Do You Hunt?

[Klayfish]

We don't have to. They come to us.


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Automobiles are wonderful hunters of deer. They do a great job of putting them right in their crosshairs and getting a direct hit.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Automobiles are wonderful hunters of deer. They do a great job of putting them right in their crosshairs and getting a direct hit.

I hit one in a VAN going 55 MPH with the lights on and the horn blowin'! Whoo, that's an elusive creature!

- Ron White

 

[rastahomie]

I wrapped my car around a deer about a month after I moved to Missouri. A whole herd of them popped out of the woods in front of me. I slammed on the brakes, but I managed to nail a doe right in the side. Mangled up her and my car something fierce.

At the time, I didn't know that, in Missouri, if you hit and kill a deer, you can call the 5-0, and they'll send a uniform out to do some paperwork and then you can take it home. I'd have called Leslie's uncle out - he'd have taken it home and dressed it.

 

[Marchand63]

No. I live about 10 miles south of Boston. I don't know a single person who hunts. I don't think it's really a thing around here.

It actually is. The Blue Hills every year culls the deer herds with a hunt. More applications than permits every time.

Hunting is one of the most reprehensible things in the world to me, so no. Never.

So I take it you are vegan?

Automobiles are wonderful hunters of deer. They do a great job of putting them right in their crosshairs and getting a direct hit.

And deer get their revenge by killing motorists too

 

[Gumbo4x4]

It actually is. The Blue Hills every year culls the deer herds with a hunt. More applications than permits every time.

It's not much of one though. I think the annual deer harvest in MA is about 8,500 compared to 250-300,000 in MO, twice that in WI, and twice THAT in TX.

 

[Marchand63]

It's not much of one though. I think the annual deer harvest in MA is about 8,500 compared to 250-300,000 in MO, twice that in WI, and twice THAT in TX.

Totally but Milton is a very urban area not in the least rural or boonies. It is actually a bordering community to Boston.

 

[Disney_traveler]

@Gumbo4x4 @Marchand63

If y'all ever want to hunt feral hogs, pleeease come to Texas. We are facing a huge problem with over population that the legislature is looking to set out poisoned bait to control. Unfortunately, they haven't looked as much into the side effects to hunters and other predators consuming the meat. They just see a quick fix.

Anyways, all you need is a Texas license (not expensive) and permission from the landowner (probably easy to attain). No season or bag limits.

Family with ranch land has friends from other states come visit because the meat is considered a delicacy in northern places!

 

[DisBabe94]

No way. I've always said that if I had to kill my own food, I'd be a vegetarian.

Awh. This makes me very sad. Although you are not personally killing your food, understand that when you eat meat and animal products you are personally responsible for killing animals. There are no two ways about it. Please consider going veggie- for the animals, for the environment, and for your health.
OK I'll get off my soap box now

 

[kimblebee]

Awh. This makes me very sad. Although you are not personally killing your food, understand that when you eat meat and animal products you are personally responsible for killing animals. There are no two ways about it. Please consider going veggie- for the animals, for the environment, and for your health.
OK I'll get off my soap box now

Carrots and lettuce are alive too. When you eat a salad, you're responsible for killing those veggies.

 

[DisBabe94]

Carrots and lettuce are alive too. When you eat a salad, you're responsible for killing those veggies.

I hope you are joking, but what do you think cows and pigs eat? We grow food to feed our food. Every person in the world could be fed with the amount of food we grow to feed animals. In that way, people that eat animals actually "consume" more plants than even vegans do.

 

[kimblebee]

I hope you are joking, but what do you think cows and pigs eat? We grow food to feed our food. Every person in the world could be fed with the amount of food we grow to feed animals. In that way, people that eat animals actually "consume" more plants than even vegans do.

I'm not getting into that arguement with you. I'll keep eating meat and you keep eating veggies and we'll both be happy.

 

[DisBabe94]

I'm not getting into that arguement with you. I'll keep eating meat and you keep eating veggies and we'll both be happy.

Ok sorry, not wanting to argue either. You seemed sympathetic to the cause so I wanted to take the opportunity to reach out and encourage you

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Awh. This makes me very sad. Although you are not personally killing your food, understand that when you eat meat and animal products you are personally responsible for killing animals. There are no two ways about it. Please consider going veggie- for the animals, for the environment, and for your health.
OK I'll get off my soap box now

Actually, your existence on earth mandates the death of numerous animals over your lifetime, including many that would call the fields where veggies are grown "home".

But yes, you are probably responsible for "fewer" deaths than those of us who are omnivorous.

 

[rastahomie]

If y'all ever want to hunt feral hogs, pleeease come to Texas. We are facing a huge problem with over population...

We have feral hogs in Missouri; those devils can grow to a thousand pounds, ravage crops, and leave naught but destruction in their wake. Leslie's uncle literally uses military-grade weaponry to hunt them (did I mention that Missouri has Devil-may-care gun laws?). A shot from anything short of a .50 BMG is just going to p**s them off. Until a few months ago, it was Open Season on feral hogs, but Jeff City put the kibosh on that, for some reason.

 

[Hikergirl]

@Gumbo4x4 @Marchand63

If y'all ever want to hunt feral hogs, pleeease come to Texas. We are facing a huge problem with over population that the legislature is looking to set out poisoned bait to c ontrol. Unfortunately, they haven't looked as much into the side effects to hunters and other predators consuming the meat. They just see a quick fix.

Anyways, all you need is a Texas license (not expensive) and permission from the landowner (probably easy to attain). No season or bag limits.

Family with ranch land has friends from other states come visit because the meat is considered a delicacy in northern places!

Wow, that seems like a bad idea if hunters typically eat those animals.

 

[DisBabe94]

Actually, your existence on earth mandates the death of numerous animals over your lifetime, including many that would call the fields where veggies are grown "home".

But yes, you are probably responsible for "fewer" deaths than those of us who are omnivorous.

Yes you are totally right that there is no way to be absolutely sure that no animals are dying because of you (general "you"). Being vegetarian or vegan is just the most direct way to cut down on that number, and by a lot I might add!
Also, see my other post about how a huge portion of the veggies grown are actually grown to feed animals. So we are growing food to feed food and in that way eating meat is actually "consuming" more plants than a vegan ever would. Think about how much corn it takes to grow one cow, or one pig, and then the fact that each pig only has two shoulders and how many of those you have eaten in your lifetime!

But I digress, and more to the point of this thread I actually find hunting to be much more humane than buying meat from the store.

 

[Marchand63]

Yes you are totally right that there is no way to be absolutely sure that no animals are dying because of you (general "you"). Being vegetarian or vegan is just the most direct way to cut down on that number, and by a lot I might add!
Also, see my other post about how a huge portion of the veggies grown are actually grown to feed animals. So we are growing food to feed food and in that way eating meat is actually "consuming" more plants than a vegan ever would. Think about how much corn it takes to grow one cow, or one pig, and then the fact that each pig only has two shoulders and how many of those you have eaten in your lifetime!

But I digress, and more to the point of this thread I actually find hunting to be much more humane than buying meat from the store.

You do know the corn grown to feed animals is not the same grown for human consumption.

Anyway I have no,problem with vegans or vegetarians, I just find them to be much more aggressive in their views.

 

[Disney_traveler]

You do know the corn grown to feed animals is not the same grown for human consumption.

Anyway I have no,problem with vegans or vegetarians, I just find them to be much more aggressive in their views.

Waaahhh now you made me want it to be closer to harvest,time! I grew up eating feed corn from my uncles' fields and not sweet corn!

 

[DisBabe94]

You do know the corn grown to feed animals is not the same grown for human consumption.

Anyway I have no,problem with vegans or vegetarians, I just find them to be much more aggressive in their views.

OH yeah, I know that corn is not the same as what we consume. However, I still find the argument to be valid in terms of the environmental impact and the actual space it takes to grow the corn, since the person I was responding to was making a point about how vegetable farms can impact animals habitats.

Sorry if I came off as aggressive, I was originally responding to one poster who seemed like they were considering vegetarianism, so I just wanted to encourage them

 

[Klayfish]

I hit one in a VAN going 55 MPH with the lights on and the horn blowin'! Whoo, that's an elusive creature!

- Ron White

I have to say I think that a lot of commercials are stupid, but there's one recently from Maaco that made me chuckle. Driver on a dark road, deer jumps out and he slams on the brakes only to stop 3" short of hitting it. Driver looks relieved. Deer looks at him and starts to kick the car (there's an alternate one where the buck leans over and scratches the hood with the antlers). Those made me LOL.

As for the vegetarian thing, each to their own. Definitely not a vegetarian. I'm eating boneless/skinless chicken as I type this...seriously. I think it's unhealthy and unnatural.