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so a couple questions for the hunters on our board:
- why do you hunt?
- what do you hunt?
- what do you hunt with?
- what do you do with the carcass, meat, pelt?
Keep this in mind when answering: I do not at all understand how someone can rationalize going around shooting animals for fun. This is the part I really want to understand, the rest is to give your thought process context for me.
4)Eat the meat(enough to supply my families ground meat/ sausage needs for most of the year, donate what we don't need to "hunters for the hungry", discard guts etc.., Sometimes tan deer hides for blankets/rugs
ok, I was hoping for elaboration on #1. sport is not an acceptable answer.
Ok
like Jduet said, its been a tradition in my family to hunt forever. My grandfather taught me to hunt when I was 6 yrs old. He remembers being poor and not being able to buy food so his family hunted. Its a skill passed down, so that should I ever be in the situation that I cannot monetarily provide food for my family, I can go out in the woods and find food to eat.... and EVERYTHING we kill, we eat... now finding a wife who knows how to clean and gut is an issue (tho I can do it myself)
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ok, I was hoping for elaboration on #1. sport is not an acceptable answer.
Just because you don't like the answer does not mean it's an acceptable answer.
It may not be acceptable to you. But that does not negate the fact that it has been done for centuries, and that it is an accepted reason.
For what it's worth, I personally do not like sport hunting. I do not like to kill living creatures and I gain no enjoyment from it (I gain the opposite actually). I have never in my life killed an animal for sport.
I have killed pests for pest control, and aggressive animals that were threatening my pets. But never for sport.
I would however like to go hunting once in my life. To have that experience. But it would not be for "Sport" as I would be doing it primarily for food.
no I meant 'sport' as abrevviated to a one-word response isn't what I was looking for. I wanted exactly what Knupte wrote as a follow up. I didn't mean that hunting for sport is not a legitimate answer, hence why I didn't say legitimate.
and again, that is why I am asking. One thing Knupte touched on makes a lot of sense: it really is a good skill to have... especially if you ever go camping, or live in remote-ish areas... you never know what can happen.
and I agree, venison is an amazing meat. I have killed animals for food in my life, just to clarify, so I am not ignorant about that aspect or think there is no merit in it.
keep em coming (with all the gun collectors on here I figured there would be more.)
no I meant 'sport' as abrevviated to a one-word response isn't what I was looking for. I wanted exactly what Knupte wrote as a follow up. I didn't mean that hunting for sport is not a legitimate answer, hence why I didn't say legitimate.
and again, that is why I am asking. One thing Knupte touched on makes a lot of sense: it really is a good skill to have... especially if you ever go camping, or live in remote-ish areas... you never know what can happen.
and I agree, venison is an amazing meat. I have killed animals for food in my life, just to clarify, so I am not ignorant about that aspect or think there is no merit in it.
keep em coming (with all the gun collectors on here I figured there would be more.)
As a young man of 25 . What hunting have you done when you say you killed animals for food ?
1-food/sport / bonding / and to know how to survive if I had to .
2-deer / Turkey / I'll include all fishing
3 -44 cal revolver with scope / shot gun / fishing pole
4- Mount antlers , give pelt and most of the meat away / food / I return all fish to the waters
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I don't and have never hunted. my uncle has a farm. I have killed animals that were raised for food, and prepared them (skinning, gutting, cleaning etc)
4. Used to butcher it ourselves, but lately, we've just been letting a friend's business take care of that. Hide is made into gloves. Antlers, if big enough, are mounted with the deer's entire head/neck.
After this past year, however, I think I'm done hunting for now.
I don't and have never hunted. my uncle has a farm. I have killed animals that were raised for food, and prepared them (skinning, gutting, cleaning etc)
What raised animals have YOU killed /gutted/skinned/and cut up for meat ?
Did you watch your uncle do this , or did you actually help do it ?
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but guys: I was really hoping for much more elaboration than one word answers...
You didnt answer the question of ...what animals ? Were they pigs / cows /chickens /goats ?
The reason I ask is , you seem to have been [ maybe ] traumatized by your experience on the farm . Are you asking people why they hunt and kill animals because of this trauma ?
In most of rural america , hunting and fishing is a way of life . Its more of a sport these days than putting food on the table . Its a way for people [ mostly men ] to spend time together . For some , its being able to put a trophy on the wall .There are plenty of reasons why men hunt and fish .
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I am not and was not traumatized at all, I don't really see where you are coming from? my lack of understanding of why people would consider hunting and killing animals 'sport' is my only question. But slaughtering animals is not exactly like shooting at animals for fun.
I have no qualms about eating meat or killing what I eat.
I am not and was not traumatized at all, I don't really see where you are coming from? my lack of understanding of why people would consider hunting and killing animals 'sport' is my only question. But slaughtering animals is not exactly like shooting at animals for fun.
I have no qualms about eating meat or killing what I eat.
Is there a reason you will not answer the question of what animals you helped kill and gut on the farm ?
I gave my reasons why . But like I said , its a way of life that has been handed down from generation to generation . It started more to put food on the table and survive , but as more years go by its a sport and less and less men and women do it . Thus fewer and fewer people share the event with each other . And the understanding of why people do it is less .
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1. Its a past time I guess you could say. If you go back far enough hunting was was for putting food on the table, and it still gets passed down from generation to generation even though its not necessarily "necessary" in this day and age. Its also good bonding time to have with father/son and part of the process IMO of raising a kid to see that not all food comes from the counter at the store. And in a wierd way theres sort of a primal instinct, not crazy blood lust, but a sense of living/providing at the most very basic level just in the wild with no technology just your skill and wits for the most part. Id say hunters are some of the most ardent conservationists.
4. Eat Eat Eat, I like does because the meat is better so no racks there. Elk is my favorite, but Venison is very very good too. Better than beef IMO. But if I took a buck with a good enough rack I would mount it, probably do it myself with a kit. The hides can be tanned and turned into things like gloves or rugs.
Hunting: the what and why
