Hunting out of neccessity to feed your family or the poor I get...eat what you kill....what I find so hard to swallow is the 'bragging' rights that seem to go along with this. "I never saw an exit wound so big" or how good you felt...I feel fear when I hear someone say that...it is like bragging about how good it felt to kill something....I grew up with a father that hunted everything from moose and caribou to grouse and pheasant, we never went hungry nor did alot of members of our family but never once, from my father or any other person did I hear how proud they were or how good it felt. It was just something to do to help feed your family, a chore...not a passage of 'manhood' or a sport.
A lot of the hypocrisy goes right over his head. On one hand it's " humane" and "for food." But at the same time the name of the thread is "I shot the biggest buck of my life today". Which is nothing more than bragging about one's latest conquest.
Personally, I don't see the harm in him saying its for food AND that he enjoys it. Hunting is legal, it has a season (just like football, baseball etc...) it is considered by some to be a sport. There is an element of competition involved (same with fishing). Whether a hunter likes the thrill of the kill and the food is a bonus or the other way around, I don't think its fair to say it has to be one or the other. Me personally, I don't think I could ever pull the trigger on an animal like that, but its a persons choice to do so if they please. Just as those who are totally against hunting can speak out against it and say whatever they want about those who hunt.
Thats the great thing about this country. people have the choice to do things even if others disagree with that choice - that is unless you are gay and want to get married or you get pregnant and choose to have an abortion
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