Last week I was at trade-show for a Canadian Co-op group and had to spend a significant amount of time near the Leatherman Booth.
One woman after looking over their knife selection started asking her husband to take her out hunting. She ended her plea by shrieking, "I just wanna kill something!"
How about a "huntingmoon"? Got married on a Saturday afternoon and by the next morning we were hunting antelope in Wyoming. Then it was me, my new husband and 6 of his friends in elk camp for a week. He took pity on me finally and we ended our "huntingmoon" at a dude ranch in the Absaroka Mountains outside of Dubois.
Been hunting a long time? Guess it started when I was 8 or so. Mom & Dad would take all 5 of us kids and the dog pheasant hunting in corn fields. We kids didn't have guns as our job (along with the dog) was to flush the birds, drop to the ground while our parents shot at them and then retrieve the dead ones. Using your kids as bird dogs is probably considered child endangerment now but we thought it was fun. Everything but plucking feathers..
@SSteve I've never hunted and I've never been interested, I'd say I was even negative about it (I still think hunting for pure sport is pretty stupid) but after getting really into cooking and food I feel like having the experience of killing the animal I cook is an important thing I should do.
@JonT I love to cook too, but I don't feel that need. Or the need to distill whiskey. Or build a house. Or assemble a car. If it gets to the point of having to kill the animal I cook, I'll be a vegetarian. But I'm a shitty gardener so I guess that means I die of starvation.
Anyone who has ever seen herds of starving deer during the winter can understand the need for proper management. Went on an airborne food drop one winter in Michigan (coverage for the TV station I worked at) and was shocked at the size of the herds.
@Mehrocco_Mole Lyme disease is another result of urbanization and criminalizing hunting. It's no accident that Lyme started in CT and huge on Long Island.
Nope. I love shooting clay and targets (and people with paint), but living things I just can't if I don't absolutely have to do so. Long sad boring story why, but I cannot. I am super happy to help clean and eat the meaty fruits of others' hunting labours, though. Mmmm, venison anything! Omnomnom, all gamefowl! Hnnng, fishy grillings! Bring me, gimme, feed me!!
You know, if I am starving, I would hunt/eat anything. Not people of course, I draw the line at people. But if I am starving, critter you better run, and fast.
I do not, mostly because the type of meat I enjoy is cheaper to buy from a butcher or grocery store. Just not fan of venison or pheasant. Plus, not even sure it's legal to hunt cows. Guessing it wouldn't be much of a challenge if it was legal anyways.
I'd like to go hunting, but I don't care for the meat and would have no desire to deal with (field dress, drag home, take to butcher) the animal after I've killed it. Same goes for fishing, but at least catch and release is a little more convenient for fish. I guess I could hunt deer with tranquilizers...
I've been bowhunting a few times. Never got a deer, but I'm pretty confident that with a smidge less self-control I could have gotten the neighbors' dog who came out and scared them off.
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I would love to, but good equipment is pricey
Found Red October once. It was enough.
Last week I was at trade-show for a Canadian Co-op group and had to spend a significant amount of time near the Leatherman Booth.
One woman after looking over their knife selection started asking her husband to take her out hunting. She ended her plea by shrieking, "I just wanna kill something!"
Still having nightmares.
I haven't been hunting, but i go fishing everyday i can. I spend more on fishing stuff than I liked to admit.
@sprockett01 sweet bass.
Meh. I'd spend more money on hunting supplies than I would on just meat at the grocery.
@PocketBrain Maybe so but its the most honest way to earn your meat.
@duodec No, I'm pretty sure honestly paying my honestly earned money to an honest grocer is the way to go.
How about a "huntingmoon"? Got married on a Saturday afternoon and by the next morning we were hunting antelope in Wyoming. Then it was me, my new husband and 6 of his friends in elk camp for a week. He took pity on me finally and we ended our "huntingmoon" at a dude ranch in the Absaroka Mountains outside of Dubois.
@carwinew "and 6 of his friends" sounds more like the guest list for a bachelor party than a honeymoon
I did try hunting and fishing a few times. Both require quiet patience... qualities I do not posses an abundance of.
@Thumperchick how's your loud patience?
@JonT Pretty abundant. Access to patience requires loud commentary and probably cursing.
Been hunting a long time? Guess it started when I was 8 or so. Mom & Dad would take all 5 of us kids and the dog pheasant hunting in corn fields. We kids didn't have guns as our job (along with the dog) was to flush the birds, drop to the ground while our parents shot at them and then retrieve the dead ones. Using your kids as bird dogs is probably considered child endangerment now but we thought it was fun. Everything but plucking feathers..
I don't even fish. But I'll happily eat meat that someone else kills for me.
@SSteve I've never hunted and I've never been interested, I'd say I was even negative about it (I still think hunting for pure sport is pretty stupid) but after getting really into cooking and food I feel like having the experience of killing the animal I cook is an important thing I should do.
@JonT I love to cook too, but I don't feel that need. Or the need to distill whiskey. Or build a house. Or assemble a car. If it gets to the point of having to kill the animal I cook, I'll be a vegetarian. But I'm a shitty gardener so I guess that means I die of starvation.
Anyone who has ever seen herds of starving deer during the winter can understand the need for proper management. Went on an airborne food drop one winter in Michigan (coverage for the TV station I worked at) and was shocked at the size of the herds.
@Mehrocco_Mole Lyme disease is another result of urbanization and criminalizing hunting. It's no accident that Lyme started in CT and huge on Long Island.
@matthew Up next on The Possum Head Chronicles!
Nope. I love shooting clay and targets (and people with paint), but living things I just can't if I don't absolutely have to do so. Long sad boring story why, but I cannot. I am super happy to help clean and eat the meaty fruits of others' hunting labours, though. Mmmm, venison anything! Omnomnom, all gamefowl! Hnnng, fishy grillings! Bring me, gimme, feed me!!
@goldenthorn What've you got against paint salesmen?
@brhfl C'mon, ERRYBODY hates them paint slangers
You know, if I am starving, I would hunt/eat anything. Not people of course, I draw the line at people. But if I am starving, critter you better run, and fast.
@mick I think history shows that most people will eat ANYTHING if they're hungry enough.
I am part of a growing minority of nonhunters in my town.
While looking at trophy heads hanging on a wall the question came up: "Do you hunt?" "No, I shop, and I don't have to hang leftovers on my walls"
Of course I hunt.. I'm a girl scout.. I scout for girls all day.. (what's you're sister's name?).
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I like it.
I do not, mostly because the type of meat I enjoy is cheaper to buy from a butcher or grocery store. Just not fan of venison or pheasant.
Plus, not even sure it's legal to hunt cows. Guessing it wouldn't be much of a challenge if it was legal anyways.
I'd like to go hunting, but I don't care for the meat and would have no desire to deal with (field dress, drag home, take to butcher) the animal after I've killed it.
Same goes for fishing, but at least catch and release is a little more convenient for fish. I guess I could hunt deer with tranquilizers...
Does hunting for lost pacifiers before twin babies go to bed count?
If so, then yes. I hunt more than PETA could protest.
I've been bowhunting a few times. Never got a deer, but I'm pretty confident that with a smidge less self-control I could have gotten the neighbors' dog who came out and scared them off.