Good Taste, Death and Hunting Shows

[SPW1]

I know there have been threads on the appropriate after kill prayer to say over the animal. I don't say a prayer, but I've always been overcome by a sense of sadness, remorse, and pain at the taking of a life necessary in order to sustain my life. Its one of the cruel realities of hunting. I might brag afterward, and tell stories and relive the adventure, but I've never been anything but respectful and subdued while in the field and in the presence of the animal. Heck, I work in the livestock industry and I have the same reaction whenever I am around any animal whose life must be sacrificed so that we can continue with our own.

I agree with some of the others. I don't feel any remorse at the kill and I don't find it a "cruel reality". If I did I wouldn't hunt. While leaping around and acting stupid after a successful shot isn't my style I don't view a dead animal as anything I need to be "respectful" of either. It is an animal not a person after all. For most of us it isn't necessary to hunt in order to live so if I didn't enjoy hunting I would just stick to photography or something. The only time I ever felt bad about the kill is the few times I have made a less than ideal shot and the kill wasn't as clean and as quick as I would have liked. That does make feel bad because while the killing doesn't bother me I don't want the game to suffer. I try to ensure that both I and my equipment are highly capable to keep unfortunate situations to the minimum. I don't understand these guys I meet that shoot at game with a gun they have never zeroed in or shoot at ranges they have never practiced at.

 

[61chalk]

countertop...."The worse ones I've seen have been in Kansas an Iowa."

Those are Texan's that have migrated North to be on camera.

 

[eastbank]

i just don,t understand whats so great about shooting animals over bait,in the winter if you throw bait out the animals will come to eat, most of these hunts are on hunting preserves where you pay big money to hunt and kill the animals and the tv hunts are advertizments for them, the animals shot by the stars are free . you just don,t see animals that seem so tame in the wild that are hunted very much. eastbank.

 

[MCgunner]

countertop...."The worse ones I've seen have been in Kansas an Iowa."

Those are Texan's that have migrated North to be on camera.

It is rare that a Texan will migrate north, but we can't seem to get rid of all these dayum yankees down here. Right now, south Texas has doubled its population with snow birds to top it all off. The illegals swim the river and the yankees come down here in gaggles to find work and we STILL have an unemployment rate well under the national average. Hmmmm..... Just think if we could secure the Red and the Rio Grande, man, we'd be in high cotton!

 

[achildofthesky]

I have respect for critters taken for food but not really for varmints like 'yotes, woodchucks, P-dogs.

I don't feel remorse for hunting for food but I did sit with the buck I took this year and talked with it as it finally expired. Maybe pretty retarded to some but it was a memorable few minutes for myself.

 

[SPW1]

I don't feel remorse for hunting for food but I did sit with the buck I took this year and talked with it as it finally expired.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you but are you telling me you sat and talked with a mortally wounded game animal for several minutes while it died instead of giving it a humane finishing shot to the neck or something? I hope I am misunderstanding you because if not that sounds pretty sick.

 

[Art Eatman]

Arrgghhhh. Too much wandering...