My problem with anti-hunting people

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Uncle Rico

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Hey there, my name is Uncle Rico and sometimes I post the least thought out crap on this board. Now that we've all agreed on that, here it goes:

I hunt and kill animals but I only hunt and kill animals that I can eat. I sometimes hear people (usually wife's friends or wife's side of the family) sit there and say crap like, "you train a deer to come to a feeder and shoot it, that's really sporty" or other forms of ridiculous crap. My problem with 99% of these jerkoffs is that they have absoultely no problem throwing down 12 oz of beef at a nice steakhouse or consuming burgers, chicken and fish till they barf.

Do these dumbasses not understand where the food comes from? Do they think people follow around chickens and cattle until they are old and die and THEN process the meat and ship it off to the grocery store? How are they any worse in the process than I am? We both eat meat that someone killed to put on our plates but I'm the shitbag because I pull the trigger and they don't (no I don't shoot cattle)?

These people who act like they aren't a part of the problem because they don't put the slug in the cow's head are total douchebags. Not douchebags like the popped collar douchebags but a different kind.

If you are a true vegetarian that doesn't eat or buy ANYTHING that comes from a dead animal I respect your beef (pun intended) with my decision to hunt.

Finally, I personally don't care for killing of bears, lions, tigers or anything that you can mount but not eat. If people want to that's cool but I just personally don't want to kill for the sake of killing. I hate the killing part but I like the hunting experience and sure as **** like how it tastes.

This is the worst post ever.
 
I'm anti-hunting because I don't take pleasure in killing things.

Actually I should say that I just don't like hunting. An anti-hunter probably gives hunters **** and I don't tend to do that.

My post is worse than yours.
 
I'm not an active hunter, but have hunted and killed. So to be clear, I don't have a problem with it on its face.

That said, I personally believe that blind hunting is less a sport than bowling is. The word "hunt" implies that you are engaging in some sort of action, and blind hunting is anything but active. Personally watching a bunch of guys get geeked up to go put on camo, sit in a blind next to a feeder using a scoped rifle to shoot an animal for meat they could have bought at a store, is some how marginally more anti-social than a bunch of 14 year olds sitting around playing with a playstation all day. To call that "hunting" seems like an insult to the thousands of years of REAL hunters our species have produced. You are the star trek nerds of the hill country.

Despite finding it a laughable spectical, I have no moral issues with it. By all means, shoot away.
 
Night and day flavor etc. difference between most butcher shop venison vs. truly wild venison. Same with ducks (actually, even MORE of a difference there -- a domestic duck and wild duck are nothing alike, meat-wise).

To me, you are either pro or anti killing animals (taking out the question of whether the killing is humane or not -- that's a separate question). So, assuming humane killing, you either approve of killing animals or you do not.

I actually respect the PETA vegetarian types who don't use any animal products -- they practice what they preach. I may disagree with them, but I respect their consistency and reasoning.

And if you think that sitting in a blind isn't sporting, you have something of a point. Of course, it's 1,000 X more sporting than manning the bolt gun at the cattle processing plant.

Frankly, when I am just going to go sit in a blind and take a doe at the end of a season, I really don't think of that as hunting so much as it is harvesting/going on a meat run. But I have no problem with it -- I just look at it for what it is.

Now, if you've gone duck hunting with me, you know that is a different situation entirely. The ducks do quite alright against me. But they're damned tasty.

Free-range? Check.
Organic? Yup.
Lean? Yup.
Fresh? Doesn't get much fresher than having been alive that day.
DEEliciious? Yup.

Everything folks would want in a high-end meat, and more. My kids have been eating it since they could chew, and love it.

Either you approve of critters dying for your consumption, or you don't. Eating meat/wearing leather etc., but being anti-hunting, is logically untenable.
 
well said brisket. i agree with everything you said. i wish to have the opportunity to do more duck hunting someday because it is fun and those ******** best me all the time. oh well, riding around town with a duck call hanging from my rearview is fun enough.
 
I love venison but I absolutely will not buy it from a store. The wild animal farms lead to sickness in wild animal populations. I am fine with shooting a doe in the head to get some sausage, but I will not support an industry that contributes to the deaths of untold numbers of deer, elk, and bison.

Since I got my Aix sponsa mount, I no will not longer shoot wood ducks.
 
i want to kill a moose so i can mount that thing on my wall.
 
Hunting and fishing are two sports that I have done often enough to know that it bores the everliving piss out of me to the point that I'm not willing to do it unless its necessary for survival.

However, I am a fan of the meat that comes out of hunting and fishing so I'm glad to have friends that hunt and bring back too much meat.
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What most people do is not hunting.

It is killing.

If you want to "hunt", then strip down naked, put a knife between your teeth, and track the animal through the forest. When the animal is near enough, jump on it's back and slit its throat.

I could respect that.

But suiting up in camo, putting deer piss all over yourself, and sitting next to a feeder/salt lick/whatever, is not sport, imo.

I do respect the people who eat what they kill more than people who don't, but that doesn't make it "hunting".

I am not a vegetarian any more, but I still have little or no respect for most people who consider themselves "hunters".

For most of them, it's just an excuse to get away from their wives for a weekend/week/whatever so they can drink what they want, eat what they want, and piss where they want to.

The killing of an animal is just gravy.
 
Let hunters hunt and fishermen fish. As long as they have the dignity to pursue their game with the knowledge and respect due their quarry. I have hunted and fished all of my life. After hunting white tails in the hill country and south Texas, and mule deer on foot in west Texas, which was a great hunting challenge, I now take photos. I could kill all the white tail that I could ever eat digging up my flower beds off Balcones in Austin. I still fish mucho, but am now into catch and release, except for what we can eat. The biggest problem I see now is that it has all gone to big money, high fences and this has eliminated all of us that grew up hunting at " the deer lease". That was where it was at...
 
I am a vegetarian that doesn't like to purchase any dead animal products. Hunting and fishing have always had zero appeal to me, personally. However, I think that as long as you eat what you shoot, hunting is a-ok. Especially if you are hunting something that is overpopulated, like deer. Plus, you can make sure that the animal is healthy, and you know your meat is organic and antibiotic free. Sounds better than buying steaks at the grocery store. Carry on, hunters (just try to make it more sporting than the blinds with the feeders).
 
I have no desire to sit in a blind, paint myself green, pour corn on the ground, and then shoot an animal with a high powered scoped weapon. Not my deal. I don't care if you do it. I just don't want to.

According to you, Rico, that makes me a dumbass. You can kiss my dumbass you friggin jerk. Go sit in your box or your blind and fire away.
 
It should also be pointed out that most anti-hunters are not the manliest of men & are probably anti changing your own oil & anti driving a nail too.
 
Children, please...I enjoy hunting all the species of birds in Texas, with my binoculars and spotting scope. But I support responsible hunting.
People need to realize the fees hunters and fishermen pay for permits, advocacy groups, taxes, and stamps provide income for private property owners who might otherwise sell the family ranch for development, and habitat conservation through many organizations like Ducks Unlimited.
Hunters, fishermen, hikers, birdwatchers, mountain bikers, and all others who enjoy the outdoors should realize they are natural allies and should support each other whenever possible, becasue all want access to and desire preservation of the great natural spaces of Texas, as well as U.S. and worldwide parks and preserves.
Hunters shouldn't expect me to hunt, not my thing, but I don't expect them to give up their passion for their sport either, not if the species is hunted responsibly, and within set limits for keeping the population either in check, or viable for reproduction purposes.
 
I'm opposed to hunting because its not a fair fight. Let's see all these manly hunters go up against deer with RPG's strapped to their backs....or what about fishing salmon with freakin' laser beams strapped to their heads....?

You guys disgust me.
 
I don't think I will ever enjoy killing animals, or understand why anyone would enjoy it.

But go ahead and do whatever you need to do, Ted Nugent.
 
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