Can Someone Explain Hunting to Me?

[theweatherman]

A good answer would be because you can. Some people find it enjoyable and its not really a terrible thing so ill allow it.

I dont understand masturbating while standing on my head, but if someone does then more power to them.

FWIW ive never killed anything so i dont really get it either.

[Dan.]

I grew up in Wisconsin and hunted as a young man, as all WI youths do. My whole family still hunts, and I never then, nor now, see the sport in killing animals with a gun. At least with archery there's some technique involved. But gun hunting is a joke.

[BCPVP]

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I grew up in Wisconsin and hunted as a young man, as all WI youths do.

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At least with archery there's some technique involved. But gun hunting is a joke.

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Depends how you do it, I guess. We have to use scents and calls to attract em and then you still have to account for some things (wind, shrubs that could deflect the shot, etc). Some of our rifles don't have scopes.

Last time we got deer while hunting (3 years ago I believe), my grandpa took two deer in one spot, one of them on the run after the first one went down. Pretty impressive for a guy who's in his 70's using a .30-06 bolt action with no scope.

Re: Andy's OP, I don't know any hunters who don't either eat what they shoot themselves or donate it to charities. I would probably look down on a hunter that just killed animals for sport and then did nothing with the carcass, as would, I think, most hunters.

[Zeno]

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Re: Andy's OP, I don't know any hunters who don't either eat what they shoot themselves or donate it to charities. I would probably look down on a hunter that just killed animals for sport and then did nothing with the carcass, as would, I think, most hunters.

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This is a legitimate and good point that most hunters do not hunt just for the Kill or the Sport. In fact, this is rather rare in my opinion (except perhaps in some instances of 'Big Game Hunting') but I have no statistics to back up this assertion.

-Zeno

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Re: Andy's OP, I don't know any hunters who don't either eat what they shoot themselves or donate it to charities. I would probably look down on a hunter that just killed animals for sport and then did nothing with the carcass, as would, I think, most hunters.

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This is a legitimate and good point that most hunters do not hunt just for the Kill or the Sport. In fact, this is rather rare in my opinion (except perhaps in some instances of 'Big Game Hunting') but I have no statistics to back up this assertion.

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I don't know anyone who doesn't take the meat from game animals. You can get the trophy and still eat the meat. The common shoulder mount you see, which is the neck to the antlers, doesn't waste much of the meat. The idea of killing game and letting it lay after taking a trophy mainly comes from foreign poachers selling ivory or tiger penis or some such.

There are several reasons why hunters go after trophy bucks. They are rare in the same way a 34D-24-36 female human is rare, they are the best genetic specimens of the breed. A true trophy buck is older, 4-5 years old. They have proven their cunning by surviving mother nature and .30-06 for several years. They are much more careful than the yearling bucks and it takes a lot of preparation in the off season scouting to have a decent chance at a trophy buck.

There are also types of hunting where you don't eat the meat. I guess it would be more like pest control. When you catch a mouse in a mousetrap, or step on a spider, do you eat the meat?

Many people consider shooting groundhogs, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, feral cats, prairie dogs, etc just like catching a mouse in a trap. They are overpopulated nuisance animals and if they come on your property you get rid of them. Its probably more like pest control than hunting, although people do travel and pay $$$ for prairie dog or coyote hunting. There are so many coyotes in the forest preserves here, the foxes are pushed out, I had foxes living in my backyard all last fall. (No, I did not shoot them). Also, on the public land where I hunt they are practically begging for people to hunt coyote in the off season.

Ranchers will sometimes pay to have you shoot coyotes on their land, and you can also get some money for decent pelts. Another thing that gets a bad rap is trapping and most trappers use traps that you can release the animal unharmed. Also the animals don't really chew their paws off, they sometimes even go to sleep. You don't need sharp toothed steel jaws to hold a fox or raccoon.

[Skoob]

Didn't read all responses, sorry if this was covered already.

OP - Have you ever gone fishing? Did you enjoy it?

Fishing = Hunting

[Brainwalter]

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Didn't read all responses, sorry if this was covered already.

OP - Have you ever gone fishing? Did you enjoy it?

Fishing = Hunting

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Yep, and catch+release = hunting for sport, it's just that you can't catch or release with a rifle.

[Myrtle]

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Didn't read all responses, sorry if this was covered already.

OP - Have you ever gone fishing? Did you enjoy it?

Fishing = Hunting

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Yep, and catch+release = hunting for sport, it's just that you can't catch or release with a rifle.

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.....you can.....with a camera.

[Dan.]

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Didn't read all responses, sorry if this was covered already.

OP - Have you ever gone fishing? Did you enjoy it?

Fishing = Hunting

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"You know, there's a fishing show on TV. They catch the fish, but they let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, but they do want to make it late for something. 'Where were you?' 'I got caught!' 'Bull [censored]! Let me see the inside of your lip!'"

[ShakeZula06]

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Didn't read all responses, sorry if this was covered already.

OP - Have you ever gone fishing? Did you enjoy it?

Fishing = Hunting

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"You know, there's a fishing show on TV. They catch the fish, but they let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, but they do want to make it late for something. 'Where were you?' 'I got caught!' 'Bull [censored]! Let me see the inside of your lip!'"



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