I have been dwelling on certain things lately with the WHA bringing these thoughts even more often into my head.

I think the whole idea of the WHA is moronic..........actually I wonder sometimes if everyone tried really hard if they could even come up with something worse. Having said that, my thoughts revolve around the non lethal end of those hunts.

Over the years I would say well over 95% of people I have met who do not like hunting..........really have nothing against hunting. They don't like killing. No matter how many times or how logically it is explained to them they still can not remove from their minds that an animal gets killed (assuming success). I have struggled in the upstream swim of explaining a million times how I don't love to kill things........I love to hunt. If I loved to kill I would just shoot every critter I saw and leave them lay there. I do kill and I have killed a lot and will hopefully kill a lot more..........but it is more of a piece of the pie then it is the focal point. Some people understand and some people don't.........I can't even say I blame them. It makes sense to me and that is all I know.

So how do we make people understand it's not about killing something?

My wife said to me the other day while watching Stan Potts kill a deer that she could see how people think it is sick to get that excited over killing something. I said to her that he is not that excited becuase he killed something. Any knucklehead can hit a deer's vitals from 15 yards away..........that is not the accomplishment......it's just the icing on the cake......or in the deer's case, the nail in the coffin. She understands that because she is my wife and knows more then average. Her observation made me look closer at some shows lately though and I could see how people who don't know any better would think it's anywhere from odd to down right sick to "celebrate" killing something.

Or is it about killing something?............maybe I am speaking out of school and not as many people feel the same as I do.

To me it is about the hunt.........and everything that went into it. I make no excuses for the kill and don't think for a second that I need to. However, it would be nice if people understood there is 99.99% of hunting that they are overlooking when they focus on the split second a kill shot is made.

Maybe if a few of these morons on TV took a more respectful approach to a post kill reaction rather then looking like a teenager who just felt his first boob...........we wouldn't have to be coming up with idiotic ideas like the WHA.


Just felt like ranting