I think using a high caliber for small game is over kill. Not that the animal doesn’t deserve to blow up or some vegan or a.r.a. crap like that. My opinion on hunting: do whatever is necessary to bring it down, but waste nothing. If you blow it up with a huge caliber buffalo gun, your meat and pelt is screwed. You think the Indians hunted for the fun of the kill? They did it as a job that they were extremely efficient at. They hunted to put food on the table and clothes on there backs. Its like you going to your cubicle for you desk job. You don’t do it for the sheer joy of the paperwork or the adrenalin rush of the board meeting. Have you ever woke up and dreaded going to work? Well have ever you ever woken up and dreaded opening day of deer season? No.

the four things you owe to nature and the animal you kill:

1.be as good of a marks man as you can. if you sit up on a mountain looking over a prairie and you nail a deer 25 times until it dies, you are in the wrong. Not because its immoral, but because the suffering could have been avoided by you becoming a good shot and nailing him one, maybe too time in a vital point.
2.dont be repentant. If you take an animals life and try to hide it, you are in the wrong. Show what a beautiful animal it is: even in death, an animal should be hailed for being a remarkable piece of nature and the world we share with them.
3.praise the animal for being a trophy, not your self for downing it. It isn’t any harder to down a ten point buck than it is to down a 5 point buck(I realize that there are many exceptions, like the area, age, personal qualities of the animal, and such).if you got a trophy it means you followed rule number one. If someone got a 5 point, and you got the 10 point, you could have easily have traded places and that person would have killed it to.
4.dont waste any thing. You owe it to the animal to not take its life for nothing. Even if you could just go to the store and buy a hat, if you kill a raccoon, and you cant find a use for the skin, make a hat!

this is my opinion, and please post what you find different in your opinion.


I think ill put this in my signature and maybe make a topic about it. It took me a while to put my opinions in to words, and I don’t want to waste that time.