also a legitimate reason. I think they mostly mean people who literally just hunt for fun and do nothing with the actual kill.
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also a legitimate reason. I think they mostly mean people who literally just hunt for fun and do nothing with the actual kill.
I'm totally cool with pest control and not eating kills. I'm just not much of a sport killer kind of guy. As long as it serves a purpose its cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
It's not just the reloading. It's also about knowing your weapon so well that you can place accurate shots consistently with an inherently inaccurate system. If you can do it with minié balls, great. If you can do it with round balls, you are a god.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
yeah, same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
seems like hunting purely for sport is on the way out. i'm perfectly fine with that, i don't like killing things even when it's necessary.
When I started hunting I didn't even know "sport hunting" existed, I couldn't possibly imaging why anyone would go to the effort of learning to hunt just to shoot an animal. There's a difference between shooting and hunting, if you just want to shoot animals, go to the fucking range and get an animal shaped target.
Sport hunting is disgusting, trophy hunting is even more disgusting. If you're not going to make use of most of the animal then why kill it at all. If it were cheaper I'd save all the furs and pelts from the animals we kill as well, they'd make great extreme-cold weather clothing/rugs/slippers/etc. We mainly hunt because we like wild-meat and a moose made into steak can save a good $1,000 or so on buying good steaks from a store over the course of a year, or it could save a lot on hamburger if you make it into that. If you're not hunting for AT LEAST the meat then you shouldn't be hunting IMO.
I'll still go shooting varmints and pest animals every now and then. Gophers/Rabbits/Coyotes and the like, but only if it's on private land where I've been given permission and encouraged to do so by the land-owner. In fact, on the ranch we hunt at we've been instructed to kill any wolves we see by the land owner. I love wolves, and I think they're a very majestic and awesome wild hunter... The group I hunt with share that opinion and we almost have an understanding with the pack on the land we hunt on. I swear that they're so used to our vehicle now that they don't run from us, they've actually bedded down around our vehicle one time after we went for a walk-about and didn't show us any hostility when we returned. The land owner doesn't believe us, they run from him and his vehicle now since he and his ranch-hands shoot them down to prevent them eating his cattle...
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LOL @ the massive prairie dog collection.
I'm not against mounting/stuffing animals. That's not sport shooting really, you're still using most of the animal for something decently productive. That said, if you do it to sell the mounts and don't use the meat from the kill as well you're a giant dick.
If I ever get a monster Deer/Elk/Moose I'll definitely get its head mounted. Well, maybe just antlers for Elk/Moose since they're so huge and space would be a concern for me.
If I ever drop a 10x10 I will definitely have it mounted. Plus delicious deer steak.
we have an antelope mounted but dad ate the rest so its cool. he looks so peaceful too. i used to just go chill under him as a kid.
we also have a bearskin rug. he tried to eat dad and several of dad's friends. not one to waste a good opportunity, dad had him made into a rug.