Do you hunt? what is your view?

Question

Also please list what city u live in and if it is a rual, suburnan, or urban eviroment.

Answer 1

I am a resident of Michigan who lives down state in a rural community. I am a hunter and one who adamantly believes in it. The state of Michigan has a very large whitetail deer herd. The number of car deer accidents is outrageous. The deer drive up car insurance prices as well as destroy farm crops when they are in too great of numbers. The hunters in Michigan are necessary to manage the deer herd. Without them I see no way of resolving the aforementioned problems.

Answer 2

Yes, I hunt. I don't actually live in a "city", because I don't think there are enough people for it to be classified as one. We have less than 30,000 people living here, and it's pretty rural. I live in Kansas, and just about everyone I know hunts, or has a family member than hunts. It's kind of a tradition around here. My view is that it's good for the enviroment, and it's been going on since the beginning of time, so let it keep going. I don't really agree with people from the big cities, who don't really know much about hunting, leasing up all of the ground around here, and taking away good hunting land from people who used to hunt there. I guess to some, money is more important than tradition.

Answer 3

Yes, I hunt and have done so all of my life.

I live in a city. Which one is not relevant.

I have the good fortune of having around 250 acres of family land to hunt on. The down side is that it is located several hours away from my home. However, I am generally able to "tag out" each season on opening weekend.

My personal view from a lifetime of involvement that hunting is fun and provides a net benefit to the environment. What most urban folks don't realize is that predation plays a very important part in the maintenance of a healthy population of any animal that lives towards the bottom of the food chain. It's known as the balance of nature. In a given animal's range there are a limited number of resources for which they compete. If the species becomes overpopulated due to a lack of predation then one of nature's crueler check and balances takes over. It's known as starvation.

Additionally, selective hunting can improve the "quality" as well as the quantity of game animals. This I have seen first hand over a period of several decades with the local deer population in the area where I hunt. For example, limiting your hunt to one male and only harvesting the larger ones accomplishes a couple of things. Firstly, it ensures that the one you kill has had a couple of years to spread his genes. It also ensures that there will be plenty left to populate as one male can service several females. In years when the population becomes too heavy one can include a female or two in the harvest as well. This is exactly why there are bag limits enforced by the parks and wildlife departments. They have skilled biologists who keep track of populations and determine what is appropriate for each county.

Then there is the question of nuisance animals such as feral (wild) hogs. These critters breed very rapidly, are quite destructive to crops and property, and compete for food with other species that one may want to encourage. One can harvest fairly large numbers of these types of animals without endangering their population while at the same time giving a boost to other critters (not to mention the farmers).

As far as the meat goes, if properly cared for it is, in my opinion, much healthier than the hormone injected, methane farting beef and poultry that one gets at the local supermarket. Also, because it was raised in a wild environment it did not contribute to deforestation, pollution, or other byproducts of the commercial food industry. Additionally, the animals had a wonderful natural life up until they met the predator that did them in (that would be the hunter), which is much more than I can say for cows and chickens.

Answer 4

I do not hunt, but my father and brother and half the family does. I encourage anyone who's interested to try it. Man has reduced or eliminated the predators at the top of the food chain in many of the environments where he lives, so he must replace them. Otherwise, we'd be overrun with prey animals, until they starved and the population crashed.

I also live in southern Michigan. There are tons of white-tail deer here. The herd is managed by the state and by private groups so that there are lots of deer for hunting season. That means that there are car-deer accidents often. I've personally hit at least 3 so far, and they can do thousands of dollars of damage to a car, and cause serious personal injuries to the occupants. Without hunters to cull the herd, there would be literally hundreds of thousands of deer starving all over this state. And multiply that by 30 or so to get the number nation-wide. Those of you who oppose hunting as cruel would actually be condemning these animals to a long, cruel, suffering before they finally died of starvation and disease.

Answer 5

I live in a large metro area of over 2 million.

I don't need a "view" on hunting. Hunting for food has been a element of the human experience for as long as we have been here.

That some modern urban philosophers think there should be a debate here is folly. Being an "anti-hunter" perverts the very laws of nature and mankind. I don't tolerate perverts.

Answer 6

Yes, I do hunt.
My "view" on hunting is that it is a way of life. I mostly hunt whitetail deer. I do rifle hunt a bit, but my true passion is bow hunting. I hunt for many reasons: quiet relaxation in the woods, excitement of being close to deer, anticipation of the shot, memories, filling the freezer, spending time with the family, etc.....the list could go on for days>>it's just what I do.
To say you only hunt for meat would be a ridiculous statement. Most people in America live very close to a grocery store and last time I checked..... they still sold meat. After weapons, tags, ATV, processing, cammo, and other countless investments, a pound of deer meat would probally cost more than $100 a pound. So if you hunt just for meat....I don't buy it. The excitement of the hunt is what I crave and what brings me back to the woods time and time again.

I live in rural North Carolina.

Answer 7

I don't hunt this year. :( Next year I move back to the midwest to a small town in prime hunting and fishing country. Between my husband and I, we don't plan on buying much meat or fish for the first two years.

Right now my view is of the rest of my housing development and some hills in the background. There are lots of Christmas decorations out and my neighbor forgot to bring her trash can back in yesterday.

Answer 8

I live in Central Florida, right outside of a nice sized city. My father, brother and I hunt every year. We don't just hunt for the sport though. Any deer we kill is brought home and eaten. I dont believe in hunting for sport, it's a waste.

Answer 9

Yes. My entire family hunts. The meat is harvested, and I live in Georgia, small city. We have a food drive for the local pantries called "Hunters against Hunger", all deer meat is donated. Great program.

Answer 10

i don't hunt, i love animals too much to kill them myself. however, i don't mind other people hunting, especially overpopulated deer. i definitely do not support hunting bears or any other more exotic animals. i think it's just a huge waste. i don't support hunting anything unless the animal is actually used, not just killed. unfortunately there are a lot of idiots out there who hunt drunk. plus there are stupid people who hunt coyotes but end up killing wolves which is illegal (at least here in Illinois) because they're too dumb to know the difference. i have no problem with smart, well informed, safe hunters.