How big is Hunting in your area?

[Kitty 34]

Tomorrow, here in Michigan, is the First day of Deer Hunting and it is a BIG BIG deal around our small town. For some, I think it's a bigger deal than the holidays!!

I'm not a hunter so I'm definetly in the minority around here!

 

[Pam]

Very big.

 

[ChiTownZee]

I'm not sure, since I only know one hunter, one of my bosses. Don't get me started

 

[ratsrule]

Whatever we drive over is ours to keep

 

[Buckalew]

Pretty big here too. Luckily, DH doesn't deer hunt. He did bow hunt a bit when we dated but sold the bow.
He duck hunts and fishes. Actually, he doesn't do either as much as before DD. But, he and his dog like to get up early, erly in the cold and go sit in a blind watch the sunrise and drink coffee... oh, I guess they are watching for ducks too. LOL It sounds so, so appealing to me...

 

[janette]

Not big here, other parts of Texas it is.

I grew up in Montana, hunting is a big deal there. What my parents got hunting was our meat for the year.

 

[helenabear]

It is very big around here. I know people who take of several days from work just to go to the surrounding counties for a few days just to get some good "hunting days" in.

 

[Lars624]

LOL Kitty......whenI saw the title of this thread I thought it's HUGE where I live!!!!! I didn't realize you lived here too

 

[EROS]

Not a big deal around suburban Boston as expected. I HATE hunting, but I don't HATE hunters. I'm fond of that great scene in The Deerhunter during which DeNiro has a buck in his sights but cannot pull the trigger...........he had loved hunting but could no longer bear gratuitous killing.

 

[TerriP]

Here's another affirmation that hunting season is HUGE in Mid-Michigan! In fact, I took a personal day tomorrow to spend some time with my Niece and Nephew (their school is even closed tomorrow!) and everyone at work assumed it was so I could hunt. Yeah, right! I'm many things, but "hunter" isn't one of them!!

 

[caitycaity]

actually, i don't know. i don't know anyone who hunts, and i don't knwo where they would hunt around here.

 

[fklhou]

I live in Texas. Do I need to say more. A couple of my clients were out all last week hunting with customers.

 

[Wendy]

Well, lets' just say that "Opening Weekend" you don't see many dads around the soccer games and coaches are always scrambling trying to find a dad who doesn't hunt to step in and coach. I hate hunting and my dh doesn't hunt, so he always ends up coaching an extra game or two on opening weekend.

Apparently, all the dear pack up their things and go home after opening weekend, so it's imperative that you be out there the first minute of the first hour of the first day of the season.

 

[GEM]

Let's put it this way - the local schools were actually closed down for the first two days of Deer season. They do that every year because there wouldn't be anyone there anyway. I'm not a hunter, but it's huge around here.

 

[aahmom1]

Hunting is very big here, I live in Michigan as well.

Not a big deal around suburban Boston as expected. I HATE hunting, but I don't HATE hunters. I'm fond of that great scene in The Deerhunter during which DeNiro has a buck in his sights but cannot pull the trigger...........he had loved hunting but could no longer bear gratuitous killing.

Eros, I really hate to the bearer of bad news but hunting is NOT gratuitous killing. Do you have any idea how many deer would die from starvation every year if they weren't hunted and used to feed MANY families? I suggest you get your facts straight before you make blanket statements about many many people.

 

[brerrabbit]

I live in Texas and its huge here. On November 1, the freeways out of Houston were bumper to bumper with trucks pulling trailers with four wheelers and all their gear. I was fishing Friday but managed to hunt Sunday. I have not missed an opening weekend since I was 8. The Saturday closest to the first of November is almost a holy day to Texas hunters.

As far as gratuitous killing, that is totally wrong. Texas has the largest harvest of white tail deer in the country annually and still has deer die from starvation every year. Without the harvest literally five to six million deer would die of starvation in Texas each year. I believe if you hunt, be responsible, eat what you kill and don't kill for fun. Heck, I even skinned and fried up the rattlesnake that climbed in my boat with me last Friday while I was fishing.

 

[Deb in IA]

Out in the rolling fields of America's Heartland, hunting is really, REALLY big.

We have a small farm (120 acres), and every year, people ask for permission to hunt on our land up to a YEAR in advance!!!

We've had hunters the last two weekends for pheasant season.

Bow hunting should start in about a month here.

Muzzle loading and shotgun are usually late December - early January.

Oh, and there's turkey hunting too, but I don't know when that season is.


As for us, DH and the kids go fishing in our ponds (we have 5, stocked with bass, bluegill, and catfish), but we do NOT hunt. And even the fish are strictly "catch and release" (NO cleaning stinky fish for THIS mom!!!)

 

[faith]

Big business here in the entire state of Michigan...upper and lower Michigan. The dollar amount it brings to our economy is staggering!
I do not like venison, but don't want to see the deer starve or cause so many car accidents.

 

[Serena]

I can't say for sure that I know what Eros meant, but he said it in reference to the movie. I haven't seen the movie, but it very well may have been gratuitous.

It's not big here either, except for people killing people.

I don't go hunting.

 

[browneyes]

It's too big here. My SO likes to hunt, I can't stand the thoughts of hunting.

One way my SO remembers my bday is "oh yeah, your birthday is "doe day" ".