Kill. I’ve never thanked the animal for giving its life and kissed it afterwards either. It’s an animal, just like me, who happens to have lost out in the contest for position on the food chain. I think you owe the animal as quick of a death and as little suffering as possible. I’m a hunter, not an “outdoors athlete”. If I didn’t enjoy wild game meat, I wouldn’t hunt or fish. No different than planting a garden or hunting mushrooms. It’s all about the groceries.
Kill. I’ve never thanked the animal for giving its life and kissed it afterwards either. It’s an animal, just like me, who happens to have lost out in the contest for position on the food chain. I think you owe the animal as quick of a death and as little suffering as possible. I’m a hunter, not an “outdoors athlete”. If I didn’t enjoy wild game meat, I wouldn’t hunt or fish.
You mean you wouldn't hunt solely to give the meat to the food bank?
harvest verb harvested; harvesting; harvests Definition of harvest (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb
1a: to gather in (a crop) : REAP harvesting corn b: to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control
The verb harvest indicates that I am not just killing, but also dressing the game and collecting the hide, fur, skull, antlers, and meat for use. I see people that just "kill" coyotes without harvesting them. They leave them for dead. Gut shoot a deer and have it run away and die days after you gave up looking for it. You killed. You didn't harvest it.
harvest verb harvested; harvesting; harvests Definition of harvest (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb
1a: to gather in (a crop) : REAP harvesting corn b: to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control
The verb harvest indicates that I am not just killing, but also dressing the game and collecting the hide, fur, skull, antlers, and meat for use. I see people that just "kill" coyotes without harvesting them. They leave them for dead. Gut shoot a deer and have it run away and die days after you gave up looking for it. You killed. You didn't harvest it.
harvest verb harvested; harvesting; harvests Definition of harvest (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb
1a: to gather in (a crop) : REAP harvesting corn b: to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control
The verb harvest indicates that I am not just killing, but also dressing the game and collecting the hide, fur, skull, antlers, and meat for use. I see people that just "kill" coyotes without harvesting them. They leave them for dead. Gut shoot a deer and have it run away and die days after you gave up looking for it. You killed. You didn't harvest it.
The only things you harvest are dicks at the truck stop.
When I was working and used to take my vacation for deer season, the women would almost invariably ask me if I “caught” anything. I always replied, “I don’t catch ‘em, I shoot ‘em”. I’m not a good enough hunter to catch ‘em”. Only once did I get any flack from one, a very pretty one BTW. She walked into the break room and asked me what I was eating. When I told her it was a Bambi sandwich, she got so upset she actually left the room. IIRC, she never spoke to me again.
