Was a good day for deer hunting.

[Emg]

Not to mention all the tiny little toads and beatles that you MONCH over with your ruthless little grass killing machine Joe !!


BTW...I think we should start our own "ORANGE" string thread.....CARROTS UNITE !!

 

[Harlock]

I don't get why people feels good at killing animals. How would you like to be pursued in the woods by someone holding a gun? Why don't you make it fair and try to kill the deer with your hands?

If you accept being the prey, I will finally understand "sport" hunting.

I kill deer for meat. Plain and simple. Calling me a "sport hunter" is a definate stretch. In fact, I view it more as going to the grocery store, with a gun. I don't hunt bucks (I save those for the folks who give a rat's rump about horns) and I only shoot doe that come in without fawns. I will harvest a spike, since they are quite simply, smaller, less formidable bucks that most folks won't waste an antler tag on, but if they do mate, will produce smaller deer like themselves.

Also, I'm not all into this wearing camo, buying lots of gear, tracking down deer and shooting it. I sit in a blind with a magazine or a book and a bottle of water. I wait for a deer to come to my feeder. If it is big enough, without fawns etc. I bring my scope up on it. When viewed through my scope, deer cease looking like deer, they look like a freezer full of meat I can feed my family with. And, that, my friend is what deer are to me. They are a food source. They are abundant in West Texas. They are a renewable resource and since we are a one income family, the free meat comes in extremely handy.

So, spare me the "you need to be hunted for sport to know what it feels like" crapola. Deer are not smart. They have amazing instincts, but they are cattle, plain and simple. If I don't kill them, they'll starve to death because we haven't had rain in 3 months here and there is no grass for them to eat. How would I like to be pursued in the woods by someone holding a gun? No problem, I have guns too, and I can shoot pretty **** well. Besides, that is a strawman. It doesn't matter how I'd feel about it because again, it's not me being hunted and I am a higher order mammal. It's the food chain. Oh, and since this is an aquarium site, just what do YOUR fish eat? Thanks for playing.

 

[Harlock]

OK, I'll go start a thread about keeping five discus with an African cichlid tank and see how many people question the ethics. I stand by my previous statement that some of you people just don't like being disagreed with. This thread was practically an open invitation for comment.

I fail to see how such action would "prove" hunters wrong. Oh, I get it, another straw man.

 

[Larissa]

I will harvest a spike, since they are quite simply, smaller, less formidable bucks that most folks won't waste an antler tag on, but if they do mate, will produce smaller deer like themselves.

My father does this as well. He will also shoot bucks that have small or uneven horns because he says he's cleaning up the genepool.

 

[msouth468]

I dub this topic dead. Rest in peace...

 

[Aqualung]

I suspected it might go in this direction, since it's not a hunting site and in mixed crowds there are always a few antis. It's too bad that your thread had to take a wrong turn msouth. Do you belong to any hunting forums, and if so which ones? Shoot me a pm if you wish to respond to that, because I don't want the hunting forums to get flooded with anti propaganda.

Harlock - well said :thm:

 

[Omega]

I fail to see how such action would "prove" hunters wrong. Oh, I get it, another straw man.

That in itself would do nothing to "prove" hunters wrong. I was supporting the right or normalcy to disagree even though this isn't an anti-hunting website.

 

[Harlock]

That in itself would do nothing to "prove" hunters wrong. I was supporting the right or normalcy to disagree even though this isn't an anti-hunting website.

Ah, gotcha. Most times when folks disagre they post an opposing viewpoint, I mistook your supporting phrase as a oppositional view and wondered what it meant. No worries if you're stating and opinion and not backing it up.

 

[Omega]

Ah, gotcha. Most times when folks disagre they post an opposing viewpoint, I mistook your supporting phrase as a oppositional view and wondered what it meant. No worries if you're stating and opinion and not backing it up.

I'd love to back it up. I'm just not doing so, at least not anymore, because I've been asked not to.

 

[Aqualung]

Feel free to start a new thread on the subject Omega, since you seem to have a very strong opinion on this. I do get tired of debating this issue, but I'll be up for some discussion as long as it can stay peaceful and not end up in a locked thread.