Hunting

Well there are just some asshole hunters out there. Makes everyone look bad. Some people just kill shit to shoot something. That's why they make watermelons. take one to the range and go nuts.
Some folk are just carrying on a cultural ritual. Back home, its real common to go hunting after thanksgiving, stock up the freezer and eat on it for the rest of the season.
For me it's a bit of both. I love shooting things and for some reason killing animals (dont know why but I do). But I also love to feed my family and friends well fed so I get a lot out of it.

Mmmmm!!! Venison (I like Elk best, but deer is delicious)

My dear friend from Vermont is coming down with a cooler of venison for me this weekend I think...

He grows all the vegetables he eats organically, raises chickens for eggs and meat, raises hogs on whatever veggies don't pass the human food test, and only drinks raw milk straight from the cow's tit... well he puts it in the fridge first, lol...

but he also hunts turkey, deer, and rabbit for food, and manages the land he owns as a wildlife area with natural food that his quarry likes.

He saves the parts of the animals that people don't eat as dog feed for his pack of hounds.

This guy is VERY well educated and suffered from some pretty nasty and still not well explained medical problems that went away just weeks after switching to this ridiculously natural diet.

Healthiest person I've ever met, and honestly one of the most in touch with Nature.

Now, contrast him to my friend's lame husband who sells office furniture and has literally a basement den FULL of trophies... including pelts of animals that aren't typically food game...

I don't respect that sort of hunting at all.

I know this is a really touchy subject for some people but that's how I feel. When and if I ever move to a more rural area I'm pretty sure I'll take up rabbit and turkey hunting.

Venison sucks,,,give me beef...

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Originally Posted by FLORIDA MON

hunting is quite necessary, in some areas, since deer have been left without any natural predators (since we've killed all the wolves) and over run the area.

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True! With deer populations too high, all forest undergrowth is devoured and there is no natural buffer to keep sucking up excess nutrient runoff like a big sponge... controlled deer hunts are a necessity near me at the Quabbin reservoir, which supplies drinking water to Boston and the outlying areas....keeping the deer populations down allows for a healthy forest. And also without low shrubbery, other forest creatures have no cover or nesting areas and they become vulnerable to freezing and predation...guess what I studied in college, lol...

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Originally Posted by FLORIDA MON

Also, hunters are often strong enviromentalists and understand the consequences of upsetting the delicate ecosystem.

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Good hunters must understand their environment to be successful.

Florida mon ~ well put, there are a LOT of hunters around here that do wonders for the enviroment.

Friend owl ~ there are assholes in everything, there are even asshole weed smokers, who give the rest of us a bad name. dont judge every hunter, just like you dont want people judging us all because of stupid stoners, by what a few assholes do.



I went out this morning and killed four squirrels, i got two on monday so i'll be firing up the crockpot from some outstanding squirrely stew tommorow !

oh yeah...and i was going to say..hockey is awesome...go cannuks and bertuzzi sucks :D

i go evry once and a while to vermont dear hunting. The last time i got this beautifull buck with a compound bow. I have a hunting rifle but that year my uncle let me shoot his hunting bow.......very very cool. no loud bang, quiet stalking of the pray, and a silent kill.

If you lived anywhere near the mid-west you would understand deer hunting is a NECESSITY. There are almost a million deer just in the state of Ohio. They cause hundreds of accidents EVERY DAY just in Ohio. I almost hit one on a weekly basis. Not to mention a deer herd can destroy an entire farm crop for the year in effect bankrupting someone. They are actually increasing the number of deer to be taken each year because it is so bad here in Ohio.

That being sad I hate deer hunting, putting urine all over your clothes, sitting in a tree stand not moving talking, just doesn't apeal to me. I like wing shooting as long as someone else is cleaning the bird, that is about as far as my hunting prowess goes.

I would much rather go down to southern ohio to my dad's buddys "farm" and shoot ak's and sk's and basically every cool gun you can think of(he has a class 3 weapons permit), ride dirt bikes, and drink and blaze. My dad's friend is like hunter s. thompson except instead of a writer he is a nurse at children's hosp.

My friend Ryan and I still go up to this public shooting range about a half hour north of me and do some skeet shooting about once a week. Sometimes my other buddy comes and brings his h&k .40, and his .300 h&k which are very fun to shoot.

I'd much rather just bust off rounds and shoot at old phone books and clay pigeons than animals, but I don't have a problem with it. I am an avid fisherman and keep fish that are good to eat all the time, especially when I lived in Florida, I was eating fish couple-three times a week.

hunters = pussies? You my friend are what we call an asshole, and If I wanted to hear one i'd fart. You should be able to buy human permits cause there are a lot of stupid people that need to be "trimmed" from the herd....

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Originally Posted by dark0ne

i go evry once and a while to vermont dear hunting.
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Where in VT do you go? I used to work for fish and game there up in the Northeast Kingdom

BTW I have the utmost respect for responsible bowhunters.. it takes such incredible skill to make a clean kill.

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Originally Posted by bavet

I'm sorry but that has to be the most stupid thing I ever seen you type here.

It's unchristian to hunt?? yeah ok whatever!

And no, No one I ever knew hunted for fun and sport, You must first kill animals before you eat them.

Get your head out of your ass and stay in the getto so you don't nmake a fool of yourself in the country.

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Dude just shut the fuck up. I didn't direct my rant at you so don't fuckin talk about me for having my own opinion. Now get your head out of your ass and stop making a fool out of your self by picking fights on the internet.