Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire As a hunter has your view about killing changed any?

Even I have to admit this is good stuff Travis...

I quit hunting when I was around 28 years old and every year around deer season I would think about it but alwaysthought I was to busy, Last year the bug hit me again but my back got in the way with that fixed this year I plan on squirrel, rabbit, and white tail hunting. I pretty much bought everything I needed last year so I'm all set.

Not everybody is a killer. This how the grocery store's stay in business.

Slowed down and got more selective for my own hunting.
Scouting and zeroing in on specific animals.
Some success and lots of days chasing.

I love shooting, hunting, being in the woods...if I shoot a turkey or deer, all the better...won't change any.

I looked the word Deflave up. It means lowest common denominator.

That is a commonly used definition for "the south." But in the context I was using it, I was trying to convey 'south of the Mason Dixie.'



Travis

Great Falls. Saturday. Be there or be gay.



Travis

Maybe Travis, you should reconsider your sentence structure.

Maybe you should think before you post?

when the day comes that I no longer wish to pursue game,
the end of my time on this planet ,must surely be at hand.

As I age I realize that hunting is the most human activity I engage in.

I now believe that eating what you kill is simplistic nonsense, I may want to wear what I kill, or I may want to kill something because it is a pest.

I celebrate the hunt, and I make no apology for hunting, nor do I fake an understanding of those who are ignorant of the meaning, purpose, and importance of the hunt.

Last night's dinner was a wedge of cabbage, fresh carrots and a big thick moose steak and my best hunting partner shared in the feast. My WIFE................Thank you God.

Yes, and there's a word for people who eat what others have killed--scavengers.

My view has changed over the years too. I started with a blade and vee notch, but now use crosshairs and apertures rather routinely. Also use red dots which I am fond of as they do not obscure the view hardly at all.

In the area where I live we have quite a few Karen refugees from Burma. As with everyone new to this country they are very poor. They know hunger. Everything I take is given to them and I am quite the hero during hunting season. Last year it was 2 pigs, squirrels, fish, doves and a whole bunch of ducks. It is a real sense of satisfaction to know what you kill is not wasted and your helping to fill a hungry belly.

Somehow, when I was eating my filet at Ruth Chris' this past weekend I did not EVER think of myself as a scavenger. Then again, I mostly pay to hunt, including birds with expensive bird dogs and SXSs...

So I am guessing you have not purchased meat from a butcher's shop before.

Yes, and there's a word for people who eat what others have killed--consumers!

Again, lucky we have supermarkets today. They ain't been around that long but it allows the meek to continue to procreate.