Thread: Interesting thoughts on hunting

I enjoyed this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMASU-JKNg

For years commercial meat hunting and culling my attitude was to respect but take the animal, bird or fish as required. But now, I feel somewhat like this chap. I watch the game and actually regret the final act of taking theige of a fellow creature which is just living its life and minding its own business. I only hunt for food now and have come to regard the wild environments as my true spirtual home and it keeps worthwhile values well apart from the madding crowd. I love watching all the different greens yellows browns and hues of the unspoilt places and all the life it supports. Watching a beetle or a kaka or deer, it makes no difference and always a pleasure seeing them go about their business.

Originally Posted by Woody

For years commercial meat hunting and culling my attitude was to respect but take the animal, bird or fish as required. But now, I feel somewhat like this chap. I watch the game and actually regret the final act of taking theige of a fellow creature which is just living its life and minding its own business. I only hunt for food now and have come to regard the wild environments as my true spirtual home and it keeps worthwhile values well apart from the madding crowd. I love watching all the different greens yellows browns and hues of the unspoilt places and all the life it supports. Watching a beetle or a kaka or deer, it makes no difference and always a pleasure seeing them go about their business.

Great Post Woody - sums it all up for me also. Only kill what I can eat. Just watch the animals the rest of the time and enjoy being outdoors.

Does anyone recognise a quote along the lines of "The game is not the only reason I come to the wilderness, but without the game I would not come."
I read this some years ago and have never been able to locate it.

Originally Posted by on2it

Does anyone recognise a quote along the lines of "The game is not the only reason I come to the wilderness, but without the game I would not come."
I read this some years ago and have never been able to locate it.

I haven't heard that before. I tried to search its source but no luck.

I like Aldo Leopold:

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”

Originally Posted by Tahr

I haven't heard that before. I tried to search its source but no luck.

Thanks Tahr, I've searched and searched but no luck. I'm sure it's an American author because of the vocab so perhaps I read it in a PDF that's not been indexed.
Thanks again

Originally Posted by on2it

Does anyone recognise a quote along the lines of "The game is not the only reason I come to the wilderness, but without the game I would not come."
I read this some years ago and have never been able to locate it.

I like that

He says he's hunting for meat but shoots a buck instead of the Doe(maybe they have tags for bucks only there?)and he also says this animal gave its life for us,Im pretty sure it didn't give its life as opposed to it being taken by him.
Enjoyed the video but his out take on it sounded fake and woke.

Tag system there, can only shoot what you draw. Gave its life, take its life meh same thing.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Tag system there, can only shoot what you draw. Gave its life, take its life meh same thing.

Agree. I have reflected on ANZAC day about those who "gave their lives", "sacrificed themselves" for us. More accurate to say they paid the ultimate price, or just, they died. Sane people (other than Jihadis) go to war with some hope of returning alive.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Agree. I have reflected on ANZAC day about those who "gave their lives", "sacrificed themselves" for us. More accurate to say they paid the ultimate price, or just, they died. Sane people (other than Jihadis) go to war with some hope of returning alive.

Yes.

that can be a strange one ... I will happily go shoot a deer or goat or whatever for food or do a bit of pest culling (possum etc) but I value life enough that I will catch any bugs in the house and let them go outside (spiders, mantis, moths etc) because I feel bad squishing them .

except flies or roaches ..... hate those little buggers ...

Originally Posted by Ftx325

that can be a strange one ... I will happily go shoot a deer or goat or whatever for food or do a bit of pest culling (possum etc) but I value life enough that I will catch any bugs in the house and let them go outside (spiders, mantis, moths etc) because I feel bad squishing them .

except flies or roaches ..... hate those little buggers ...

I thought I was the only weird one who did that!!

Originally Posted by Ftx325

that can be a strange one ... I will happily go shoot a deer or goat or whatever for food or do a bit of pest culling (possum etc) but I value life enough that I will catch any bugs in the house and let them go outside (spiders, mantis, moths etc) because I feel bad squishing them .

except flies or roaches ..... hate those little buggers ...

Same here ill never kill a spider(except white tail)or what I regard as a useful insect but will take a deers life no problems.I never thank the deer for "giving me its life".Its clear it didn't want to die for me.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Sane people (other than Jihadis) go to war with some hope of returning alive.

Of course Jihadis regard themselves as perfectly sane (given the crap alternatives many of them have) - who wouldn't want admission to jannah (paradise) rather than a life of misery?