I enjoy hunting and think it's a great way to get high quality meat. It's also a great way to experience primal instinct in its greatest form. I was just wondering if anyone else on the forum takes up hunting. What are people's thoughts on hunting? Some see it as barbaric or perhaps "redneck". Others see it as enlightening and an act to take pride in. Just curious.
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I am a hunter I didn't grow up with it. Being from the city with parents that didn't even have drivers licenses. I started getting interested in it when I was still a vegan as a ethical way to eat meat. This led me to things like traditional bowery and primitive skills. Though when I eventually did start hunting I used a rifle. Now I hunt both archery and rifle seasons and use my own bows made from a tree I cut and find it really fulfilling. If you want to get weird looks from hunters. Walk out of the woods with no shoes at all, no camo at all, and a little 48" wood bow that looks like the two on the left and you will get some comments too. Most of the time I am hunting places to remote for some of the less desirable hunter to venture. As far a barbaric I think that nonsense. Even as a vegan I thought there were two ways to eat meat ethically one hunting the other scavenged roadkill. I was a tree sitter on and off for a few years and we hunted/fished and ate roadkill out there. Even with the hardcore environmentalist/animal rights movement supporting us. In-fact I would say hunting is one of the most environmentally sustainable sources of food there is. |
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I'm what Tovar Cerulli calls an Adult Onset Hunter; moved out to the country six years ago, got a gun, and went nuts. Love it. And I have zero qualms about the ethics of hunting and don't care what yappy little human chihuahuas think about it either. |
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Unabashedly not redneck that hunts every chance he can get here. My freezer has at least half a wild pig in it... time to go hunting again! Proof against the "redneck" comment - I wore VFF's to my hunter safety course, that earned me some funny commentary. It could have been worse, I've commissioned a "Mossy Oak" kilt... when other hunters see me in that... it will really raise some hackles. |
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I was raised on hunting, and subsequently the meat that came home. It kept our family fed through lean times, and I feel gave us our good health in later years. It gave me a deep respect and adoration for the natural world, and instilled values of conservation. Without hunting and fishing I wouldn't be here today. I still fish when I can, and am trying to get to a point where I can start hunting again. My schedule is tough, and I now have friends to hunt with. |
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I think hunting is great (though I must admit to a deep dislike of hunting predators or 'trophy' hunting, where the animal is not used for food). I've been wanting to take it up but seeing as how I've never fired a gun and grew up in a city I'd have lots to learn. |
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I grew up with hunting. I never really got into it myself, but I hardly think it's barbaric. It is just the natural order of things. And just like everything else, there are those who are serious and hunt honorably, and those who… don't. |
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