As for someone not wanting to kill an animal or even a human, no that does not make you a wussie. Owning and shooting guns and yet being unable to kill is not necessarile hypocritical. Guns can be used to shoot targets exclusively, so what. Nor does eating game or other animals necessarily make you a hypocrite - unless maybe you are preaching against hunting as being barbaric while you sit there ripping the flesh off of another rib bone but I don't think anyone was doing that here.
I do think there is a misconception among many non-hunters as to just what makes up hunting be it for sport or for meat or for both. This misconception was expressed in the following:
All the best,
Glenn B
I do think there is a misconception among many non-hunters as to just what makes up hunting be it for sport or for meat or for both. This misconception was expressed in the following:
This sounds like there was no "hunt" to by which to be thrilled - no matter how much the "hunter" you thought you were at the time. It sounds more as if you did something you thought was wrong even before you carried out the act. The thrill you felt probably was more that you were thrilled by being a 'bad boy'. Quite frankly, killing a bird sitting on a branch "...over our pool..." was not hunting in its truest essence. That was instread, in my opinion, senseless killing or poaching. Hunting is not reckless or senseless killing whether you do it for sport or for meat or for both. You should try real hunting someday, you don't even have to kill something to enjoy it. Hunting is not about the kill, the kill simply ends the hunt. If you try it, that is try real hunting, you just might see the difference.I hated the experience. I killed it for absolutely no good reason other than it was thrilling to hunt it and shoot it.
All the best,
Glenn B