So it's hunting season. This year, I'm not going due to lack of money, lack of people to go with, and lack of a hunting license.

But are there any other hunters other there? (Yes, "Bunny Blasting" counts too!) :rolling:

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Poll Results: Any Hunters? (23 votes.)

Do you hunt? (Choose 1)
* Yes! I hunt when and where I can. - 4% (1)
* Yes, but I rarely do anymore. - 17% (4)
* No. - 48% (11)
* No! That's too cruel! - 26% (6)
* We aren't allowed to have guns where I live. - 0% (0)
* Just the results for me. (not recomended) - 4% (1)

No. I have never even seen a gun in real life and I don't know anyone who owns one, so going hunting would be a wee bit tricky for me, unless I decided to take on a stag armed with a sharpened twig or something.

I used to be a part of the "That's too cruel!" crowd, but I dropped it to have a better relationship with my father (who hunts religiously). But the whole thing seems unfair; the closest the animals can come to winning is managing not to die. Get yourself a sword and THEN we'll see who wins. :evil:

I have never hunted for game animals - deer, elk, pheasant, etc. Could never afford the license fee or the weaponry, unless you count hitting things with a car. ;) I used to fish quite a bit in my early 20s and didn't mind that except for consistantly catching turtles.

I like the hunting season, Tottenham fans are such easy prey. Unlike those jumpy African deers and stuff, they actually come charging towards you. Someone should teach them how to survive in this cruel cruel environment. :shake:

I don't like the idea of hunting a helpless animal for sport.

When I'm in South Africa I hunt what I'm allowed on my license. I use a crossbow or rifle and the game I kill (2 or 3 antelope usually) is frozen to go home or turned into biltong (similar to jerky, dry-cured meat) again for the home. The hunts are organised as part of a cull not really for sport.

Oh and always some of the meat etc is left for the animals (lion, leopard, hyena, vulture etc)

Yeah, i kinda agree with Fel here, if you go hunting for the poor extincionthreathened (that's not the right word eh?) wolves to save your sheep, don't go in by chopper, go at them with a knife! :evil:

Closest thing i've done is shooting plastic bottles with air gun. :rolleyes:

Yeah, i kinda agree with Fel here, if you go hunting for the poor extincionthreathened (that's not the right word eh?) wolves to save your sheep, don't go in by chopper, go at them with a knife! :evil: "Look at me, I'm super hunter cause I shot a rabbit with my hunting AK-47 from 1000 feet distance." :rolleyes:
There is no glory in killing an animal if you have a long distance gun. Try hunting with bow or a knife and try to kill a boar.
I really hate hunting for sport. And not many hunts because they need meat.

While I enjoy shooting stuff, that stuff better not be anything living. I'm a vegetarian, and it would be hypocritical of me to hunt animals.

Target shooting, however, is great fun.

Hunting is barbaric.

Ok, let's leave moral judgements on hunting for AoDA, if anyone cares to open a thread about it there.

I don't hunt, but, oh, just about everyone around me does. If I weren't so lazy, I just might, too... since I hhave various uncles/friends/et cetera whose guns I could use if I got a license and so on.

But quite frankly, I am too lazy. I just use puppydog eyes on them, and my freezer is stocked with game anyway. :yum:

I have nothing against hunting in general and it's a cultural thing around here, I know plenty of people who hunt, but it's just not my thing. I'm the urban kind of guy who likes to keep himself away from the bugs and other nasty stuff in the woods as long as possible. ;)

No, hunting isn't my thing. [snip]

[On the subject of pissing, you piss me off with crap like that. -Tal]

[ October 31, 2005, 02:50: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

I don't hunt but I come from a hunting family. It was theoretically for food but I think sport was enjoyed. I learned to shoot a rifle at a tender age. I have no qualms about eating what some one else has hunted.

I do think hunting with modern weapons is unfair and I don't see the sport in it. My grandfather hunted with a one shot rifle. Can't remember what caliber. I couldn't use it that I know.

I do like to fish. Trout is delicious.

By the way, Undertaker, if you hunt boar with a knife you will be needing an undertaker. :( :p

By the way, Undertaker, if you hunt boar with a knife you will be needing an undertaker. Hahaa! This reminds me so perfectly of campaign of d&d. A local lord sent us to hunt a boar with daggers and clubs. The boar actually killed one of our party injured a few before DM intervention. So let that be a warning to all of you, hunting boars with daggers is not recommended. :lol:

lol, yea...dumb pigs... :p

anyways i just wanted to comment that people who think hunting is cruel but eat beef should be banished to life in the sewers.
oh and for all those hunters out there, Good Luck

... people who think hunting is cruel but eat beef ... You must really suck at hunting if you're resorting to shooting cows. :rolleyes: And for the record, hunting isn't cruel (maybe death and nature, but that's an entirely different subject), it's just a bit unfair...in about the same way that a person stepping on a spider is unfair.

And for the record, hunting isn't cruel (maybe death and nature, but that's an entirely different subject), it's just a bit unfair...in about the same way that a person stepping on a spider is unfair.Fel, you eat spiders? :aaa: :shake:

My mother's family hunted for food in the 30s and 40s, though usually 'varmits' like squirrels and opposums. Those are the only people I know who hunted for a critter to put in the pot and eat.

Hubby has an uncle who 'catches his moose' once a year, but it's not like anybody needs the meat, bones, skin, etc. It sits in the deep freeze along with the 6 shrimp rings and dried out dinner rolls. :lol:

By the way, Undertaker, if you hunt boar with a knife you will be needing an undertakerBut I would die with honour like a true warrior :D
Or maybe I could backstab the boar :p


... people who think hunting is cruel but eat beef ... Hunting for sport is cruel. And the most cruel thing is hunting via Internet. Just use your mouse and even physicaly disabled person can kill a harmless animal. The animal has no chance. And some of us who think that way could be vegetarians. What about that? You would call such people hypocrits?

I hear a Red Dragon approaching. We tread on dangerous ground. We the hunters are about to become the hunted. Non-hunters are included in the Dragon's diet. :eek:

Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, I have found the average hunter to be as eager to stoop your wife and kids as bag a deer.

Elboy deep in intestines? :thumb:

Sounds like a great Saturday afternoon!

Let's try this again. Since some people here would rather behave like sheep, it's obviously up to me play the shepherd.

I've created a new AoDA thread on hunting (http://www.sorcerers.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/20/1422.html).

Anything that still gets posted in this thread that is off-topic (like any kind of posts containing ethical/moral/fairness/etc. judgements on hunting) will be deleted from this point on. And the person who's managed to sit on their ears through two of my warnings will get 50 posts taken off their post count for not paying attention.

If you scroll up to the first post in this thread, you will see that the purpose of it is very simple. DO YOU HUNT? YES/NO

Anything going beyond that is most likely up for discussion in the new thread that I've made.

When we opened the new sports forum it was decided right in the beginning that the more serious matters that would have been discussed in AoDA previously (doping in sports, hunting, etc.), will continue being discussed there. This just makes it easier for everyone.

And for pete's sake, if a mod suggests to open a new thread instead of keeping up at it in the original one - DO IT! Don't wait for divine intervention, because it usually comes late. If you're the first person who sees the notice and is interested in the subject, open a new thread about it as suggested. It's as easy as clicking a button.

I've never hunted and I doubt I ever would - I like just walking in the woods and looking at stuff, I don't need the thrill of the hunt. It's the same as golf - a good walk spoiled.

However, if a friend who hunts has some excess venison, pheasant, or goose, I'm first in line! :thumb: I'll even have the hunter over for dinner.

I've never hunted... I'd like to try it some time, but if I'd wanted it to be what I'd consider 'good sport', I'd probably either come home empty-handed or eaten :p . If I did make a kill, I'd want to eat it too though. Maybe I'll go hunt a sibling ^^
:borg:

Hmmm...is it just me, or do the poll results look like a hand flipping you off? :eek:

Anyway, I just got word that my old boss went bow hunting and baged himself a nice 5-point buck. Being true to his style; he, his funny old fart of a father, and two sons skinned it, gutted it, and did all the other meat preperation by themselves once they got it home.
The best part is, since I was one of his "good" employees, I get some of the meat! :banana: I'd like to learn to bow hunt, but I suck at archery. :( :rolling:

i don't think i'll ever get the chance but i'd like to. i've read several memoirs of hunters such as corbett and capstick, very entertaining stuff.

It *does* look a bit like a hand flipping you off.

I don't hunt, but the ol' Momma's hubby does, so I get to eat.