Hunting

I don't know which was worse- the rednecks that knew what they were supposed to be shooting at, but were too drunk to do so, so they'd fire randomly - or the city slickers who used to try to drive home with anything from goats to dogs strapped to the front of their car.

Only one property in our area is *not* posted and signed against hunting, but the damned idiots would end up everywhere anyway. If you want to go into the great wilds and hunt, that's your business. But hunting in a populated area such as this is dangerous and irresponsible, and THOSE are the people who have formed my opinions of the "sport".

I say unto you now as I said unto you then: British hunt supporters, stare at the dwindling number of rural constituencies held by the Tories, and think on.

The simple implication of the hunter is: superiority to a creature gives one a right to take its life.

Do hunters here disagree with that premise or accept it?

No, you should let nature take its course.

Killing, cleaning, and butchering an animal by yourself >>>>>>> buying factory-processed beef at the grocery store. Anyone that gets self-righteous about hunting and STILL eats store-bought meat is a sanctimonious asshole and a hypocrite.

...anyway...

Baiting deer to a lick or a bag of feed so you can blast them at 5am on opening day like fish in a barrel, majorly dud. Why not just raise them in a pen and stop calling it hunting?

Killing a chicken is worse! It's so hands-on. At least with shooting something, you don't have to hold it down while it struggles for its life.

True.

But, in places like Minnesota/Wisconsin, they're just going to end up getting nailed on the Interstate and left to rot. The Mid west has a MAJOR deer problem; they're more like vermin than majestic wild animals (in that they're effing EVERYWHERE).

Aren't elk hunters worried about that bovine encephalopathy-type wasting disease?

Well, presumably not the ski bums of Jackson, worrying is not in their profile. Plus CWD is down by Laramie and I don't think in the Winds or Tetons so much.

Shooting does is illegal, except in very rare cases where a state declares a limited open season on does in addition to bucks. Personally, I think that letting hunters bag does is used all too rarely. Should be about every 8 or 10 years, like clockwork.

...*sigh* I miss the life.

If you add in bank heists, I think you are fantasizing about living in the Keanu/Swayze vehicle "Point Break." That was surfing tho, I guess. Same dif.

Check out large landowners hording MY deer and elk by employing herders to move them down onto their spreads for private hunts, upon which they make the cash:

"We ran into countless frustrated hunters. Many recounted similar stories of seeing groups of five-plus gunless horseback riders pushing elk herds down to private property.

"One said he had personal experience of once belonging to a hunting club just south of the Bears Ears area that would put the ranch hands out all night long on the fence posts with lights and noisemakers to keep the elk from jumping out of the private property." Denver Post 11/16

Homer has just crashed his car into a topiary representation of a deer

Homer: D'oh!

Marge: A deer!

Lisa: A female deer!