anybody hunt?

Anti-crombie1 · **Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:41 pm**

thats cool. I dont hunt enough to bother with anything like that

madlilnerd · **Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:27 pm**

See... IMO hunters shouldn't be allowed modern guns. It takes away all the fun. One shot, and that grizzly is history. What should happen is this:
-Hunting expedition is organised. A group of about ten people and a guide take part.
-The guide is the only one with a modern gun. This is for emergencies, like if a bear takes the group by surprise or the hunters are in any real danger.
-the group tracks the animal. When they find it, they all have to work together and kill it with spears, bow and arrows, rocks etc.
Result: One meal for ten, good teamwork skills and a whole lot of andreneline. Also, there would be less chance of the hunted animal becoming extinct, and it would be a real sport because you would get fit through playing it. So... less overweight children... because we could teach it in schools...

Theresa · **Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:43 pm**

They've actually upped the amount of hunting licenses to be issued here because we are so overrun with deer,

LightningBoy · **Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:35 pm**

And it's going to become more and more of a problem as hunters grow fewer and further between. Deer caused something like 1.7 billion (iirc) dollars worth of damage in New York state last year alone.

Hunting is a tradition that needs to be preserved; I simply love the fact that one week of the year I spend hunting, living in a tent in the chill of November. It's the only real ritual I celebrate.

Anti-crombie1 · **Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:27 am**

some single shot rifles leave some pretty nasty exit wounds.

i'm all for it

PrankishSmart · **Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:23 am**

I'll take the M82A1. I only need one shot

webtaz99 · **Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:50 pm**

Anti-crombie1 · **Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:54 pm**

webtaz99 · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:41 am**

Yeah. But when I go to one, I don't bring anything dead with me.

Theresa · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:56 am**

It's not like any of us go out, shoot a deer, and leave it lying on the ground... We live in an area, (Gary lives next door), where you can find someone to butcher the animal for you very easily.

iconoclast · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:13 pm**

I keep asking my best friend Sean to go with me: duck hunting or something similar. But he won't. He's a socialist/medium-anarchist, and utterly despises high culture/middle class-dom/authority/the establishment/rightwing-ness; he's got it into his mind that hunting is somehow part of an elitist right wing culture.

Seven of Nine · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:37 pm**

It is.

At least in this country

LightningBoy · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:23 pm**

I know plenty of Liberal sportsmen... a lot of Democrat Union Workers especially.

Hunting in the United States is generally a male middle-class worker's activity. The male middle class (who are in either major party) in the U.S. is about 55-45 Republican over Democrat. Pretty well split.

Really, hunting is a guy's chance to get together, get back to nature (kinda), drink beer, and get away from the wife. I would continue to hunt as long as I live, even if I never shoot another animal.

Seven of Nine · **Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:56 pm**

I was talking about the UK, where hunting is much more an upperclass sport.

I understand that in the USA it's different... but being at the bottom of the barrel, economically, hunting is far too expensive