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IMO, it's an opportunity for real men to get out of the house and away from wives-girlfriends, and to show them how much of a macho man they can be with their guns and arrows.
I do it for two reasons, I like the way they taste with mashed potatoes and gravy.
and I like the sound of the bullet hitting them in the head and splattering their brains all over the trees...
I have no idea. The question is why do they enjoy it? I understand some may do it for necessity. I am talking about the people who do it because they enjoy it. What is there to enjoy?
Why do you enjoy activities that you take part in? Because you do. They are enjoyable to you based on your preferences. No big mystery here. People enjoy doing what they enjoy doing. They don't need to explain their choices to anyone.
I'd like to ask why people like to build homes in rural areas and then complain when deer eat their shrubs and garden plants.
I'd also like to cut the head off any deer I hit with my car and throw it through a new houses window. I've seen herds of deer running through Valley Forge, no wonder they stage mass shootings of them. Deer get hit by cars because they're looking to get to food or water and have to navigate through yards and across roads many times.
I used to hunt. I may again someday. The meat is good although its not free like some think. You'll probably have to pay to have it processed and theres the licenses, cost of the rifle, ammunition, equipment, etc.
Hunters are the least of deers problems. Its loss of habitat from land development.
I don't get it. I know people who got up early this morning to go and sit in a deer stand in the cold waiting for a deer to come close enough for them to shoot. Why?
Mankind is an omnivorous, predator species. I imagine there's a base thrill that comes with killing a food animal.
I can't speak for people who sit in a deer stand. I stalk. I do crouch in bushes and brush a lot, though.
For what it is worth, I take no pleasure in the actual killing of the animal, but being in the outdoors practicing the most human pasttime of providing food for my family which is one of humanity's most enduring activities over thousands and thousands of years is fun.
I also hunt with a selfbow I made myself in the style of a 9,000 year old Danish bow known as a Holmegaard, and arrows I make and fletch myself. I use modern broadheads for legal reasons, but would use flint (I also flintknap. Why would someone make shapes out of rocks for fun?!?!) if I could.
Last edited by ABQConvict; 11-12-2012 at 12:28 PM..
I don't get it. I know people who got up early this morning to go and sit in a deer stand in the cold waiting for a deer to come close enough for them to shoot. Why?
Mankind is an omnivorous, predator species. I imagine there's a base thrill that comes with killing a food animal.
I think this is an underrated observation.
Hunting is an adventure of sorts. It doesn't interest me, but other adventures (of sorts) do, such as trekking deep into the backcountry. Both involve leaving much of the modern world behind and touching, just a little, of the way our prehistoric ancestors lived their lives.
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