What’s so “manly” about hunting?

Question

I have a concealed carry permit, and I carry a .45. I have a shotgun for skeet, and a 22 rifle for plinking.

What is so manly about shooting a near defenseless animal from 400 yards away, covered in camouflage, special scents, tree stands, fake calls, etc. What part of that makes you a man?

Don’t give me the “it’s to control the population” crap because nature was controlling it’s own population way before we showed up. If anyone is overpopulating, it’s US! Besides if it was strictly to control the population, we’d have paid employees doing it. The looks on people’s faces tells me it’s not just a civic duty. I think it’s because certain men (a lot of them) get their jollies by killing a creature that didn’t even know you were there. To me that’s the ultimate in sissy-ness. It’s cowardly.

You want to be a real man? Why don’t you go try hunting grizzly bears with a pocketknife! Shooting a near defenseless animal and then beaming with pride just makes me sick.

Answer 1

it is a domb way to present manly hood but it gives men a sense of pride to kill something thats smaller than him and make it seem like hes the dominant specie and the so called "alphamale"

Answer 2

Who said it was "manly"? What most people do today, isn't even hunting. Hunting should include some form of tracking to at least even out the odds a bit. I see guys heading off to deer leases, so they can put out grain and sit in an elevated blind waiting for the deer to wander by and grab a free meal. That is sad and should not be called hunting. Its merely target shooting.

Answer 3

It really goes back a long way and today men do it with pride to provide food for their family. There is nothing wrong with hunting to provide food for your family.

Yea I know we can buy food at the store but that food is filled with chemicals from the food that the farmers who raise them put in it, like growth hormones and stuff like that. Hunting and killing a wild animal is natural we use to do it back in the day to provide food for our families and nobody had a problem with it then and there should not be a problem with it now.

I am female and I love to go hunting it is quite invigorating and gets the adrinaline pumping and besides that the meat taste great. Try it you might like it.

Answer 4

Nothing.
Me and a friend (from Georgia - we were both back from from a war), decided we'd go hunting. The night before the hunt we were having a drink and he looked me straight in the eye and said, "JAT, I have in my hands here an expensive marvel of technology. $450 worth of well machined, precisely tooled weaponry created to make a hole in a deer." We laughed so hard our sides hurt. That was the end of my hunting career.

UPDATE: To 'butterfly'. I have nothing against folks who hunt to survive or reduce their food expenses. I'd shoot poodles if I had to to feed my kids.

Answer 5

There is nothing manly about it. I personally think they are insecure. I'm glad to hear your stance on the subject.

Answer 6

it's a throw back to when we had to hunt to eat a la cavemen. it's part of our primal make up as much as watching a fire in a fireplace or camp fire. it's in our nature in other words.

Answer 7

Because if we didn't kill animals we would all be vegetarians.
"Vegetarian" is an ancient Indian word for, "Can't hunt worth a ****!"