2007-12-15 11:12:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
It's only a sport if you keep score. I don't, some do. It'll have to be up to the individual to decide whether or not they are competing with other hunters or not. I compete only with mother nature and her bounty.
2007-12-15 16:50:00 · answer #1 · answered by Stocky 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a sport because you are trying to think like the game or predict their habits. They have an advantage because you are in their home.
It is also fulfilling to experience nature whether you get anything or not (I know you don't have to hunt to do this but it is included in hunting too).
It is no longer a sport when you harvest an animal. It becomes work, sometimes very hard work. Someone once said, "the fun stops when you pull the trigger."
2007-12-16 06:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by Gerald G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't use to think of it as a sport, but I've reconsidered. I always thought of hunting as more of an activity instead of a sport. A sport to my mind involved competition against another person with a winner and loser. I've decided hunting is a sport but a non-competitive sport like mountain climbing.
2007-12-16 00:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by smf_hi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sport means an enjoyable physical or mental exercise.
The english invented the language and hunting was one of the very first sports they mention. "A finer manlee sporte than the chase and hunt of game you will not finde" and that sort of thing.
2007-12-15 23:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Yes if you are just going out to kill something for the fun of it. Any anti hunters get over it, we do and will keep doing. Its fun and challenging and physically demanding and not just anyone can do it. Same as "sports"
And no, if you hunt to put food on the table or sell the furs for a living. Anytime you HAVE to do something verses WANT to do something, kinda takes the sport out of it. And anyone whose tried selling fur for a living knows this.
2007-12-16 00:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a life style. Dont do it if you dont want to.
Mysty, show me where an animal has the same basic rights as a human ( were talking law here, not emotions). Then start living the life you seem to eschue. Dont eat any meat and remember that plants suffer too. Dont wear any products made by animals or dont use any products founded by the use of vivisection.
Kinda narrows down your life doesn't it? Get on Living or get on dying. Your choice, I am sure, would be dying for the sake of all animals. Try living off air ( remembering that air borne pathogens also have a life so maybe you shouldn't breath either)
2007-12-15 20:31:22 · answer #6 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hunting is the original sport. People of late have tried to redefine sport, equating it with childrens' games (played by adults for millions of dollars, of course), but including those in the definition of "sport" should not decrease the validity of the original. To do so is just sloppy revisionism at its least thoughtful.
2007-12-15 20:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is, if the game is intended for food, and the whole purpose of the hunt is NOT to use animals for target practice.
2007-12-16 06:55:20 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hunt for food
2007-12-16 09:10:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know people who hunt to put food on the table. So I guess it depends on your definition of sport.
Ted Nugent asked me to put this in here.
Hunting is now a constitutional right just like all the other freedoms you flower sniff'n tree huggers enjoy.
2007-12-15 19:17:37 · answer #10 · answered by Todd V 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋