There is more to hunting than any of you will ever understand.. don't knock it untill you've tried it!.. I do not hunt for sport. I have grown up with hunting all my life and i will tell you right now that it is a way of life a way of supporting a family.. a tradition. Also have you guys ever considered the fact that even if you don't shoot the animal that it will die some other way which may be much more painfully. And the funniest part of all of this aruging about if hunting is wrong or write you all sit down at the table and mow down on a big fat juice steak and think you have the right to judge people that hunt for away of life! And if you really think about it wild meat is much better for you!.. Moose aren't fed animal by-products and anit-biotics!.. So unless your a vegetarian shut it!

Yeah GO!!...HUNTING!!!.. Don't knock it untill you've tried it!

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Originally posted by Bushsupporter:
You are right, hunting should have to be fair. It is intolerant and unfair to shoot a dear while perched in a tree for hours from a hundred feet away. You are an idiot. Hunting a bear with a knife? I guess it might be fun, until it killed you.

lol im sorry, but that entertained me.. I dont know where I stand on this really. I mean I guess I do think that if you hunt, you should eat whatever you kill.. But im not going to say its right or wrong.

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do you even get enough physical excersise out of it for hunting to be considered a "sport"?

I would say that horseback riding while jumping over hedges, trying to aim at a small fox while galluping, riding full speed for fair distances to catch the fox is pretty exherting.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand why anyone would hunt for sport. What do you think? "Let's go kill something?" Sorry, that probably sounds a bit harsh, but I just don't understand it. Also, has anyone ever informed you wolf/buffalo hunters that those animals are in danger of extinction? Doesn't sound like a very noble sport to me. I mean, do you even get enough physical excersise out of it for hunting to be considered a "sport"?

I hunted foxs once in South Africa. It was a mess to say the least - we had to import foxes from England. After that I only hunted in England and Scotland.

I don't hunt, nor do I have the desire or will to hunt.

I'd love to go hunting, I'm becoming more and more of a gun aficionado. However, I don't think anything beats paintball in the realm of gun use- being fired back at makes it so much more exciting XD

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Fox hunting is not very big in my family. Too "southern" for us my dad has always said.

I've never hunted fox in the U.S. I didn't know many Americans did it. We always hunted fox with Englishmen.

Wolf hunting makes me sick. I think that's the orignial reason I got into activism. That's also the first thing I started to hate about the right wing. In Alaska they chase them down in airplanes until they collapse from exhuastion, then land and shoot at point blank range. Apparenty it's done so there will be more elk left for humans to kill, nevermind the fact that wolves generally target old, weak, and sick animals while humans can shoot healthy ones, or that wolves only manage to kill about 1 in 10 times. They don't cause a major dent in the population, are an endangered species, aren't a danger to humans, and are vital to the ecosystem. Killing them if pointless. And don't bring up cattle. They only hunt cattle because humans have overhunted their normal prey and intruded on their habitat (and thus hunting grounds). It's our fault.

I still say people hunting is better.

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Originally posted by Bushsupporter:
You are right, hunting should have to be fair. It is intolerant and unfair to shoot a dear while perched in a tree for hours from a hundred feet away. You are an idiot. Hunting a bear with a knife? I guess it might be fun, until it killed you.

Poachers use anything to kill animals. They are not comporable with hunters. I don't know of any hunter who uses assault rifles.

why is he an idiot?
what exactly do you like about hunting for fun? Do you have the need to feel power over something(the animal you kill)?

Like Barkid pointed out, you and the animal are not on the same level(it's not even given the chance to compete with you), so there's nothing to be proud of.

You are right, hunting should have to be fair. It is intolerant and unfair to shoot a dear while perched in a tree for hours from a hundred feet away. You are an idiot. Hunting a bear with a knife? I guess it might be fun, until it killed you.

Poachers use anything to kill animals. They are not comporable with hunters. I don't know of any hunter who uses assault rifles.

I would respect hunting if you did it on a level where the animal had a chance to be competitive. If you hunt lions and elephants with bows and spears that makes you hardcore. I also support reasonable forms of hunting. For instance I respect bow hunting, even though some of those bows are pretty hardcore these days with laser scopes and range trackers. I would also respect hunting a bear with a spear or a knife. Tracking something down and shooting it really isn't very hardcore. It takes skill to track an animal and find it, and yes it takes skill to hit it from far away with a rifle, but honestly it's not very fair on the animal is it? I especially loathe hunters and poachers that use AR-15 and other military weapons to blast animals... Like that deer was going to form any sort of resistance.

I will hunt anything, anytime, anywhere. Fox hunting is not very big in my family. Too "southern" for us my dad has always said. I would love to go whale hunting. Shooting 10 foot harpoons in that beast and dragging it back to shore would be awesome. Let me know what you find out about the wolf hunting, I would love to join you.

My family has always kept everything that we kill. And we eat it. We may not "use everything" because we don't have to, we aren't savages, but to demonize Me and people like me for "killing for sport" is absurd.

Hunting is cool but my process is more like this stalk,hide,wait,boom,chase,deer/elk steak

I love to hunt. Absolutley LOVE IT!!!!

I have recently been doing a lot of research on wolf hunting in Norway. A board on youthNOISE sparked my interest.

My favorit animal to hunt is buffalo. My Dad and I go to our uncle's private land in Montana.

One day I would like to go to whale hunting.

We do kill it, we set it free so we can chase it down. thats what I meant by "boom, fox soup"

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Originally posted by FreeMarketLover:
The words of someone who's never hunted fox(and has probably seen fox and the hound too many times). We set the fox free, our dog help us track it, then boom. Fox soup.

Sorry, FML. I thought that you killed the fox with a firearm. I know people who do. I should have sadi I loathe people who kill animals for sport. Once again, sorry.

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I loathe people who hunt animals for sport.

The words of someone who's never hunted fox(and has probably seen fox and the hound too many times). We set the fox free, our dog help us track it, then boom. Fox soup.