Poll: Hunting

[Fanboy]

Like White Buffelo. White Buffelo is a company that is hired by towns that do not allow hunting at all, when their deer population gets so out of control that the deer become a problem to the public(when rich people start complaining about their brand new mercedes getting repaired because they hit a deer). What the company does is:
1)hire ex snipers
2)give them high powered rifles
3)set up food so all the deer go to one spot
4)pay them to sit there at 4am blowing the deer's heads off from 50 feet away(with high powered, night vision scopes).

This happend in a highly developed town not to far from me that put an all-out ban on hunting.

Yes, that is the kind of "hunting" I frown upon.

oh you think hunting is one sided ey? This deer has something else to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko

I don't see your point. The deer was defending itself the best it could, and the hunter still lived.

He got what he deserved for being thick enough to get that close. He underestimated the deer's will to protect itself, which shows his lack of respect for nature.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Hunting's not my thing, but that doesn't mean others shouldn't hunt. I do object to indescriminate hunting, the kind that is wasteful (trophy hunting bugs me especially, unless the meat gets used too, and organ harvesting (like the bear gall-bladder or shark fin thing) drives me up the wall) or that will eventually shut itself down by overdepleting the prey population.

And I hold "tethered hunts" in complete disdain; those wankers aren't hunters so much as couch potatos breathing slightly fresher air.

-- Steve

 

[Zykon TheLich]

oh you think hunting is one sided ey? This deer has something else to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko

I don't see your point. The deer was defending itself the best it could, and the hunter still lived.

I think his point was that it's a funny video.

 

[TMAN10112]

Morally reprehensible and a waste of time.

have you ever tryed hunting? Why do you think it is morally reprehensible? please explain.

 

[Fanboy]

oh you think hunting is one sided ey? This deer has something else to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko

I don't see your point. The deer was defending itself the best it could, and the hunter still lived.

I think his point was that it's a funny video.

Well that I can agree to.

 

[shadowcypher]

Hunting for food, or as a measure to maintain an ecosystem (ie controlling numbers) is fine in my books. Although I dont agree with hunting for entertainment. Granted, some methods are more humane than others (like fox-hunting), but in my opinion it's pointless and distasteful to take pleasure in killing something else.

 

[Trace2010]

I don't know how hunting works in UK and USA, but in my coutry hunters are necessary to keep the balance in the forest's ecosystem

Exactly. And great idea representing Bob Marley as your avatar: he was before my time, but one of the greatest musicians in existence.

 

[Trace2010]

Hunting's not my thing, but that doesn't mean others shouldn't hunt. I do object to indescriminate hunting, the kind that is wasteful (trophy hunting bugs me especially, unless the meat gets used too, and organ harvesting (like the bear gall-bladder or shark fin thing) drives me up the wall) or that will eventually shut itself down by overdepleting the prey population.

And I hold "tethered hunts" in complete disdain; those wankers aren't hunters so much as couch potatos breathing slightly fresher air.


-- Steve

In truth, hunting only works if people play by the rules. Though I hear hunting by railroad (and helicopter!!) is fun too.

 

[Hawgh]

I don't see much point to hunting, except trying to uphold the hopelessly shattered ecosystems of the modern world.
Seeing as that's a pretty necessary thing to do, I don't really see why anyone would have a problem with hunting.

 

[Jursa]

The only thing I find wrong with hunting is the odds. I mean it's you with a scoped rifle and enough bullets to carve a smiley face on it's skin vs an animal(quite possibly with a family) who's just trying to survive in the world we're all already trying to demolish. Some people might say it's the same as eating meat but I don't buy that. Those animals were grown and killed for that particular reason(food), cruel but it doesn't upset any balance. People however hunt the strongest and the fastest, which means not only do they kill a creature that was... you know... just out for a morning stroll, but also fuck up the balance because they keep killing the leaders. Natural selection is NOT the same thing, it's always the weakest that get taken down and if you find any fun in taking down weak and sick animals, you are sick! Hunting is and always was fine as a matter of survival. So if you're hunting the critter because you are starving, then ya it's okey dokey, if you're hunting it for sport (tho the definition of sport in this area is strange, because sport is about something hard to achieve, not sitting on your ass in a tent waiting to pull the trigger) I find that weird.

 

[Shivari]

Hunting is the manliest sport out there but those hippy vegiterians don't think so. Its basic nature ,we have been hunting for millenia. Though I've never been hunting because I can't own a gun.

you can always try hunting with a bow, or crossbow. They requir no firearms licence and are still very deadly.

If it doesn't involve an animal's brains getting blown out I'm not intrested.

I love mankind.

I guess I'm not I'm not against hunting if it's to preserve the ecosystem that's totally messed up, but I admit I'm not terribly educated on the matter. If the ecosystem is really that messed up, then alright, fine. If there is a better way though, we should be doing that, but as I said, I'm not sure if there is one. But guess who did that to the ecosystem? Us! So I'll just go ahead and say that the whole of humanity totally sucks and just leave it at that.

Hunting just for fun is horrible though.

 

[Trace2010]

I don't know how hunting works in UK and USA, but in my coutry hunters are necessary to keep the balance in the forest's ecosystem

Exactly. And great idea representing Bob Marley as your avatar: he was before my time, but one of the greatest musicians in existence.

except thats Jimi Hendrix...

####, you're right- Santa Hat threw me off. Just shows you have even better taste than I thought before. My bad.

 

[TMAN10112]

Why do you think it is morally reprehensible?

Killing animals is neither worthwhile nor necessary. Doing it for fun & enjoyment is just sick.

There are multiple reasons why I hunt. some are:
-the meat, I feel better knowing where the meat I am eating comes from.
-I love being out in the woods, I enjoy the hunt regardless of weather I get a deer or not
-it helps the enviorment, with the lack of enough natural preditors, and space the deer will be wiped out by a lack of food or disease. Its either we hunt(give them a chance) or we let White Buffelo do it(read my earlier post on this)
-it is a challenge
-when hunting you get the opurtunity to see animals in the wild besides what you are hunting, seeing something like a egale or fox in the wild is like nothing eles(the resolution is way higher in real life).
-the adrenaline, the feeling you get when you see the animal you have been after for so long is like no videogame I have ever played.
-we are simply taking the role of a preditor, people have been hunting since we evolved the brains to(or were created if your religious), why are are we different all of a sudden?

 

[TMAN10112]

The only thing I find wrong with hunting is the odds. I mean it's you with a scoped rifle and enough bullets to carve a smiley face on it's skin vs an animal(quite possibly with a family) who's just trying to survive in the world we're all already trying to demolish. Some people might say it's the same as eating meat but I don't buy that. Those animals were grown and killed for that particular reason(food), cruel but it doesn't upset any balance. People however hunt the strongest and the fastest, which means not only do they kill a creature that was... you know... just out for a morning stroll, but also fuck up the balance because they keep killing the leaders. Natural selection is NOT the same thing, it's always the weakest that get taken down and if you find any fun in taking down weak and sick animals, you are sick! Hunting is and always was fine as a matter of survival. So if you're hunting the critter because you are starving, then ya it's okey dokey, if you're hunting it for sport (tho the definition of sport in this area is strange, because sport is about something hard to achieve, not sitting on your ass in a tent waiting to pull the trigger) I find that weird.

hunting is one of the most challenging things I'v ever atempted, I'v been hunting for 2 years and never gotten a deer, barly got one in range to shoot. Also where I live you cannot use rifles, there is a season for bows, shotgun(as close to a rifle as you can get), and muzzeloaded(uses one bullet pushed down the barrel after the powder, so you only have one shot).

 

[kommando367]

I'm a hunter in my opinion hunting is honorable,and it prevents overpopulation of the deer species and many others. also deer meat is delicous.
what i don't get is why those tree ******* hippies, while knowing that it would eventually put an end to an entire species, want people to stop hunting

 

[videonerd250]

Like White Buffelo. White Buffelo is a company that is hired by towns that do not allow hunting at all, when their deer population gets so out of control that the deer become a problem to the public(when rich people start complaining about their brand new mercedes getting repaired because they hit a deer). What the company does is:
1)hire ex snipers
2)give them high powered rifles
3)set up food so all the deer go to one spot
4)pay them to sit there at 4am blowing the deer's heads off from 50 feet away(with high powered, night vision scopes).

This happend in a highly developed town not to far from me that put an all-out ban on hunting.

I don't think this is "hunting" really. These snipers are just doing their jobs, which is to reduce the deer population to a point where it can't hurt the ecosystem or humans.

 

[LewsTherin]

Hunting for shits and giggles is disgusting. Hunting for food is necessary.

 

[Milford Cubicle]

If you're going to eat what you shoot, then fair enough. If you just kill it for shits and giggles, then I don't agree with that. Mostly. Some animals need killed en masse. Grey squirrels for one.

I couldn't kill an animal though, I don't think.

 

[PatientGrasshopper]

I think people should hunt, however I don't like it when people just shoot something and then leave, I think if you are going to hunt either do something useful with the dead animal. Also,I guess if an animals is threatening you or your pets, but that is more self defense than hunting.

 

[the monopoly guy]

I hunt down repeat threads.
Without mercy.

I hunt small game and upland birds. I own a deer rifle but there's no place for me to hunt (it's all either private or public lands hunted to death).