Do you hunt?

[Naked Snake]

It's hunting season with shotguns here in NY and I was wondering if anyone here hunts at all? If not, do you fish?

EDIT : Shit, forgot a "I'm a Greenpeace / tree-hugger asshole" option. So if you're that type of person, just say so!

[Remilia Scarlet]

I go trout and tiger muskie fishing about once a week during the fall and winter, less often during the spring and summer. But that's about it. Never really got into hunting.

[Bucket]

My dad's off hunting right now, actually. He brings home a buck every other year or so.

[Lizardcommando]

I've never been hunting before, but it does sound kind of interesting.

[exp(x)]

I'm a Greenpeace / tree-hugger asshole

[myk]

I kill bugs sometimes, does that count?!

[Planky]

exp(x) said:

I'm a Greenpeace / tree-hugger asshole

[TimeOfDeath]

I kill bugs only...but it's still murder, and one of these days I'll get mine and so will the rest of you!

[Erp]

Yes, deer.

[Kid Airbag]

Where's the "I'm a lifelong urbanite who just doesn't get a thrill out of killing living things" option?

[Bloodshedder]

Kid Airbag said:

Where's the "I'm a lifelong urbanite who just doesn't get a thrill out of killing living things" option?

So, you get a thrill out of killing dead things?

[Lüt]

It's typically recommended to kill things until they die from it.

[Udderdude]

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST BUGS!

[Grazza]

Lüt said:

It's typically recommended to kill things until they die from it.

PROTIP!

[Doom_Dude]

I don't hunt but theres bugs that just need to die.

[MmM]

I usually go fishing at least once a year, but I don't hunt anything else. Deer hunting is big where I live, but I don't like the taste of venison.

[Dutch Doomer]

I only kill bugs usually with my car driving at an certain speed I drove over an hedgehog once by accident I felt sorry for the poor bugger guess he is in hedgehog heaven now.

[alexz721]

Last week I shot a pterodactyl.

[BoldEnglishman]

alexz721 said:

Last week I shot a pterodactyl.

Cool, I shot a T-Rex.

[Dr. Zin]

I get a kick out of people who, whilst eating commercially raised meat, deplore the practice of hunting. Because rasing animals in confinement and then shooting them through the head with a pneumatic bolt-gun is morally superior to shooting a free range animal in a fair chase manner with a rifle or shotgun.

[deathbringer]

I get mosquitoes with cardboard and moths with toy guns or newspapers. Thought about getting a no-licence needed airgun and going after rabbits, or maybe grey squirrels. They're like the loudmouthed American tourists who act really selfishly and fuck everything up that it's legal to kill

[exp(x)]

Dr. Zin said:

I get a kick out of people who, whilst eating commercially raised meat, deplore the practice of hunting. Because rasing animals in confinement and then shooting them through the head with a pneumatic bolt-gun is morally superior to shooting a free range animal in a fair chase manner with a rifle or shotgun.

I don't deplore the concept of hunting; I deplore rednecks taking pictures of themselves posing next to a deer head and handing me the roll of film to develop. If you're going to eat the meat, fine, shoot away. Just don't get a fucking erection about it.

[GGG]

I kill things with my van.

Also, how does being a treehugger stop one from being a hunter? If an overpopulated species is threatening the ecosystem, I'm sure there are plenty of environmentalists who would support hunting, rather than simply relocating the species, which won't always benefit the environment. Just because you want to be an active participant in keeping a species in check doesn't mean you want to log trees too.

[Sharessa]

BoldEnglishman said:

Cool, I shot a T-Rex.

Just don't step on a butterfly, or we're all doomed.

[Quast]

exp(x) said:

I don't deplore the concept of hunting; I deplore rednecks taking pictures of themselves posing next to a deer head and handing me the roll of film to develop. If you're going to eat the meat, fine, shoot away. Just don't get a fucking erection about it.

I assume you have never taken a screenshot while playing a video game? People take pictures of the fish they catch and the deer they shoot for the same reasons anyone would take a picture: to preserve a memory. I mean it's just a picture ffs.

Now if you want to say maybe taxidermy is going a bit far, sure, be my guest

[kristus]

I fish occationally. But never for the sake of just fishing. While I do enjoy the serenity and the eventual struggle. I don't do it to show off my catch, I do it cause I like to eat fresh sweetwater fish.

GGG said:

If an overpopulated species is threatening the ecosystem, I'm sure there are plenty of environmentalists who would support hunting, rather than simply relocating the species, which won't always benefit the environment.

The environment did great for many millennias before humans got it into their head that they knew better and should be butt in. Would be a whole lot better if we stuck to keeping our own species in check, worrying less about the rampant elk population or whichever it may be they want to shoot at.

[exp(x)]

Quast said:

I assume you have never taken a screenshot while playing a video game? People take pictures of the fish they catch and the deer they shoot for the same reasons anyone would take a picture: to preserve a memory. I mean it's just a picture ffs.

Now if you want to say maybe taxidermy is going a bit far, sure, be my guest

But is it necessary to rip off the fucking head from the body before posing for a portrait? Besides, I don't like the idea of hunting for fun, as your memory preservation idea suggests.

[Use]

Lizardcommando said:

I've never been hunting before, but it does sound kind of interesting.

It's about as interesting as shooting an animal, which turns out isn't very interesting.

[myk]

Quast said:
I assume you have never taken a screenshot while playing a video game?

I'll let you know when I kill something over them Internets...

[Lizardcommando]

Use3D said:

It's about as interesting as shooting an animal, which turns out isn't very interesting.

Oh... Sounds like a big disappointment. :(