Hunting???

Question

what are your thoughts on hunting in general? please dont just be all ( killing animals is bad dont do it) if you do feel that way , please include reasons why. im not looking for a fight just a mature answer on your thoughts. thank you

Answer 1

Hunting on the environmental level is necessary as a method of game management. Without hunting the populations of several game animals would become greater than the environment could support and many, many animals would die of starvation. The number of hunters in the US has been declining in recent years and some states have started lowering the minimum age of young hunters in order to get them started sooner and get them hooked on it.

On a personal level, I am a predator and I am not ashamed of it. I know and understand what I am, and I'm quite comfortable with it. I have no qualms in killing food. However after many years of hunting I have become more selective. I don't really hunt for big racks but I have been known to pass up little ones. This last year I harvest my deer with a handgun to make it more of a personal challenge. I spent more than three hours stalking to within 35 yards of a decent 4X4 mule deer before I took him. It was probably the most gratifying things I've taken on.

In my experience, most animal rights, anti hunting types are clueless about wild life. They have merely taken up with a fad cause in order to have something to identify themselves with. I believe they would be better served by trying to help abused children instead.

Answer 2

You are right,killing animals is not pleasant but I will hunt and kill an animal whenever I receive a license.However I come from a family of soft hearted animal lovers and most of the hunting I do is with a camera and would you believe it that I see most moose(and I see a lot of moose, caribou,and fox) etc. when I am either not ready or no camera.When you see movies of much killing for trophies or poaching it will turn anyone off and there is the questionable trappers,snareing of game ,idiots even rig large snares for moose and such .These large animals suffer for days the same as the small rabbits etc.Some of these heartless wonders are weekenders and the slips or snares are set all week long wheather empty or chocking ,struggling animal is in it or not. However most hunters are responsible hunters and the ones who do these other things are comparable to the jerks who do break and enter,steal someones hard earned property,volumes can be said on this subject. EDIT --excellent question,I"m sure most true hunters will appreciate this,and some of the comments here say as much ,Tanks.

Answer 3

I love to hunt it is written on my vehicle, my clothing, etched in my mind, talked about to my friends quite frequently, It is a part of me .
I use my amendment to bear arms, I take extremely good care of my arms so they are able to preform well in the field.
Hunting is a trait that we inherited from our ancestors maybe not necessarily the killing of animals, why I say this is because we as humane beings do hunt for other things think about it.
Getting back to the hunting part man has exterminated or interfered with nature by eliminating all the larger predators, this was done because of poulation people were having a hard time living to close to some of these predators,some though have become extinct.
so in turn we are over run with certain animals Deer and Elk for instance our society has developed groups called conservationist
that keep every thing going by having seasons so we can harvest and keep everything in balance.

This my own view and comment I hope it is understandable.

Answer 4

I think that hunting is a more humane way for humans to consume meat. I mean the meat you buy at the store came from animals that were raised on a farm their entire life and then brutally killed. Not to mention infested with steroids and all kinds of nasty chemicals. But wild game animals have a chance at living a full, free life. They are able to live in the wild as opposed to a cage, and many die from old age and not hunters. Put yourself in the animals shoes, would you rather be kept in a pen your entire life life then have your throat cut and bleed to death. Or would you rather live life in the open living how you want, and then instantly killed by a bullet traveling 3,000 feet per second.

Answer 5

Hunting is great. I love the outdoors and love spending time with nature. My brother and I go together all the time and always enjoy hunting together and camping out in the field. My one thought about hunting is that I don't like people who hunt for heads or don't eat what they kill. There are just too many people like that nowadays.

Answer 6

Hunting is a good way to control most populations and it can be enjoyable if done with family and friends and for the love of the outdoors. It's at it's best when people do it the right way the legal way it gives hunters a bad name when people poach.

Answer 7

Hunting is 100% necessary. Without hunting animals would over populate, eat all the food available to them, destroy the environment, and die a slow miserable death by starvation. Hunters also fund conservation in every state by purchasing license's, tags, and also help with reasearch.

Answer 8

in simple terms reall more advantageous hunter tip. Hunt as generally as a threat. Hunt something this is criminal and interior of your ethical obstacles. in case you incredibly comprehend each and all of the fundamentals then something is going to must be from the college of hard Knocks, with a level in Trial and mistake.

Answer 9

The ONLY reason we have any animals at all in the US is because of the American hunter. Tree huggers don't pay the bills ( not one dime, they just cry a lot) The hunters pay for wildlife management, and habitat with the license and taxes they pay. Take away the hunters and the animals will starve and die out.

Answer 10

I like venison, period. With all the additives (hormones, chemicals & bone meal) given to lifestock I have to wonder how 'good' beef and poultry products really are. One year when I was out of work I fed my family of six with venison (legally taken), wild pork and wild turkey. It really saved us money.

Now they are putting cloned products on market and they don't have to be labeled as such. Clones age rapidly (four to five years to the un-cloned donor). What will that do to us?

I'm thinking of moving back to the country and living off my own lifestock and legal game. But then, maybe I'm just... paranoid. LOL!

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