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That part of rational gets completely blocked out. People who do that for fun don't see it as a lack of respect or understanding, it's just fun. If anything it's thought of as population control, which can be somewhat accurate with certain species.
fun isn't the right word you know ... well, I guess you don't know
for tens of millions of American's it isn't - most states have Constitutional Rights to hunt - you literally want to remove Constitutional Rights ?
nobody respects wildlife more than people who hunt and fish - remember, we're the reason we have game animals, waterfowl, etc etc. Hunters/Conservationists/Fisherman etc ... we did that, not non-hunters and anti-hunters and we still 100% carry that burden even today
Many animals also kill their own young or eat their own feces. Should we follow that example too?
These guys know that you can pretty much get Viagra with nothing more than a CC number and a couple of mouse-clicks, right?
Are we now using extremes as general definition. You have hunt (pun intended) to find a video like this.
You can tell me. Google Exploding Prairie Dogs and see if I had to hunt for such videos or whether they are readily available. See whether the folks are serious into varmint control or like the kill. See whether folks are laughing or serious. See the use of tannerite or not.
My point was, it's not main stream. You've found an extreme corner of hunting society. My caution to others reading it, is that it is not the norm for all hunters.
It may be that it gets taken out of true context. I believe that such is more likely to happen when the subject is avoided rather than aired, but it may indeed. I do note that it was not I who brought up varmint shooting and shooting prairie dogs in particular.
hell no - we're better than animals, we have souls .... that's why its absurd for people to characterize any human behavior by comparing to animals
0.0002 % is my guess
At least with Deer it is deadly on the highways and would be devastating to crops. Many people supplement their diets with waterfowl, game birds and fish. These are managed species and the revenue drawn from licenses is one of the biggest sources to study and manage sustainable populations.
Absolutely. Not taking marginal shots at animals likely to injure rather than kill is taught.
In a way, prairie dog hunting is herd management. Both from the standpoint of prairie dogs and livestock. It is also about land management.
The herd management and land management is, in my estimation, a pretext at best for folks that like to shoot ####. 9 times out of 10 these occur where there are no herds, yet I have acknowledged, forthrightly, and at least, that the point is out there, sometimes. As for land management it destroys ecosystems, but then so too ranching if that is what it will be replaced with. No, folks do this because they like shooting living targets, the rest is all cover in my opinion.
I don't seek to insult you. I seek to question how you look down on those that may not look up to you?
The commercials for it seem gross. Shooting the guts of a fly out the other side and onto your food. Yum.
That was a sarcastic post. I am not anti-hunting, its just one of those things I dont get.
I catch and release when I can. If I can manage to catch pests in the house alive I will plop them back outside. Doesn't always work, but I try.
I know its anecdotal, but my experience growing up was not quite the respect you describe here. Live in a small town area with a lot of hunters, and they weren't shy about killing a squirrel or bird just 'cuz, swerving to run over an animal with their car, etc... none of that is respect for wildlife.
Cool. My brother has one and it seems to generally just stun things. Probably a different version.
Sheriff Bart posted a link about a bunch of kids being shot in STL.
Where did I ever say "good guy with a gun".
Who could have seen that coming?
doesn't like anything I'm familiar with at allKarmaPolice said:
what is your conclusion on this ?
Do you have a special designation for "hunters" and people who hunt? Yes, they were hunters. Small town WI - a pretty big portion of the population hunts around here.
My current home encroaches into historic range for prairie dogs, and so too, then, prairie rattlers. Less and less over the years do we see a rattlesnake, though they were not uncommon when we first moved in. My wife is deathly afraid of snakes, me, I appreciate them for what they are. Generally that means when I encountered one I would get my rake, rake it into a garbage can, close the lid, drive it out 10 miles or so and then dump the live snake out there. This I would do without my wife's participation or direct knowledge until after the fact.
