Shooting Caribou is WAAAAAY different than shooting a person.
However, KY is right that its not sporting, and Im not a sport Hunter. You cant feed a family hunting for trophys. I am but one of many fellow Hunters that make a living around here, and none are "Sports" hunters.
I dont shoot animals to look cool, show off or hang on a wall.
Bacon is the about the only meat I buy in the only store in our village. Ill buy a Turkey once a year too.
Gas is 9$ a gallon today and where we caught those Caribou, people pay 14$ a gallon, today, so whats left for food anyways?
When ever I see Caribou swimming, Ill get them if I have time , room and they are legal. We dont deliberatly hunt them this way untill the migration moves through, but now and then we cross them swimming the rivers, lakes and ocean. Nothing like fresh meat!
Its a subsistence hunt and the pile of antlers is left behind on the beach and the meats fill my belly and many others. We hunt for ourselfs and others/
Every give away 1/2 your pay check? Thats what makes us rich, giving and sharing nutritious food.
I would have to kill more animals if I had to shoot them in the chest/meats, to get the same poundage of meat as I get from an entire Bull thats brain shot...... and I prefer the quick, painless death the Bulls are subject to , rather than a chase across the Tundra as they bleed out terrified and in pain.
I get to do that stuff the rest of the year, but for a week or less, the bulls are right there to see and smell and not in rut. The second rut is detected, its over. Smell and a belly full of water and not moss,lichen,sedges is the sign, and thats that.
I prefer to be as close as possible and look the animal over and make a certain shot.
I prefer keeping them in the skin as they freeze and I thaw them one at a time over the winter, the animals hanging in my meats shed all fresh and clean.
Take the skin off and you have to deal with the meats, skin on the animals , birds and sand stay off until you use them.
Freeze up is the perfect time to hang a whole carcass and save more for later.We eat a Caribou a week , easily in our house, and it used to be almost 2 when we had all 7 kids in the house.
If you think this is fish in a barrel, we get those in a net, and I kill the animals that my foot hold traps keep animals from running away from me, because this is the way it is. There no running them off cliffs, if that makes you feel better.
Making meats at the perfect time is Hunting, perfected.
Im on TV because I have skills and talent. That makes money, but the hunting and fishing is just me doing my thing, which makes it all so easy, its almost like stealing. I used to love taking the pictures and vids, write about them and all, but now we dance between them filming and me posting here like this thread, where they didnt follow.
I get to do something I love and am good at, so the rest is just bonus, shared out among my family just like the meats from that hunt.
We cant buy Caribou in the store, either.If the money evaporated tomorrow, and some day it will, this dont cost me any thing more than before.
If your interested, heres a link to how we lived before the show came along and made us wealthy
https://forums.outdoorsdirectory.co...-life-as-a-subsistance-hunter-fisher-gather-r