: : Yup it is pretty lame. This is coming from a hunter who lives in San Francisco where the wilderness has been destroyed and turned into shoping malls. To me a guy who payes foy everything and only goes for a
: : trophy isn't a hunter. A real hunter drives to his own place and goes out to hunt with his friends, not with people he just met. Plus a good hunter doesn't kill for a head he kills for the meat.: If you want meat, Hunter & Proud, you can go to the store. You kill animals for reasons going beyond feeding yourself, and it's that aspect that anti-hunters like myself find puzzling, and even disturbing. If you told me you lived in the deep bush and had to hunt to feed yourself, I'd have never uttered a word in opposition. The fact that you live in a city, with plentiful food, means that killing animals satisfies some deep urge within you. Since not all people have that urge or, if they do, do not act on it, you ought to contemplate while you feel you must -- or, as you put it, why you're a hunting "fanatic."
: You're far better than the sport hunters, slob hunters, and others that both you and Qx rightly deride, but still, why kill when you don't have to?
I have been over this time and time again ever since i started debating. Your right i don't have to kill for my food.I choose to. Yes it is for the meat because i feel game meat is better for you then cow or pig, but your right in saying thats not the only reason. i Think hunting is fun, and i love hunting it is something that i enjoy.It is partly the rush and the whole experience of a weekend of hunting. Being in a blind with my cousin calling in ducks for me, since i havent learned how to call yet, is something that i enjoy. I know you're going to ask then why not use a camera but i have been over that to it just isn't the same experience it doesn't produce the same results(which to you would be death and to me would be meat and also death)It is an experience which cannot beexplained through words. I'm sorry it can't be, i wish it could to explain to you but it can't.
