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Quite frankly, you southern boys can kill anything you want...as long as I can get my mouth on some damn ribs, ya know what I mean?
Fly fishing is heaven. I wish I could retire on a ranch in Colorado with nothing but a beautiful wife, a nice stream, and a lifetime supply of fly fishing gear.
Quite frankly, you southern boys can kill anything you want...as long as I can get my mouth on some damn ribs, ya know what I mean?
For sport? No, thats just lame, go shoot some targets.
For food? Go for it.
My mom and her bf lives up in the mountains and he has killed many deer and him and his family eat them, I believe my older brother got a lot of deer steaks vacuum sealed and given to him this past christmas, and that will feed him for weeks since he's pretty badly in debt and been struggling a bit. He also caught a bunch of fish after the river nearby them was stocked and they plan on eating them.
So yes who cares if it's for food, especially if you're not that rich.
We need some pics for this thread...
I am hungry..
Yummy, yummy, yummy...I've got deer in my tummy.
Damn! I think Brutalis' Arkansas-ass just single-handedly wrested away from Mississippi the le of "We're 50th!"
I have vegetarian tendencies, and I refuse to eat beef simply because I could not bring myself to kill a cow, if that's what it came down to; but I could look a turkey, chicken or fish in the eye and kill them, if need be. It's a matter of degree of comfort to me.
Personally, I don't hunt, but if someone offers me venison from something they killed, I'm all over it! ... 'cause we are OMNIvores afterall, although, I do think humans will eventually evolve into herbivores (just not in our lifetime!) ...
"Evolve?" That would involve meat-eaters reproducing less than rice-eaters. Oh, wait. China. OK, you're right.
What's wrong with hunting exactly? Without hunting, we humans never would have developed speech. Our speech gave us a compe ive advantage over other creatures because we could communicate with one another about where the animals were very easily and plan the hunts together.
I agree it's kind of pussy to have some 300-lb lardass redneck who can't walk more than 100 feet at a time sit in a deer blind for 12 hours waiting for a deer to come up to a feeder. Some redneck tried to convince me that was sporting because it's hard to shoot straight after drinking for 12 hours straight. Whatever.
I'm more impressed with my coworker who got bored with shooting the animals because it was too easy, so started hunting them with crossbows, got bored with that because it was too easy, started hunting them with bow and arrow, got bored with that because it was too easy, started throwing knives at them, got bored with that because it was too easy, so just started photographing them and selling the pictures.
Somebody who's that good at hunting should never be ed with.
I'd have to agree with that!
Hunting for food seems perfectly acceptable. Anyone who eats meat directly or indirectly supports the killing of animals for food, whether those animals are raised for food or hunted in the wild. I've been around a lot of ranches in my life, and just because the livestock are raised to be eaten, I don't think that necessarily makes the process of butchering a calf more humane than that of hunting a deer.
I don't agree with killing only for sport.
To all who commented about my "pussy" comment:
I meant bad ass rifles equipped with flawless scopes, stuff like that. Bow and Arrow, even the new ones are acceptable to me.
But a regular run-of-the-mill rifle without anything else to help you is still okay too.
Brewski, on those days you're close enough to use a sling shot, maybe you should use some other weapon than your bad ass rifle capable of downing it from yards away.
We were talking about its aspect as sport, and I think using something that makes hunting ridiculously easy and skill-less (in other words little ing kids 14 years old can kill one their first time usign teh same equipment) is pretty pussy....make it a real sport, put in a challenge...
First off, you are NOT limited to 1 deer in Texas. White-tail limits are 4 or 5 deer per season, depending on the county. Up to 2 (or 3, in a 5 deer county) can be bucks.
It wasn't like this when I was growing up. Back then, you could set up a blind and a feeder and go the entire season without seeing a deer. Or, if you did, it was a doe and you didn't have enough land to buy a doe tag (as I recall, you were required to have 100 acres per doe tag purchased). Screwworm was the culprit. Once the screwworm was eradicated in the '80s, the white-tail population EXPLODED. I heard/read something recently that said the Texas white-tail population in the Edwards Plateau and southward was over 3 million.
Meanwhile you have idiots in Hollywood Park and Hill Country Village feeding the damn things in their backyards "because they look pretty".
I eat what I shoot. Of course! But...if you shoot a nice buck AND harvest the meat...what's wrong with having the head done up nicely? People who want to bring someone's size into that conversation has their own problems.
Oh, and I have a head on the wall, another one at the taxidermist. Shot one buck, one doe, and a feral hog this year...and there are 2 more weeks of doe season. Weapon of choice is a Remington Model 700 .243...although for the hogs I'm thinking of switching to something heavier...
My deer hunting experience...
Trophy Buck...
Deer meat ing rules.
Elk burgers are the best!
I dont where you Texans ever got proud of yourselves, but this poll pretty much kills my opinion of Texas.
Open carry but adverse to hunting?
:shakeshead
To those who think hunting is cruel, I present 3 facts.
1.) Everything alive is going to die somehow.
2.) No animal in the wild dies of “old-age”.
3.) There is no less painful way for a game species to die than a bullet.
deer....eh....i don't care for it and i wouldn't do it...but whatever. hunting for trophies? that's what i have a problem with. hunting lion, leopards, bear, mountain lions etc just to have it mounted is bull and needs to stop.
those are facts?? you're a ing moron.
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White people continue to label "sports" that nobody else does in an attempt to be good at them. Hunting never shouldn't be a sport, but since white people are good at it, they made it one.
Toss in:
Poker
Lumberjack compe ion
Ultimate Frisbee
Various Co-ed sports
X-games
etc...
It's okay as long as you're not a pussy and make it decently fair. Also, you need to make as much use of the body as possible... with the best possible use being taking it to Dzuks in Castroville and getting deer jerkey made...jsalfjlsajflksj;lfjajdflsj.
Placing a feeder in the middle of an open field and having a blind set up 50 yards from it is just horrible and whoever does that should be ashamed.
I usually hunt in Real County where the terrain is extremely hilly and there isn't a lot of flat land to speak of. Making a gut shot in those conditions means you're gonna have to crawl through thick trees and rocky hills for an hour or so tracking your kill. Gotta make it a clean and humane kill.
I'd really like to get into bow hunting, especially for turkey and hogs. I wouldn't have the patience for deer.
Allow hunting, but do not be wasteful, do not hunt more than you can use, and make it a quick death.
If those conditions are met, then I have no problem with it.
I understand why someone will say it's wrong, because an innocent animal will suffer... but on the other hand, this is how all animals survive. Some animals eat grass, others eat other animals. It's just how it is. A necessary evil, so I understand both view points, and I find the middle ground.
Like any rational thinking person, I don't turn away from my humanity. And I'll kill something if I have the intention of consuming it. If you're a good hunter, you can limit any suffering. I don't care for hunting for huntings sake.
If you're hunting for sport you're a , but if you're hunting for your food then there's nothing wrong with that, and if you disagree you're a , especially if you eat meat from the store because those cows are slaughtered in just as disgusting ways.
Well, the poll is closed but heres another vote for hunting.
Summers gets it.
I have killed literally hundreds of deer and processed and eaten every one. I have killed them with modern rifles, antique rifles, pistols, and bow and arrow. I have killed as many as 30 deer in one year on MLD ranches. I am quite proficient at aging/scoring management deer to the point that ranchers pay me to do it. 99% of the deer I have killed with a rifle in the last 10 years were shot in the brain stem and were dead before they hit the ground. I have worked as a guide and taken less skilled hunters out to kill trophy deer. I have personally killed some pretty good deer and elk but do not have a single "head" on the walls of my house...I always thought that was a little much. When I'm not being paid to hunt I hunt with a bow for fun. I like the challenge of putting the hunter on a wild deer and making a clean kill at under 25 yards. If you don't like it I really don't care.
The hypocrisy of meat eaters that are against hunting has always amazed me.
Yes..we should all be vegans and not eat meat at all. Seriously..without hunting, the human race wouldn't have survived for us to be alive today.
Yeah..cause that's just what we need. Another thread with racist remarks...Because black people don't hunt...Dude..I personally know 4 black guys, just off the top of my head who hunt. I'd like to know what you consider a sport. Sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a compe ive nature. If you think any of these, maybe besides poker, but I don't call poker a sport anyway, are not physical, compe ive, and require skill, you're out of your mind. But your first racist comment makes me believe that anyway.
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