For you deer hunters out there...

[aahmom1]

Sweetie, if they used high powered rifles, they could kill many more deer to feed their starving families ........

Now that wouldn't be very sportsman like, now would it?

 

[EROS]

Matt, I'm sure that there are hunters who gather food to feed families with little income.

However, my knowledge of hunting comes from my patients. They tend to go to hunting lodges in New Hampshire and Vermont, drink too much, smoke too much, and kill deer. They DO eat their kills, but they're not really interested in the venison. They relish the whole hunting experience, the guys' weekend, the cold and isolation of the woods, etc. ........

 

[EROS]

Originally posted by aahmom1
Now that wouldn't be very sportsman like, now would it?

PRECISELY MY POINT

Your friends in the trees who are trying to do their "Apache" thing aren't interested in maximizing their family's meat supplies for the winter. They're into the killing for the killing.......bow and arrows just make it more challenging ....

 

[raidermatt]

However, my knowledge of hunting comes from my patients. They tend to go to hunting lodges in New Hampshire and Vermont, drink too much, smoke too much, and kill deer. They DO eat their kills, but they're not really interested in the venison. They relish the whole hunting experience, the guys' weekend, the cold and isolation of the woods, etc. ........

Hey, that's not my thing either... and it sounds like the ones you are talking about take themselves and the "hunt" a little too seriously. But as long as they don't shoot anyone else and eat their kill, they aren't really hurting anyone are they? They might not be the guys you or I want to hang around with, but they probably don't want much to do with us either.

(Of course, if they carry that attitude over into the rest of their lives, that's another story...)

And for some, the idea of obtaining their family's food themselves, even if not economically necessary, appeals to them. Who are we to pee on that when we eat our Whoppers or KFC?

 

[EROS]

SEE IT....... If one can then line up a buck in one's sights, more power to you

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I could never be a hunter, and I could never work in a slaughterhouse.

I don't know Eros I have spent a lot of time in some of the Boston Hospital's

 

[pumba]

but I did......Eros......Hunting the way you have described it is for the wealthy.....some people do go to these places with a guide and the guide takes them to a deer farm and whammo......which one do you want.......most hunters including my family and friends.....go hunting at day break....we go to place that we think would be a good spot......we sit there all day.....not up in a tree.....but most of the time on the ground.....we sit and wait.....some days some one may get a deer and some days we don't......when we do get a deer.....and I am including me too......I am so excited......venison for a year is my kind of meat........Now those pictures of beautiful healthy deer is another oh yah right picture...........Maine winters are harsh.....if we have alot of snow and ice......these deer can not feed.....and they can not run from the coyotes and fox and peoples dogs.......so they do not look like the picture you posted unless they are on a game farm that feeds them and fences them in so no predators can get to them..........I am getting ready to stuff the turkey that probably had an untimely demise too......oh well........happy thanksgiving anyways.....

 

[Poohbear123]

 

[PandyPaws]

I just have to say, Aahmom, that is one scary picture you posted. That could have been me On the way down here last week I missed one by inches on I-95 in GA A very dark stretch, a darker mass suddenly in front of me, and only at the split second it turned it's head and looked at me did I catch the reflection of my headlights in it's eyes did I realize what it was. I still dont know how I managed to swerve around it. I still don't know if the semi in the next lane hit it

This past spring when I drove down here I stopped in SC overnight. The next morning when I continued on my way I saw literally dozens that had been hit overnight, it was awful, like a bloodbath all along the highway

A sad thing, the overpopulation. I love deer, I think they are beautiful creatures. I'm not a hunter, I could never do that myself. But if there are people that can....so be it. Better than having them get hit on the highways, better than them dying from starvation.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I totally agree with Pandy Paws. I live in Michigan too, and it's gotten to where I don't even WANT to drive at night, for fear of hitting a deer as there are SO MANY OF THEM!!! I am constantly looking to the left and to the right as I drive, looking as far as I can into those fields wondering if there are deer heading for the road. We see dead ones along the side of the road all the time.

EROS: My husband is a deer hunter. He is also a farmer, and all summer long we see what the herds of deer have done to our crops. They eat them every day, taking money out of our pockets. If the DNR didn't issue licenses to kill them, we would be more overrun with them than we already are. And I know of no hunter around here who would shoot a deer "just for sport." That venison will fill a hunter's freezer and feed his family. Just because YOU don't agree with hunting doesn't make it wrong.

 

[WendyZ]

Too funny! Somewho I could see that happening!! Had to show DH! Will have to show my brother-in-law when I get to my sisters!!