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Sport hunting is cruel. The only good reason to hunt is for food.

Thank you!

I hunt for fun, but I never kill. I suppose it’s not really hunting, but it isn’t wrong.

jcd wrote:
Sport hunting is cruel. The only good reason to hunt is for food.

I was gonna say basically the same thing.

Sir Cody † wrote:
I hunt for fun, but I never kill. I suppose it’s not really hunting, but it isn’t wrong.

So basically you’re just following the animal? Nothing wrong with that.

No, I get close enough for the kill.

but you don’t kill them?

No need for me to. I do it for sport not for blood. If I was hungry and was stranded or something I wouldn’t hesitate to cut.

Thats cool.

It’s fun.

Sport hunting is no more cruel than “sport eating” of hamburgers, fried chicken and fish.

Very true.

Sport hunting is not cruel as long as the hunter is making every effort to make his kill quick.

I’ve seen video’s of huge prides of lions in Africa take down elephants, do have any idea how long it takes for even a huge pride to down an elephant? That elephant suffers.
I’ve personally visited deer yards in the winter where there was widespread starvation due to over-population, starving / freezing to death in the middle of the winter is cruel.
Have you ever seen a killer whales practice with a seal? They literally toss it back forth through the air by hitting it with their tales. Researchers are not sure if it’s practice or just for fun, it’s gotta hurt like hell to be used like a tennis ball.

I hunt. I hunt for meat, I hunt for sport and I hunt for pleasure. Because of me the game population on the parcel of land we manage has never been better. By use sport hunting only the largest of the male deer on our mountain, it allows the male’s to have several years of guaranteed life, which ensure’s they will breed.
Hunting is hunting, it doesn’t matter what the hunter’s reason for doing it is. There are, at leats for me, a strict set of moral and ethical rules to follow though. The biggest one, I only shoot at what I know I can kill. You don’t take iffy or so-so shots ever. 1 shot, 1 kill. I am not being heartless or mean when I say that I strive to be as lethal as possible when I enter the forest to hunt.
The earth gives me animals to hunt and eat, I in turn give back to the earth some of the animal left behind for the scavengers to eat. I also know that by killing some, and not all, I am ensureing that species survival by trimming the population down some so that the local ecosystem can sustain that herd.

This is well put and very true.

I’ve never understood how anyone could find killing pleasurable.

It is an adrenaline rush.

I thought you said you never kill.

I said I do it for sport and not for blood and that is the reason I have never killed. I also said that if I was stranded or something I would not hesitate to…I see where I was misunderstood now. I meant that if I had to I would kill without hesitation. When I said cut I meant the animal. See I don’t use a bow or a gun. I use a favorite knife of mine. You can kill a deer and other animals instantaneously with a knife.

well said

Parry-alge is the most narrow minded person on earth. Animals are put on earth for us??? Animals are PUT on earth? Ha ha…what a stupid statement. He/she seems to be some religious zealot.
Hunting is cruel, and hunting for sports is inhuman. Maybe Patty-alge is PUT on earth to eat other animals…including dogs and cats.

Wow… someone comes close to implying that he does not believe that the world is not a complete accident and gets lambasted for it. Give it up kid that person doesn’t even visit this site. Were I you I would stop wasting energy on tring to refute what a person, who does not even realize that you put that here, says.

How can anyone hunt for fun? What is enjoyable about taking the life of an innocent animal. People who hunt for any other reason than population control are cowardly, and probably compensating somehow for their lack of size in their pants or lack of ability in the bedroom. Even if hunting for the purpose of population control, the hunter should still feel sad for the animal who’s life they’ve taken - and definately not find the experience enjoyable.

Real men are caring and compassionate and protect those who cannot protect themselves.