Originally Posted by
SeaScene
Well said... I agree. The only validation should (rightly) be at the dinner table...
Sorry but I don’t agree with this. There are many reasons people hunt and some of those reasons are more important to them than others. My family has been raised on wild meat and I still have grown kids that do their meat shopping in my freezer, but I know of quite a few guys that hunt and their families won’t eat wild meat. Lots of bear hunters with families that won’t touch bear meat.
Trying to convince anti hunters that we hunt for sustenance is a transparent lie in my opinion. So is trying to convince those same people that we have to kill wolves because they are evil non empathetic hunters that also kill babies. To me it’s about managing a resource and that resource is wildlife which includes both predators and prey animals.
This is my opinion that I’ve shared before but here it is again.
Re: Op-Ed in today’s Province paper
“using food as a reason is simply an excuse for recreational hunting for the vast majority of hunters.”
This is the only thing in the article I actually agree with, and as a Hunter I will own it all day long.
I’ve been hunting for a long time and in reality the last reason I have for going hunting is because of hunger.
I hunt because the desire to find animals is strong in my DNA and my personality. I’m always hunting no matter whether I’m driving to work or walking with my wife in the park, I’m always looking for animals.
I hunt because I love the challenge, love the training and preparation and completing the loop by processing my own meat and doing my own taxidermy.
I would be an idiot to think I could convince somebody that I hire a float plane to drop me in the mountains, or take a jet boat, or take a large camp setup with RV’s, tents, quads, etc, all costing a lot of $$$$ to wherever I like to go, all because I want food. People aren’t that stupid. I think Hunters try too hard to justify hunting by selling it as something it’s not. It’s way to easy to see through the “hunting for sustenance” reasoning. Don’t get me wrong the meat is a great side benefit. I only kill animals that I choose to kill and I’m totally ok with having an unfilled tag and the reason I can do that is because it has very little to do with needing the food source.
Hunting in Canada is a sport/lifestyle/passion/hobby,,,,,,,,,,,, and in my opinion that’s what we need to fight for because it’s honest and it describes most of what we do.