We were looking after two of our grandchildren while their parents had a much needed holiday. Our five year granddaughter was looking at my bow collection and asked the big Bambi question, "Why do you kill deer?" I said to myself, "Here we go". So I told her that I enjoyed hunting, that venison was delicious and very heathy for you to eat. She looked at me at for a minute and then said:
"Well I like pigs 'cause you can cut them up and get bacon."
Deer are a prey species that reproduces in numbers greater than the habitat can support without predation. They convert vegetation (including crops) into protein that predators (like us) use as a key component of our diets. It's called the food chain and like it or not, we're a part of it.
It is all about the hunt to me. The kill is just the end result. If I figured all the cost of hunting equipment and time spend beef would be much cheaper.
Well if'en you figure in costs that is anudder ball game. That bein said i had an old 22 n i bet i killed 60 deer wid it. I paid $20 fer it. Gave it to my oldest son yrs ago
agingcrossbower wrote:It is all about the hunt to me. The kill is just the end result. If I figured all the cost of hunting equipment and time spend beef would be much cheaper.
X2 . The time in the woods is all I need for a successful hunt.
I kill everything I hunt and eat it. Period. I don't harvest, I kill. Even though it's justifiable, necessary, and ethical, I make no excuses and give no other reason than
I AM A HUNTER.
Paul
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paulaboutform wrote:I kill everything I hunt and eat it. Period. I don't harvest, I kill. Even though it's justifiable, necessary, and ethical, I make no excuses and give no other reason than
I AM A HUNTER.
Paul
X2
very well said Paul
IN GOD WE TRUST
Jeff
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I hunt because it's what I have lived for and enjoyed for well over 50 years... Over those years I have found it's extremely hard to get that deer on the stove or a plate for that matter , if I don't "Kill It" first.
Truth be known, I really like Elk better, but classify them as just a really big deer.
Gene
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L. E. Carroll wrote:Paul I can see now that you don't hunt coyotes.
Gene
Gene, it's a good thing I wasn't eating or drinking anything when I read your response because it would have been everywhere but in my mouth! Well done!
CORRECTION: Some things like coyotes beavers I'll kill because they just need killing.
You're only paranoid if everyone isn't out to get you.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
My enemy's friend is also my enemy.
paulaboutform wrote:I kill everything I hunt and eat it. Period. I don't harvest, I kill. Even though it's justifiable, necessary, and ethical, I make no excuses and give no other reason than
I AM A HUNTER.
Paul
I can not say that I kill everything that I hunt. I fact one or two of my most memorial hunts ended without a kill. Both were spot and stalks. Both were unforgettable to me. There is nothing wrong with the kill and it is part of hunting but it is not the only thing to me. I know a lot of gun hunters that only hang their hats on what they kill and judge a successful hunt on it. They listen to me in amazement when I tell them a hunting story and it ends without a harvest. The rush of being in a preys bedroom and fooling them is like no other for me. Please do not think that I am judging anyone else's hunts because I am not. Go out and enjoy hunting for whatever reason.