I was recently approached by a group of anti hunters, when I exited a store and was asked why I hunt ? I told them I would tell them if they set down with me and let me, but I would not engage is a shouting match in the parking lot. Four of the women and one man set down and listened to me.
I told them that in the very beginning ( 1940's ), it was at least to some degree subsistence hunting. We always ate what we hunted and even used the hides to supplement our income.
I also explained that all our hunts were fair chase hunts that we never hunted a high wire type hunt and therefore the animals we hunted had a much better chance of not being harvested than the beef cattle that ended up on their dinner table.
But people, even in my own family hunt for different reasons. Trophy hunting, desire to hunt a specific animal, desire to hunt with a specific rifle, the challenge, the camaraderie, being in the mountains, plains, tundra, savannah and of course the meat, especially if it is Coues deer or Dall sheep lol
For me it was the "hunt itself" and being where the animal being hunted lived. I didn't even need to harvest the animal for it to be a successful hunt. To just name a very short few places that I am glad I hunted, the Mackenzie mountains in the Northwest Territories, dog sledding to our hunts in Nunavut , float plane to a lake north of Ft.Yukon, Alaska. Any sheep or goat hunt, North America, Europe, New Zealand, I was all in. Loved the camaraderie and friendships established throughout Europe and Africa was at least for me, very special and different than any other hunts, especially when hunting the dangerous game animals.
Regrets, you bet. I never got to hunt Tigers or Marco Polo, but wanted to. We researched Tigers in the 1960's but it was soon thereafter hunting them was banned and as close as we got was an elephant ride on a "tiger tour" in India. Marco Polo was in a part of the world my husband was never conformable taking me, so it never happened.
Your turn----Why do you hunt ? Trophy, meat, challenge, etc, etc , etc---or all the aforementioned including the etc's
I told them that in the very beginning ( 1940's ), it was at least to some degree subsistence hunting. We always ate what we hunted and even used the hides to supplement our income.
I also explained that all our hunts were fair chase hunts that we never hunted a high wire type hunt and therefore the animals we hunted had a much better chance of not being harvested than the beef cattle that ended up on their dinner table.
But people, even in my own family hunt for different reasons. Trophy hunting, desire to hunt a specific animal, desire to hunt with a specific rifle, the challenge, the camaraderie, being in the mountains, plains, tundra, savannah and of course the meat, especially if it is Coues deer or Dall sheep lol
For me it was the "hunt itself" and being where the animal being hunted lived. I didn't even need to harvest the animal for it to be a successful hunt. To just name a very short few places that I am glad I hunted, the Mackenzie mountains in the Northwest Territories, dog sledding to our hunts in Nunavut , float plane to a lake north of Ft.Yukon, Alaska. Any sheep or goat hunt, North America, Europe, New Zealand, I was all in. Loved the camaraderie and friendships established throughout Europe and Africa was at least for me, very special and different than any other hunts, especially when hunting the dangerous game animals.
Regrets, you bet. I never got to hunt Tigers or Marco Polo, but wanted to. We researched Tigers in the 1960's but it was soon thereafter hunting them was banned and as close as we got was an elephant ride on a "tiger tour" in India. Marco Polo was in a part of the world my husband was never conformable taking me, so it never happened.
Your turn----Why do you hunt ? Trophy, meat, challenge, etc, etc , etc---or all the aforementioned including the etc's
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