Do you hunt or have you ever hunted?

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: Do you hunt or have you ever hunted?

I mean going out with guns to hunt deer, ducks, etc.

[motely36]

1. Never have never will

but it's all people talk about this time of year at my new job.

[Symarip]

6. Tell me about it.

I don't have a problem with hunting but people who do hunt (and fish) seem to think it's worthy of 2 hour long discussions in front of my office.

[motely36]

14. I agree

great you hunt...but please don't tell me about deer urine and other things. I don't want to know

[MissMillie]

2. does fishing count?

there's no gun involved, but the premise is the same.

[Bertha Venation]

4. Yeah, why not?

:hi: MM

[MissMillie]

5. then, yes

:hi:

[Orsino]

3. Never have, and probably never will.

I hope never to get that hungry.

[NightWatcher]

7. I hunt/have hunted PEOPLE

okay, not for food or like in that movie with Ice-T, but I have done bounty hunter work and private investigations

[XemaSab]

35. The deadliest prey of all

:thumbsup:

[Deep13]

8. I checked #3 before I remembered I used to go fishing when I was small.

It really doesn't interest me. If I depended on it for protein, I would feel differently. Besides, my wife is deeply opposed to animal cruelty, so I would not want to upset her. I'm not opposed to it myself. Archery hunting might be fun, but again, don't want Sweetie to feel sad for the animal.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Ages ago I did.

Don't think I could now, unless I was reallly hungry.

[Lyric]

10. I have in the past, but not recently.

But I have no moral problem with doing so, unless we're talking trophy hunts, which are just fucking disgusting.

[SOteric]

11. I hunt for socks.

[Inchworm]

12. I checked I hunt

I really don't directly and never have. When I went with hunters my usual task was what you would expect dogs to do.

I'd flush out birds or track shot deer. I've always loved running in the woods, and it was always a good excuse to do so. During high school I trapped for fur... go figure. Can't see me wanting to do that now.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

13. I have in the past. I don't.

:shrug:

[RebelOne]

15. Never hunted or fished.

Hunting is a cruel sport (if you want to call it a sport because the other side is not equally armed).

[Rob H.]

16. I went hunting a few times while I was in high school

Went deer hunting with my dad and only saw one among the handful of times I went. I used to go fishing, too, but not anymore.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. No, but my husband did.

Many times it helped us out of a grocery bind.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Ugh. Never, ever.

That's probably just about last on my list of things to do.

I'd rather go to church regularly than hunt once, and, hoo boy, if you knew me that would tell you how much I would despise hunting.

[supernova]

19. No, but plenty of neighbors do

And they do eat the meat of whatever they kill. It isn't just trophy killing.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. I don't hunt, but I work with a bunch of guys that hunt. I have no problem with

it as long as you follow state game laws and eat what you kill.

[pokerfan]

39. Friend of mine doesn't eat his kill

because he's vegetarian. So he donates the meat to a local food bank.

[Arkansas Granny]

41. At least it gets eaten by somebody and isn't left to rot in the woods.

[ogneopasno]

21. I voted "yes" for fishing, and as soon as we can hit the bullseye consistently, my son and I will go

bowhunting for deer.

[SoxFan]

22. I fish occasionally, but never hunt

I like deep sea fishing, especially when the schools of bluefish are running.

I'd like to go out earlier in the season and go after cod and haddock. Much better eating than bluefish or mackerel, which can be on the oily side.

[MorningGlow]

23. No way

I just couldn't. I'm one of those folks who can't look my next meal in the eye. I rely on others for my meat, and although I haven't actively sought out local, grass-fed, free-range, hugged-and-petted, killed-with-a-prayer critters, I sincerely want to.

I also can't stand to see gutted deer hung up in people's front yards to drain (this was on a main street in the next village over). I mean, d00d, put it in the back yard or somethin'. :scared:

[City of Mills]

24. I hunt with a camera

Sure, you miss out on some tasty wild game, but you get to capture their SOULS, man!

[IndianaJones]

25. I hunt several different types of game. nt.

[flvegan]

26. I don't, nor have ever shot and killed an animal ("hunting").

[wartrace]

27. I do not hunt but I will shoot coyotes.

There is a former Tyson chicken operation down in the valley below my place. He used to leave his dead chickens outside the barn & it drew a LOT of coyotes. The guy was foreclosed on so he no longer has chickens there but the coyotes still come. They stop by here to see if there is anything to eat. I have yet to actually kill one as yelling at them makes them scoot. If they continue I will have to kill one because I am going to add a small chicken coop this winter for some spring chickens. While they are generally harmless they will try to enter the chicken area. I am also concerned about my two cats although I try to keep them inside they sometimes get out.

[Lorien]

29. Use coyote repellant instead:

http://www.freewebs.com/walnut_creek_enterprises/coyote.htm

and read: http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/

Your can't get rid of wildlife by killing it unless you kill thousands, because nature will always fill a vacuum.

[wartrace]

30. I would rather not kill them, I'll have to investigate your suggestion.

I don't enjoy the thought of killing them at all. I wonder if that will work in areas that do not have cougers? Will the local coyotes know to fear the couger sound? My better bet would be one or two of these.......

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. My dogs herding trainer uses those for coyotes and bear

They are quite effective.

[Lorien]

28. Never, but I've done wildlife rehab

wild animals are just as filled with intelligence and emotion as any pet-probably more so. I've put so much time, energy and love into saving orphaned and sick animals-and then some cold hearted human kills them for "sport" or because they happen to be on their "property". It sickens me and breaks my heart.

[dembotoz]

31. only in bars-and not very well

[hendo]

32. I used to go varmint hunting

well, varmint shooting. Prarie Dogs while cute are responsible for horses breaking thier legs. :(

[quakerboy]

33. Dad took me when I was young

Never did figure out how to shoot something that hopped up and down like a bunny with Air Jordans...

Between a personal refusal to take any shot that I did not feel 100% certain would result in an immediate death, and the fact that and I had no interest in cleaning a deer, I had fun tagging along with the "menfolk", but I never did get around to firing a single shot at anything living.

Its not something I would rule out of any future existence I may have(say, post apocalyptic world where my wife needs food and I still suck at growing anything plantlike in nature) but its nothing i have any plans about. Unless the Zombies show up, in which case all bets are off.

[LanternWaste]

34. Once when I was fifteen...

Once when I was fifteen... some friends and I went out camping and one brought along an additional .22 rifle. I shot a rabbit with a badly placed bullet (it lived (and screamed) for a few seconds before a pal put the killing shot into it).

I cried that night, and though there was never a conscious decision, I've never touched a firearm (and to preempt the purists and contrarians-- "...or bow, or crossbow, or any other hunting weapon") since.

Some years later, when I was in college, a newly-found friend suggested I read "Out Of My Life and Thought", the autobiography of Albert Schweitzer. Besides being a profoundly life-altering read in and of itself, I came across a particular passage that I've since recorded to memory, and try to live by (with all practical restriction taken into consideration)...

"As the housewife who has scrubbed the floor sees to it that the door is shut, so that the dog does not come in and undo all her work with his muddy paws, so religious and philosophical thinkers have gone to some pains to see that no animals enter and upset their system of ethics."






Although I do like to shoot animals, these days my preferred "weapon" is a Nikon FM10 camera :)

[tigereye]

36. my one brother does

but usually for food. Other brothers fish, but they usually throw em back.


I don't like either one, but I can understand that it provides food for people who may have limited funds and resources.

[mokawanis]

37. Dropped a shotgun that went off

I was hunting with a friend when my 12-gauge shotgun slipped from my hands and discharged when it hit the ground, firing the buckshot in front of my legs but not hitting me. I stopped hunting that day and will never hunt again.

Even if that had not happened I would have quit hunting anyway because I just don't want to kill anything. I don't even keep the fish I catch, I release them back into the water.

[TommyO]

38. I don't hunt, and never have, but I have benefited from it

A friend of mine hunted before she passed away and every year, right around this time, I received a gift of venison summer sausage. I miss it, and I miss Darlene even more.

[ceile]

40. No, but my man goes deer hunting every Jan.

He usually comes back with good deal of meat-keeps us stocked for several months.

[old mark]

42. Yes, usually , Have not for the last several years, but plan to

maybe late this winter.

mark

[frogmarch]

43. Nope, and I never will. n/t

[Shell Beau]

45. I have never and could never hunt!

I have fished before and have always thrown them back. I can't do it anymore.I feel bad. I mean it is a hook and sometimes it catches and goes through their eyes. Plus they are thrown in a cooler and flop around. Seems mean. And if they are strung up by their gills, they usually drown. My husband fishes and keeps them and eats them. :shrug:

[LeftyMom]

46. Only the wily and elusive pepsi can.

[Canuckistanian]

47. Never hunted, but will always accept venison or other products from hunters I know

Venison, Ruffed Grouse (called "Partridge" around here), Moose and even Bear.

I had them all given to me by hunter friends.

[doc03]

48. I can't believe this 47 posts about hunting and

it hasn't degenerated into a flame fest by anti-gun and anti-hunting people.

[Ava]

49. never have and never ever will

and i won't date guys who do. i don't understand how killing animals could be fun :shrug:

[Auggie]

50. No. No way.

[astral]

51. I was there once, but I didn't have the gun

nor did I have to carry the deer. Didn't like it.

[txwhitedove]

52. No hunting, but once shot a big snake in the chicken coop...eeeww!

x(

[MrSlayer]

53. I do not nor have I ever.

I'm a city boy, I want nothing to do with the woods or killing animals. I'll take my Disney vacations and meat from the butcher.