I think these clowns actually believe that they are great, big, bad hunters. I'd be ashamed to have my picture taken with some poor animal that I'd killed in such a trumped up way. If you can't walk the walk, don't talk the talk.
2007-06-09 04:22:32 · 16 answers · asked by sparks 7 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
I think that people who need a guide and have to hunt in some fenced in area are only make believe hunters. I'd be the laughing stock of the country if my hunting buddies ever heard of me doing anything like that. They'd want to know where I kept my coonskin cap and buckskins.
2007-06-10 00:09:37 · update #1
Nope! These places are simply slaughter houses for people with no hunting skills.
2007-06-10 08:09:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Are they really hunters? I'm going to part from the rest of the answerers and say maybe...
For a person like me, an overweight 32 year old male who is fully capable of walking 10 to 20 miles in a day with a pack on, a guided hunt in an enclosed area is not hunting. Most likely, I would never consider it. If I needed to put some meat on the table, then maybe I would do it (I doubt it would ever come to that as it would be cheaper just to go to the grocery store). Some enclosures are quite large, but even the biggest enclosures don't allow the animals the freedom to escape to the best of their ability.
On the other hand, there are hunters out there who are not as fortunate as I am. They may be old and arthritic, they may be confined to a wheel chair, or they may have some disability that would prevent them from sitting on a treestand in cold temepratures for 14 hours a day (or prevent them from walking miles and dragging game out). For people like this, hunting in even a small enclosure could be a great effort.
Hunters are like George Foreman, they don't know when to hang it up (sorry...bad joke..I actually like Foreman). Even as people get into their 70's and 80's, hunting is still in their blood and a hunter lives for one last trip. If a person of poor or not so good health goes, puts in an effort that is extraordinary for them, and kills an animal in an enclosed area with a guide...I would still call them a hunter.
If I were to go and kill a domesticated pig (or even a wild one) in an 160 acre enclosure with an underpowered weapon, and take 3 hours to kill it like the kid who killed Hogzilla #2...I would be quite ashamed personally.
2007-06-09 08:01:58 · answer #2 · answered by Slider728 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok, I do not agree with canned hunts. As far as guided, open range, low fence, fair chase hunts go I have no qualls. Problem is, many of the HGF (high game fence) hunts enclose thousands upon thousands of acres, which encompase a deers natural range in habitat, they throw in a guide and whats the difference...BINGO!!! $$$$...Why should the rich landowner benifit off of a natural wildlife resource...Answer....Tax wright off... But I digress...If this is the landowners passion, so be it. Everyone needs a hobby. I only see a problem with this when small acreage is involved and if you can ride up in a hunting vehicle and the animals don't run. My biggest problem is how these animals are entered in the record books, there should be ***** by the entries.
2007-06-10 05:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by TDUBYA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The true canned hunt is not hunting and should not even be called or labeled a hunt!
These shoots are for ppl with no time and lots of cash to spend and they have no skills to be a hunter!
I wish these places were outlawed!
Any place that says 100% kill is no true hunt!
2007-06-09 06:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by Injun 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ok...I have absolutely no problem with people hunting with guides...If I was going to hunt in unfamiliar areas I would want someone with experience with me. Now I completely agree with the enclosed area part...its people that "hunt" in enclosed areas, and poachers that give real hunters a bad rap with the people who do not understand the differences.
2007-06-09 17:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by Andy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I grew up hunting in Indiana and there you have to actually hunt an animal to shoot it. Now I live in Texas, and I sit in a deer blind and shoot deer. It is more like target shooting than hunting. I dont like it as well as hunting them back home, where you actually hunt them, but it still puts meat in my freezer. Its quite possible that some of these people hasn't had the chance to go hunting somewhere else.
2007-06-09 05:05:57 · answer #6 · answered by coondawgtom 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To me they are just a different type of Hunter.. Not everyone hunts the same.. Why not accept and be tolerant of those who choose and can afford to hunt in this fashion..You will see more and more of this type of Hunting in the future because of posting of no Hunting on private property.. This is true even today in Pennsylvania and other States.........
2007-06-09 06:43:19 · answer #7 · answered by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
dang, youre not supposed to shoot a dove nest. I'm surprised that you can get out of bed in the morning without setting yourself on fire. My first kill was a doe, and it was a mixed emotion(it still is). You feel accomplished because you made a good shot and that you killed the animal without making it suffer. At the same time though you feel a little sad that you ended its life, and respect it for feeding your family.
2016-05-20 22:52:44 · answer #8 · answered by jacquelynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who are mean enough to go to their local sports club, go with a guide to a deer blind, and wait for the automatic feeder to start throwing out the corn which is the only meal these poor animals get a day, then pick out a big buck and shoot it in cold blood as it guides it's family to a pile of food so they can eat are not hunters. They are murderers. People who follow deer tracks through miles of woods and shoot the buck so they have food are hunters. If you don't eat the animal, don't kill it. Shoot your gun at a shooting range instead, like me.
2007-06-09 05:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by UTfan 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you're speaking of "canned" hunts I completely agree. In my opinion it's the same thing as going hunting in your local zoo.
I can see it now, the husband comes back home from a day of hunting and asks,
"Hey honey, do you know how to cook an anteater?"
2007-06-09 04:35:29 · answer #10 · answered by boker_magnum 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
search "boar hunting" in you tube and see what you get. i hunt every deer season, so i automatically take offense to what you are saying. its people like the people in some of the videos that give hunters a bad reputation. just know that not all hunters are mindless, drunken idiots with loaded weapons.
2007-06-12 19:48:32 · answer #11 · answered by T.Long 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋