I'm not against hunting are you?

Question

I was taught to hunt at an early age ,I grew up in rural area and it was the thing to do and to tell you the truth I still like to do it. I don't put people down for the things they like to do. Why can't the anti-hunters all get together and figure out something they like to do .Maybe have a hot cup of cocoa and watch the sun come up like my daughter and I did last Sat. during a youth deer hunt we didn't kill anything but I went home a better person ,blessed with the time I got to spend with someone I love so much. And not once did I stop and harass someone else for something they were doing.

How much game would be in the U.S. if ther where no hunters or game laws?

Answer 1

I am all for hunting. I have hunted since it was legal for me to do so and I eat (or donate) what I kill.

It takes a special breed of person to watch a beautiful deer browse through the woods, put the crosshairs behind its shoulders, pull the trigger, blow their heart and a lung out the other side, cut the thing open, pull its guts out while smelling the fermenting browse and grain, and think "hmmm...that'll make a great steak". Without people who can kill like this, the items carried at the grocery store would be much different.

What does annoy me are the people who say that the animals are defenseless and that the animals get hunted into extinction.

No animal is defenseless. Each animal has its own strengths and weaknesses. Deer have excellent sight, smell, and hearing and are very fast, but their curiosity gets them killed. Rabbits are fast, have great hearing, and can fit into places other animals can't go. Bears have great smelling abilities and brute strength, but have poor eyesight. Humans lack in strength, speed, smell, hearing, and sight, but their advantage is the ability to manipulate their environment and use tools. Nothing is poor and defenseless; each animal has its own niche and has something it is very good at that keeps it alive.

In terms of hunting animals to extinction, it has happened. However, it seems in America, people and companies spend money on animals that are eaten to keep the species thriving. There are more deer than ever. Every sporting goods store now has a aisle dedicated to food plot seeds and equipment, something I didn't see 20 years ago. States and Federal government regulate the amount of game to be taken.

Just my 2 cents

Answer 2

Here we go again: I hunt always will always have. Never will I stop doing it.

The anti's do have a hobby it is making the hunters life look life some kind of Neanderthal practice..Barbaric in some way.

They fell to realise the following:
1) BMW's and wild game do not mix: Scratched paint and Dents

2) The Domestic COW was once a wild hunted animal as were all domestic animals

3)The choice to fight hunters hurts the hunted animals in the long run

4) They fail to see that it is not as in the old days with wholesale slaughter....If they need something to complain about fight the Hunting lodges in South and Central America or in Africa over bird hunts.

5) Hunting is never easy...Even with "bait" , calls, scents, etc. You can spend a complete day in the woods and never see a thing. Can;t do that in the meat dept of grocery store..You are guaranteed to see some packaged meat.

6) They do not figure the "WILD" animals would over-populate and come into the cities and towns and consume human left-overs and the herbivores would be eating the tulips.

I will never fathom nor understand what the fuss is over. I have more respect for the animals I harvest every year than anything else. I consume 90% of each animal. I have been known to tan deer hides and coon hides. They will never understand.

Answer 3

I am all for hunting. It gives my family time together and fills our freezer every fall. Tonight we had deer burgers, and in the next day or two I am sure it will be elk stew.

Game herds are managed by state wildlife agencies. A balance is needed to keep the animal populations healthy. Hunting is an integral part of that balance.

We hunt animals for food, and eat all that we shoot.
Wild game is good for you! Lean meat with no added preservatives or growth hormones.

Happy Hunting!

Answer 4

Personally, I hate hunting; only because I just don’t have the stomach for it. I am in no way opposed to hunting so long as you plan on eating whatever it is you’ve hunted; killing animals just for the heck of it just seems kind of wasteful. I’m just a squeamish type of person, I have tagged along hunting trips, but the end result just grossed me out. I’ve always found it kind of funny that someone would have fond, pleasant, nostalgic memories of stalking down a furry woodland creature and blowing its brains out. Some of my fond, pleasant, nostalgic memories involve camping in New Mexican canyons with my family.
Now, please understand that I’m not against hunting. As far as I understand hunting deer [for example] keeps potential overpopulation of deer in check and is only a minor factor in the equation. Even hunting for sport alone (as mentioned before) never struck me as bad, it just seems impractical and wasteful; why spend the money on hunting gear if you’re not going to enjoy the spoils of the hunt? The same goes for hunting other animals as well.
Many hunters [and the same goes for fishermen] I’ve spoken to find that being out in the midst of nature very therapeutic; they get to return to the natural environment apart from what the man-made environment people have made around themselves. I enjoy camping and, as you mentioned, watching the sun rise with a nice warm cup of cocoa. Really, whatever you do to relax, enjoy nature and so on is just fine with me; I just don’t like the prospective blood and guts involved with hunting.
Our ancestors had to hunt in order to live, some even that lived a short two hundred some odd years ago. So why is that such a vulgar, sinful, evil practice today? Granted I could understand antagonism if you were poaching endangered species or something like that, but I assume you aren’t. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HUNTING! Some of the best jerky I ever had was from a friend of mind who shot a big ‘old honk’n buck. Kudos for Deer Jerky!

Answer 5

I believe that God put animals on Earth for man's use. This means that it is okay to hunt animals. Plus, they hunt each other, hunting for food is a natural part of life and always has been! I believe that vegetarians need to realize that, yes it is okay to kill to eat and hunting could be very useful. However, I agree with the other ppl who answered and said that you should only hunt for food or some other purpose. I think spending a nice family day fishing or hunting is fine, but part of the experience is gutting the fish and frying it, you know? If you think hunting is a sport and only a sport, I suggest you switch hobbies.

Answer 6

No, hunting is an important aspect of life. I have taken my children hunting with me since they were able to pass their hunting safety course. I educate all my children and grand child on gun/bow safety, whether they choose to hunt or not. Hunting is the only legal way to hands on train today's youth the respect needed for both the killing instrument and the game hunted. Not some video game where violence is removed and unrealistic. If more people hunted, more people would respect life.

Answer 7

To Fruitcake:
I love this stupid statement you just made: "Hunting is a horrible passtime. It is cruel and unfair to animals. Hunting has driven many species either to extinction or to the brink of it. "

This just shows how ignorant you are. Yes, in the past it has happened. But, just to set the record straight, it was people like you crazy city dwellers in the late 1800's and early 1900's that caused the problems. This was also before any game laws were present. There were no regulations, and people just assumed the animals would always be there, and in many cases these meat hunters provided food for small towns and villages...not to mention, in the case of the buffalo, the US government understood that the only way to beat the plains indians was to kill off it's food supply...so the promoted the hunting of bison...and their plan worked.
Also, it has been the conservation efforts of hunters, not peta pansies or whiney cityboys, that have brought many species of animal's populations back up to a healthy number...not to mention the fact that in many states such conservation efforts have reintroduced species that were gone from the area.

And to jetgirl...grow up, and get educated. The animals Gandhi was speaking of were working animals...the treatment of working stock...not the hunting of edible animals. I feel no need ot further this conversation, except to say that you have absolutely no right to shoot off at the mouth about anything that has to do with hunting. Somehow you are better than me, because you let someone else kill your meat? You prefer them to strap a cow to a wall and walk up to the living animal, shove a knife in it's neck, cut it all the way around, from one side to the other, and let it bleed to death and drown in it's own blood at the same time? Yeah, that's alot better than a quick death from a bullet.

Oh, and since we are being educational and quoting Gandhi today, I got one for all you anti-gunners out there:

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

Yeah, Gandhi said that. Look it up.

BTW, sorry for the rant...I'm just sick of these stupid, uniformed, unresearched, sheeple responses we are constantly getting. In today's society, with a vast well of knowledge at our fingertips, such igorance is simply unacceptable.

Answer 8

Amen to that! I love to hunt-not so much shoot a gun, but I love just sitting in the woods, and watching wildlife. I don't always shoot what I'm hunting for-I really enjoy watching the 'woods' wake up. I can't stand all the anti-hunters, anti-fishermen, etc. They need to get a life, you know?

Answer 9

I have nothing at all against hunting, but I hope you (and other hunters) are eating and/or otherwise using the game you kill. Killing for killing's sake is wasteful and stupid. Eat the meat, use the hide, etc. Don't just hack off a head and stick it on the wall.

Answer 10

I don't mind people who hunt as long as they eat what they kill. Hunting shouldn't be thought of as a sport. I grew up quite poor & ate a lot of wild game. I dislike the people who hunt, kill, & then don't eat or use the meat.