06-26-2020, 09:15 PM
(06-26-2020, 10:36 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I don't hunt at all, but I think big game hunters have a serious problem. Deer hunters are also doing it for the thrill of the hunt. I mean I know they eat the meat or give it away, but they are hunting because they want to hunt, and yet I draw a distinction between hunting deer or fowl to big game hunting. Even if they aren't killing endangered species, there's just something not right about them in my book. How do you pose next to a giraffe or an elephant you just killed with a big smile on your face?
This could derail the thread, so forgive me if that happens. While I've never hunted outside of Pennsylvania and Virginia, I know some folks that have done the exotics hunts. Hunting is an adrenaline rush, that is for sure. Not everyone has the same motives; I am a meat hunter. You won't find a set of antlers in my house. But some people do it for the story, for the experience. Some of the hunts (more like tahr in New Zealand than safari stuff in Africa) is physically taxing and it is a matter of pushing yourself.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
