in the industry of food supply.

Rabbit is ok, yeah.

We would all eat less meat if we had to hunt it ourselves and possibly be healthier for it.
Although the way Monsanto etc is fucking with the flora side of things, that's not guaranteed

I don't hunt and cannot imagine any scenario in which I would - the closest I get to hunting is attempting to find chocolate when stoned.

Hunting for food is one thing - hunting for pleasure is imho disgusting.

I don't hunt, I think it's cruel.
But some people think it's ok, like him:

I bought my first air-rifle at 8yr old. a BSA Super-Meteor 2.2, oh was I Jack Palance.

Got home with my gun, and there was a crow sitting on the fence at the end of the garden.

Aimed, fired, and the wee guy died...........I have never killed another creature since, and have never fully got over the horror of what I did that day.

jhado wrote:
Yes I bet it did, my experience was almost the same, to bad our parents never mentioned the finality of death before we could inflict it on poor critters

Sometimes her Majesty does....

I don't get this hunting 'for 'sport'. If you want to hunt for 'sport' then strip naked and go chase and wrestle creatures with your bare hands.
Some guy going one on one with a bear - if he wins, fair play. But blowing some creature away with modern technology is not 'sport'. These hunters even buy cans of stuff to hide their scent. Lazy fuckers just want to kill stuff and feel big about it.
If you think you;re the mighty hunter, take down an elephant or lion with only the tools nature gave you. Hell, chase down a deer and rip its throat out with your teeth.
These so-called 'hunters' are bullshit. They're like big spoiled children who need all the odds in their favour.

dogsmilk wrote:
The ones around here treat their dogs like shit too. I've had a few run in's with them over that as well as some other 'issues' that have risen. I can't stand them. Pompous fucks.

i eat everything i killed and it feeds me through winter and sometimes keep the skins. its not really going in to the woods blowing down trees and killing everything and then laughing about it.. theres something about going there and being in nature, live out on the forest floor for a bit, follow a trail and find a good shot.. just maybe 1 chance for it or that deer is gone and you wont see it again. its really quiet and reflective time. nature is ok with you taking a deer if you dont be a dick about it, you respect the prey and the forest. and part of the balance of it all is with too many deer they eat too much food, or rather there is not enough, and so many deer starve slow and hard when overpopulated. its a mercy to thin the herd.

batou wrote:
What you're doing is miles away from the lot around me. It's like a Saturday afternoon fucking picknick outing except they have their guns instead of sandwiches and are dressed in toff type breeches with matching hats and barbour jackets. They also shoot pheasants that have been reared especially and are too fat to move fast, making their 'kill' even easier. There's usually about 20 of them, sometimes more.
There's a field they use about 20yards from my door and when they do, I've been known to open all the car doors and windows, throw on some really thumping dance music up full whack and leave it blaring. It interferes with their little day out everytime. I do this down to the fact that they totally abuse the 'no tresspassing' laws in Scotland and basically stand shooting right outside my house sometimes. I really don't like them and they really don't like me.

batou wrote:
You in upstate NY bats ?
Plenty of deer in the Catskills. Nice deer stew lovely, after letting the fuckers hang for a few days and let the birds peck the fat off Nothing like hunting for a scoff.

As for hunting big game in Africa, hmmm wtf is that about

no im down in wv, lots of whitetail up in these hills.

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