What would you say your opinion on hunting is?
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Necro thread that I bet I posted in.
1) all hunting.
I think those pure trophy hunters that act like its some daring task are total small dick losers, but if it helps pay for and facilitate the conservation of a species and its' natural habitat then start responsibly blasting!
I personally hunt for some ethical meat. I mean if I shoot a nice sized elk or moose I'm not going to deny it's not a little more exciting. I've just never gotten that buck fever crazy adrenaline dump or rush from it.
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1) all hunting.
I think those pure trophy hunters that act like its some daring task are total small dick losers, but if it helps pay for and facilitate the conservation of a species and its' natural habitat then start responsibly blasting!
I personally hunt for some ethical meat. I mean if I shoot a nice sized elk or moose I'm not going to deny it's not a little more exciting. I've just never gotten that buck fever crazy adrenaline dump or rush from it.
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Wow! Critical thinking you say?
While sitting there with your illusory superiority complex and your Big Mac, which contains the remnant of an intelligent living being!
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Have a brother whose one of the small dick trophy hunters who just brags nonstop about what animal he's hunting next month. Of course he has an oversized truck, loud aggressive dog, mountain man beard, and a car audio system you can hear from 4 blocks away. He makes a lot of money and isn't bad looking but of course women are repelled by him.
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Theres nothing wrong with hunting for food. Trophy hunting on the other hand is cowardly and ridiculous.
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Done within the framework of the law i am ok with it, as long as it is for eating. if you are trophy hunting, you are a loser piece of shit. if you call it a "sport" you are a loser piece of shit
personally, i can't do it because i don't get joy out of killing an innocent animal that has no idea it is involved in the "sport." i really don't get how you can see a beautiful animal and go and pull a trigger.
that said, i am not a vegan, so i get the hypocrisy. i just certainly couldn't be the executiuoner myself
personally, i can't do it because i don't get joy out of killing an innocent animal that has no idea it is involved in the "sport." i really don't get how you can see a beautiful animal and go and pull a trigger.
that said, i am not a vegan, so i get the hypocrisy. i just certainly couldn't be the executiuoner myself
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I didn't watch the video, but I can imagine it's a little over the top. If you've never gotten "buck fever" you haven't really hunted for and seen a big whitetail buck. It is absolutely near impossible to not get just a little amped up or excited when you see one and your heart definitely gets to pumping a little faster when you know you're getting shot at him.
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What's funny to me is that they think that we hunters are vastly outnumbered so they are on the right side of the discussion.
So they are convinced that without any discourse, they can make outlandishly uninformed claims with zero factual evidence.
A few 2023 hunting facts for them:
5% of US population hunt/ are hunters
10% of the US population are anti-hunting/ hunters
75% do not have a negative image of hunting/ hunters
This means that while the majority of Americans, 95% percent, do not hunt, they are not against hunting.
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Ignorance on display, you say?
Hunting – the murderous business
Hunting may have played an important role, next to plant gathering and scavenging, for human survival in prehistoric times, but the vast majority of modern hunters in developed countries stalk and kill animals for recreation. Hunting is a violent and cowardly form of outdoor entertainment that kills hundreds of millions of animals every year, many of whom are wounded and die a slow and painful death.Hunters cause injuries, pain and suffering to animals who are not adapted to defend themselves from bullets, traps and other cruel killing devices. Hunting destroys animal families and habitats, and leaves terrified and dependent baby animals behind to starve to death.
Because state wildlife agencies use hunting, trapping and fishing licenses as a source of income, today’s wildlife management actively promotes the killing of wild animals, and joined by a powerful hunting lobby even sells wildlife trophy hunts to those who enjoy killing them. For instance, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife received $45,000 from the sale of a killing tag for California Desert Bighorn Sheep, sold at the 41st Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada. Getting the trophy carcass is an unwritten guarantee.
Help Us End This Cruel 'Sport'
Hunting Causes Pain and SufferingA mere four percent of the human U.S. population hunts, compared to 22 percent - over 70 million people - who enjoy watching wildlife alive. Wild animal watchers spend over $20 billion more than hunters on their activities that respect, rather than harm animals.
Despite increasing public opposition, hunting is permitted on 60 percent of U.S. public lands, including in over 50% of wildlife refuges, many national forests and state parks; on federal land alone (more than half a billion acres), more than 200 million animals are killed every year (McCarthy).
Quick kills are rare, and many animals suffer prolonged, painful deaths when hunters severely injure but fail to kill them. Bow hunting exacerbates the problem, evidenced by dozens of scientific studies that have shown that bow hunting yields more than a 50 percent wounding and crippling rate. Some hunting groups promote shooting animals in the face or in the gut, which is a horrifically painful way to die.
Several states allow a spring bear hunt during the months when bears emerge from hibernation. These bears are not only still lethargic, which makes them easy targets for hunters, but many of the females are either pregnant or lactating. Mother bears are often shot while out and about foraging, while hiding their cubs in trees or leaving them in their dens. When mother bears are killed, their nursing cubs have little to no chance of survival as they will either starve or be killed by predators.
The stress that hunting inflicts on animals — the noise, the fear, and the constant chase — severely restricts their ability to eat adequately and store the fat and energy they need to survive the winter. Hunting also disrupts migration and hibernation, and the campfires, recreational vehicles and trash adversely affect both wildlife and the environment. For animals like wolves, who mate for life and have close-knit family units, hunting can destroy entire communities.
Hunting is Not Sport
Hunting is often called a “sport,” to disguise a cruel, needless killing spree as a socially acceptable activity. However, the concept of sport involves competition between two consenting parties, adherence to rules and fairness ensured by an intervening referee, and achieving highest scores but not death as the goal of the sporting events. In hunting, the animal is forced to “participate” in a live-or-die situation that always leads to the death of the animal, whereas the hunter leaves, their life never remotely at stake.
Hunting is Not Fair Chase
Despite hunters’ common claim of adhering to a “fair chase” code, there is no such thing. With an arsenal of rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, handguns, bows and arrows, hunters kill more than 200 million animals yearly – and likely crippling, orphaning, and harassing millions more. The annual death toll in the U.S. includes 42 million mourning doves, 30 million squirrels, 28 million quail, 25 million rabbits, 20 million pheasants, 14 million ducks, 6 million deer, and thousands of geese, bears, moose, elk, antelope, swans, cougars, turkeys, wolves, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, boars, and other woodland inhabitants. Hunters also frequently use food and electronic callers to lure unsuspecting animals in front of their weapons. The truth is, the animal, no matter how well-adapted to escaping natural predators she or he may be, has virtually no way to escape death once he or she is in the cross hairs of a scope mounted on a rifle or a crossbow.
Urgent: Stop Canada's Bloody Spring Seal Hunt
Hunting is Not ConservationWildlife management, population control and wildlife conservation are euphemisms for killing – hunting, trapping and fishing for fun. A percentage of the wild animal population is specifically mandated to be killed. Hunters want us to believe that killing animals equals population control equals conservation, when in fact hunting causes overpopulation of deer, the hunters’ preferred victim species, destroys animal families, and leads to ecological disruption as well as skewed population dynamics.
Because state wildlife agencies are partly funded by hunters and other wildlife killers, programs are in place to manipulate habitat and artificially bolster “game” populations while ignoring “non-game” species. These programs lead to overpopulation and unbalanced ecosystems by favoring buck only hunts, pen-raising pheasants and other birds as living targets for hunters, transporting wild turkeys, raccoons and other species across state lines to boost populations for hunters and trappers to kill, and by exterminating predators such as wolves and mountain lions, in order to increase prey animals like elk and deer to then justify hunting as needed for “population control.”
Hunting Contributes to Species Extinction
Hunting has contributed to the historical extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Southern Appalachian birds, the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet (the only member of the parrot family native to the eastern United States), the eastern elk, the eastern cougar, the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk.
Wild Animals are Not Crops
Wildlife managers and hunters treat wild animals like a crop, of which a percentage can be “harvested” annually – to them, wild animals are no different than a field of wheat. This selective mis-management, with its exclusive focus on numbers to be killed, ignores the science that shows that nonhumans, just like humans, have similar capabilities to experience emotions, and have families and other social associations built on multi-leveled relationships.
Natural Carnivores are the Real Ecosystem Managers
While hunters and so-called wildlife professionals pretend to have control over ecosystems and the animals they kill, natural predators such as wolves, mountain lions and bears are the real ecosystem managers, if allowed to survive naturally. For instance, the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park caused ripple effects throughout the ecosystem, with an increase in biodiversity, including a higher occurrence of beavers, several bird and plant species, and natural habitat and stream recovery.
Urgent: Stop Cruel and Unnecessary Wolf Hunts in Norway
What You Can DoJoin In Defense of Animals and support our efforts to end recreational hunting.
Before you support a wildlife or conservation group, ask about its position on hunting and trapping. Some groups, including the National Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, the National Audubon Society, the Izaak Walton League, the Wilderness Society, and the World Wildlife Fund support recreational hunting, or they do not oppose it.
If you are a student of environmental studies, conservation and natural resource management or wildlife biology, challenge the concept of hunting as the foundation for wildlife conservation and management. Become familiar with non-lethal human/wildlife conflict solutions, and educate your classmates, your professors and your community.
Attend public meetings of your state’s wildlife agency, voice your opinion against hunting in their public commenting process. Speak up, write letters and comments, and encourage others to do the same.
Join or form an anti-hunting organization and help spread the word about the injustice done against wild animals by hunters and state wildlife agencies.
Contact your state’s Governor and wildlife agency, and request equal consideration of non-hunters in employment opportunities, and equal representation of non-hunters in any decision-making process about wildlife.
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Hunting is a violent and cowardly entertainment that kills hundreds of millions of animals every year, with many wounded who die a slow and painful death.
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Watch the video. I'm sure we all get that. I'm never that jazzed though. I've shot big enough animals. 60+ inch moose. I was never going mark Coleman winning the pride grandprix after though.
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Oh I've seen plenty of that over-the-top junk. It's definitely off-putting.
