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- djwesty, on 04/21/2009, -49/+464Better title....why everyone should hunt....I mean if you can do it from a hot-tub with a beer right there.......does life really get much better?
- tyrulz, on 04/21/2009, -25/+351looks like the best sport ever actually
- RaisingSpirits, on 04/21/2009, -13/+263This isn't hunting, it's shooting. Hunting requires greater skill than just sitting with a gun and pulling the trigger when something comes along. I've always thought that the manner in which many people define and perform what they consider hunting gives "true hunters" a bad name and takes away from the actual skill needed to really hunt. It bothers me when people will just drive around until they see a deer out in a field and then shoot it out the window of the truck. Or when someone pays to hunt on a ranch where they are guaranteed an animal, picks out the animal they want from a herd and then simply shoots it.... Or when a group of "hunters" sees a deer running through a field and they all empty their clips trying to hit it, often times wounding but not killing the animal.... That's not hunting in my opinion. It's shooting... Yet most people will refer to that as hunting and the people doing it as hunters. It's unfortunate.
I grew up hunting... I still hunt (albeit less then I used to). I have an enormous respect for animals and nature in general. (as contradictory as many people will view that, it's true) It's not the act of shooting something that I enjoy but being out in the woods... the whole tradition behind it. The fact that it was something my father and I could do together growing up and something that still brings us together. And if I went out and didn't shoot anything, no big deal. I still enjoyed my time out in the woods. And if I did see something that I choose to shoot, I made sure I had a good, clean shot. I didn't take chances and was responsible about it. And when we did shoot something we made use of it and ate the meat.
Hunting in and of itself isn't bad or wrong. It can actually serve a lot of good in providing food and helping to control animal populations if managed properly. However, a good majority of the jackasses who consider themselves hunters, give it a bad name when really all they want is to get drunk and shoot at something.
I may very well get dugg down for this but so be it... - anotherjack, on 04/21/2009, -4/+216What I like is that he is wearing a neon orange hunting cap...just in case another hunter mistakes him for a deer and shoots at him.
- O8SERVER, on 04/21/2009, -40/+224Hey, at least it looks more fun than golfing.
- gizram84, on 05/30/2009, -29/+159title should read, "Why Hunting is the Best Sport Ever"
- DemiRonin, on 04/21/2009, -1/+111Wait...wtf?
- Samurai77, on 04/21/2009, -2/+87Your powers of reverse logic won't work on me!
- CrankMyBlueSax, on 04/21/2009, -6/+87I no longer have to wonder if I am the dumbest guy on the intartubes.
- RedAbyss, on 04/21/2009, -9/+84Anything that Teddy Roosevelt dd on a regular basis I consider extreme sports.
- imnojezus, on 04/21/2009, -8/+70It's taken.
By the way, not sure how commentary on a lazy-ass hunter is Liberal. - AgeofMastery, on 04/21/2009, -12/+73I don't think guns and beer are all that good of a combination...
- geneikillua, on 04/21/2009, -1/+59Photography.
- gumballer, on 04/21/2009, -2/+55Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food
- Plower, on 04/21/2009, -3/+54How is it possible to both "shoot a deer" and "never hit it"?
- scootermcgee84, on 04/21/2009, -0/+47The only thing I'm hunting for, Is an outfit that looks gooooood.
- ureshiidesuka, on 04/21/2009, -4/+50is that alistair tenpenny?
- loobis, on 04/21/2009, -0/+43See my vest, see my vest,
Made from real gorilla chest.
Feel this sweater, there's no better
Than authentic Irish Setter.
See this hat, 'twas my cat.
My evening wear, vampire bat. - tk0680, on 04/21/2009, -3/+44You haven't heard? You can only be right-wing or liberal, there's no middle-ground. "With us or against us", and so forth.
At least that seems to be how American politics/society works. - Rain12913, on 04/21/2009, -4/+42I honestly don't get it. Where is the satisfaction in setting up this ridiculously outmatched scenario and then winning? I would feel accomplished if I was able to stalk a deer and take it down with a bow and arrow, not if I left food out and hid in a goddamn tree fort so I could shoot it with high powered weaponry. People have hunted deer here for millenia without all of this crap, can't you do it too?
Maybe someone can explain it to me, but I'm sure I'll get dugg down for simply posing this question. - offrdbandit, on 04/21/2009, -1/+37Like giving a speech with a bullet in your chest? That is pretty extreme.
- kromix, on 04/21/2009, -36/+72Swim.
Drink.
Shoot.
Kill.
PROFIT. - SwK386, on 04/21/2009, -6/+40Hottub, Check
Beer, Check
Enuff meat to feed a family of 4 for nearly a month, check
I'm still trying to figure out the problem here.. People are always saying how hunting is so cruel etcm yet they'll sit down at ${fast_food_place} and stuff their gullet with burgers.... how do you think you get chicken, beef, and pork? The only difference between a priate hunter like myself and a commercial beef operation is levels of scale and mass efficiency - peteyb1313, on 04/21/2009, -5/+38Yeah, they're a GREAT combination
- drmangrum, on 04/21/2009, -14/+42Where's the hunting? I see a naked man point a gun at ...what?
Shooting a deer isn't all that hard. Build a blind or get a tree stand. Leave a salt lick in line-of-sight. Add a corn dispenser. Show up before sunrise. People think hunting is difficult, it isn't. It's more about patience than skill. Not exactly hard to kill an animal that doesn't even know it's being hunted. - Coffeedemon, on 04/21/2009, -1/+28Love to hear you attempt to explain that.
- josejimenez, on 04/21/2009, -11/+38Weird? More like liberal homosexual radical animal rights activist.
- nomadxx7, on 04/21/2009, -3/+29And yet any salt lick or corn dispenser/apple dispenser/ammo dispenser is illegal in season. You can't 'bait' a deer with ***** like that. I agree with the patience to get up at 4:30 am and stay in the woods until dark while it's snowing or has a wind chill but you'll have your license pulled if you have a salt lick or other type of food set up around your stand. Now on the other hand if you see an apple tree and put some other apples on the ground (though illegal) I think you'd have an easier time proving that the apples came from the tree than saying that forest fairies left the salt lick out so you could shoot Bambi.
- mnpilot, on 04/21/2009, -3/+28At least he wore the hat to stay legal....maybe blaze swimming suits?
- bluto36, on 04/21/2009, -3/+28polar bear vs seal
wolf vs rabbit
coyote vs rat
bobcat vs mouse
cougar vs 17yr old
bear vs picaanic basket
yep thems looky like um fair fight alright - AnimaStomp, on 04/21/2009, -3/+27I think every sport should require a hot tub and beer honestly...
- Rain12913, on 04/21/2009, -17/+40Yeah, life would be a bit better if I didn't have to kill animals while enjoying my beer in a hot-tub. I don't know about you, but I've never had the urge to shoot animals, maybe I'm just weird.
- moose26, on 04/21/2009, -0/+23This is the good side of hunting that is not publicized that much.
When I have spoken to some of my neighbors and they talk about hunting, they brag about how they got the best gun, watched the best training videos and have this Dodge Ram Quad Cab with a Hemi. Uh, trucks have little to do with hunting, unless you do count that a 4x4 can get you to remote places. Last I saw my bud's 83 Toyota with 33s could go pretty much about anywhere I would want to and it was an imported Quad Cab. Plus my grandfather used to hunt. He talked about the patience and enjoyment of being in nature. He described his love for it like RaisingSpirits here and how he also used what he killed.
Its nice to have a nicer image in my head of honorable hunters vs the previous Yosemity Sam firing a chaingun at a herd of deer. - donsnyc, on 04/21/2009, -2/+25So you have been in the hot tub with him how many times?
- drmangrum, on 04/21/2009, -8/+30There's a difference between being stalked by a wolf or other predator and being sniped from a quarter mile away with a bullet going mach 2.
- AnimaStomp, on 04/21/2009, -1/+23You are the cause for my headache.
- GeNe07, on 04/21/2009, -1/+23where atleast I know.... i can shoot animals out of a hot tubbbb
- vofuse, on 04/21/2009, -17/+39It's great to be an American.
- j0hnc0ry, on 04/21/2009, -4/+25All he does all day is sit in the hot tub stroking his rifle.
- audiblesilence, on 04/21/2009, -1/+20Aren't the native americans our example of a sustainable lifestyle since they lived within the means of the land? I'm pretty sure they were avid hunters. Responsible, yes...but still hunters nonetheless.
- Jacare, on 04/21/2009, -4/+22you should take pride in that the life of the animal has been a good one and that it has not experienced any of the "horrors" that are experienced by anything you find in a supermarket. if you buy your meat from a supermarket you should also feel personally responsible for life of that meat. if your not willing to kill what you eat, then you have no right to eat it.
- smack1700, on 04/21/2009, -0/+18I really like the vest!
I gathered that, sir. - j0hnc0ry, on 04/21/2009, -0/+18I think he missed a "t". Probably meant shot at deer.
- Induane, on 04/21/2009, -1/+18I have never gone hunting myself but I grew up on a 250 acre ranch with a good bit of wooded areas and my parents and grandparents would periodically let a very few people hunt on our land. They were pretty picky about who they let in as they weren't fans of people just running around drunk shotting at things either. We had cattle and lord knows we didn't want them shot (happened once when a neighbor let someone hunt on his land and he fired across the property line). The few hunters we did have were the nicest people, they would be out there all day and you'd hear 2 or 3 shots. When they came back if they scored some game they always asked if we wanted them to save any of them meat for us when they butchered it. I also remember it was very commonly a father son duo. My personal favorite were the bow hunters, those guys were really into really making it an almost spiritual experience and those people helped me keep a positive view of hunters as I grew older. I've always had a soft spot for animals and hypocritically couldn't ever kill an animal myself (but of course I enjoy a burger... go figure), but I understood that there were good aspects to what these people were doing and that it almost seemed natural in many ways. There are morons who give hunting a bad name and I despise them for it. Most hunters are deeply in tune with nature and take care to respect the environment as they move through it.
Stupid hicks with their giant trucks, 1500 dollar deer blinds, salt sucker bait, and endless amounts of ammo to fire relentlessly need to have their hunting licenses revoked, only because they annoy me and because I say so ;) - raskali, on 04/21/2009, -13/+30Governor Palin, is that you?
- ramseypawlik, on 04/21/2009, -1/+18Yeah killing a wild animal and EATING it is cruel but sending a domesticated animal to a feedlot, then to its death in a slaughter house is A-OK. RIIIIIIIIIGHT. Some disillusioned people out there!
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/21/2009, -0/+17Because it's a Simpsons parody of that song.
- MKautz, on 04/21/2009, -3/+20What statistics do you have that indicate that the majority of hunters are idiots? Idiots exist, but in my experience, are in the extreme minority, but like everything, the idiotic minority gets the most publicity.
- drmangrum, on 04/21/2009, -7/+23Chick, not dude. And 24 at that. She still has that "save the world" mindset. 3 or 4 more years and reality may take effect.
- MKautz, on 04/21/2009, -1/+16First, it's important to note that many hunters do not hunt by themselves. Often, dear hunting is done in groups where you have 1 group walk and another group take shots at whatever happens to run out of the crap your walking. Deer, although stupid, are pretty good at avoiding people. The number of shots I've taken that are within 100 yards of a deer are much fewer than those that are outside of that range. Once you actually get to take a shot, you can't just shoot it wherever you want. Shoot it in the hind quarters and you lose a lot of meat. Ideally, Headshot (Unless you keep trophies I guess.). Realistically, hit it in the upper chest. It's a tough shot to take.
I myself obtain a deer tag not solely for the sport. I pay about $45 annually for enough sausage and jerky to last for the entire year. While, I could obtain a second tag, I opt not to as I simply couldn't use that much meat. Everyone I know butchers what they shoot. It's an incredibly economical means to get a lot of meat. After the licensing, cost to butcher and all that jazz, it ends up being something like 50 cents/pound of meat, assuming you didn't shot it in the ass. -
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