For Active Hunters?

Question

While I know there will be quite a LOT of persons answering this without being hunters, I'd appreciate that they keep their comments for themselves. This are some questions that I'm working with for my Psychology class.

Your feeling when you aim and shot.:
your feeling once you carry the corpse:
your feeling when you hear about a murdering:
your feeling when you see someone in a coffin:
Same as before but the someone is a close person to you:
Do you own a pet?
Do you own a garden?
Preferred hunting method:
Preferred prey:
Feelings toward your alive prey:
Feelings toward predators of your prey:
After you've killed something, do you feel guilty? Dirty? bad?
How bad is that feeling?
your age:
your sex:

Eazy, please answer each question and not only the guilt one, I really need them.

Alfalfa's answer is quite a good example of what I'm looking for, details in every aspect.

Answer 1

1. I don't feel much while taking the shot. It tends to have become pretty much automatic over the years. So not nervous or much excited anymore. I tend to feel the excitement when I realize that I am onto a good example of what I am after.
2. Happy. The usual term is carcase instead of corpse. Whatever. It depends on the condition of the animal, how far I had to carry it and how tired I am. A moose for example is a very large pile of meat. If it needs to be moved 2 miles to transportation it is a lot of work. A deer is likely light enough to just drag out.
3.That depends a great deal on if I knew the people involved. It also matters why the murder happened.
It is worse if children are involved.
The thing is that people die every day, and accidental death or death by stupidity is often worse than murders are. If I don't know the people, or if it is just a news story I really do not feel much. The police and everybody are already doing everything that they can do. If the case is really bizarre or is a mystery I am likely to be a bit curious about it, but that is all.
4. I already know they are dead, so all I am looking at is a body. As far as I am concerned the person is gone and my concerns are for the living, the dead are beyond anything I can do for them.
5. About the same as answer 4, I have done my grieving when they died, and will finish my grieving later. The funeral is for the living, not for the dead.
6. I used to own pets. I don't anymore simply because I am away to much and it would not be good for them.
7. I used to have gardens to, but again, I am away to much to look after them.
8. It depends on what I am hunting but generally I prefer to hunt on my own with a rifle. I tend to split it between blind and still hunting styles.
9. I like most types of game. Partridges are very nice. I like deer and moose very much. I have never been after anything really exotic or rare. I used to like bear in the spring both for the quality of the fur and for the lean tenderness of the meat. I never liked fall bear because they are too fat for my taste at that time of the year.
10. I like animals. I can admire them for their qualities and their grace. I find wild animals more admirable for some reason than domestic ones. I suppose it is because they still have the intelligence and toughness they need to survive naturally.
11. I find most of the predators very admirable. Keep in mind that without the wolf the deer would not exist. If it was not for the wolf's need to chase down and kill a deer or moose then deer and moose would not be alert, fast or graceful. If the deer and the moose were not fast, graceful and alert then the wolves would not be smart, strong, enduring or co-operative in their packs.
The prey shapes the predator just like the predator shapes the prey. It is all connected, all one organism.
12. Not a bit of guilt or shame unless I botched the killing and caused the animal to suffer for no reason.
13. The same as above.
14. 51
15. Male
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Additional. I am not a trophy hunter, and I do not hunt to prove I am a man. I hunt because I enjoy being in the woods and because if I buy a licence and spend a week camping to kill a moose it is time very well spent. A two year old female moose which has not had a calf yet is better meat than the best beef you can buy. It fills my freezer just fine.
I tend to feel worse about beefing a cow than killing a deer, but to be honest that does not bother me much either.
I outgrew the Bambi story a very, very, long time ago.

Answer 2

I always appreciate a question that has no obvious agenda. Yours isn't one but I'll answer anyway.

Your feeling when you aim and sho(o)t.: Anticipation and concern. Will it strike true and kill cleanly, wound, even miss?
your feeling once you carry the corpse: The carcass? Elation
your feeling when you hear about a murdering: Curiosity. What lessons can be learned from the event?
your feeling when you see someone in a coffin: Depends greatly on who it was and how he died.
Same as before but the someone is a close person to you: Same as before
Do you own a pet? No
Do you own a garden? Of sorts
Preferred hunting method: Taking targets of opportunity while walking about
Preferred prey: Small game
Feelings toward your alive prey: Interest and curiosity
Feelings toward predators of your prey: Interest and curiosity
After you've killed something, do you feel guilty? No

Dirty? No

bad? No

How bad is that feeling? How bad is what feeling?

your age: 40s

your sex: Male

Answer 3

being a deer hunter, and knowing that i will consume all the meat, and prevent the deer from possible starvation or being hit by a car outweigh any guilt i feel. the rush you get right before the shot is what it's all about. i love animals, and have had numerous pets. do you eat meat? eggs? do you feel bad knowing how those products are produced? unless you're vegan, don't lay any guilt trip on me.

i don't feel any guilt at all, because where i'm from, hunting is necessary for population control, and i grew up doing it.

Answer 4

Fate is "something inevitable". I think that if it is really fate you will be where you are supposed to be at the right time and right place. If you are a hunter and you find what you are looking for then I call it luck.