Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you think hunting is a sport?

Do the deer know they are playing?

Do they know they lost the coin toss and have elected to receive?

BOOM!!!

Dang....said the deer. I'm loosing one to nothing already

BTW....

Golf isn't, Nascar isn't, checkers, chess ect ect ect

you tried sheep hunting yet?

I thought golf was a game?

I think dragging a dead bear one mile with nothing but a 3ft long rope should be an olympic sports event. Does that count?

no its a way of life ,where i live deer hunting season is a Holiday opening weekend , kids up north in Minnesota don`t have school on Monday of opening weekend, also at weddings , at funerals ,at parties , at picnics always deer hunting comes up on rifle used and deer pictures come out.

All depends how you "hunt".

I don’t view it as a sport.
For me and my family it’s been a way of life and a way to supplement the larder.
Of all the wonderful memories, most of them have to do with hunting and usually those memories are of hunting with family members now passed or time spent hunting with my four sons.

The way I see it is passed down thru the generations in the blood kinda thing but that’s me

Yes

Depends upon how you define “sport”.

I’ve always said I have no appreciation for spectator sports. I say it with a certain emphasized derision. People understand what I mean.

A killing sport? Some of you guys get far too emotional when you shoot a deer or elk. Seen it many times. Pull the trigger and get to work. Sport or not. Sometimes it's more work than a sport.

IMO, a sport implies competition and winners and losers. Hunting doesn’t fit that mold.

Hunting is an activity. A very, very fun activity.

I hunt the same ground generations of mine have hunted that’s special to me

Or even better, go after the bear unarmed. Then it would be a sport.

Sports are silly games.
Hunting is a much more serious endeavor.
Stupid question.

Killing a bear without dogs and doing the same you’ve accomplished something 👍

But yet....here you are

You're talking a game/athletic skill event versus a true sport, like hunting or fishing, where one competes against one's self to develop their own skill at the sport, as in Sports Afield.

Only if the deer, elk and bear were in play to kill the hunter then it would become a competitive event.

Athletic games have polluted the term from the original meaning as defined by Webster.

For me, it is a hobby. I am not competing with anyone. There are no winners or losers. I’m just enjoying God’s creation.