Here's why I ask the question...Should picking up a gun and shooting a deer -- even if it's NOT standing under a feeder -- be any different a moral issue in your mind than someone hunting over a feeder with a bow? Here's the reason I say that: To me (and yep, I know this can open a whole 'nother can of worms!
), shooting a deer with a gun is no more sport than what you perceive hunting over feeders to be!
I realize this is not a personal attack on anyone impaticular but rather a broad attack on all gun hunters. Your questioning the morals of Gun Hunters. Wow, you said it, it's a can of worms that you chose to open
ORIGINAL: Greg / MO
I don't know... maybe I'm the exception rather than the rule. But the first time I shot a deer with my .44 Remington Magnum rifle, I just felt no joy in the act of accomplishment. I saw the deer, and when I decided I wanted to take its life, the hunt was over. Before I even pulled the trigger.
Greg (Mr. Exception) Didn't you just lose a Cow Elk that was poorly hit with the bow? Which instance did you feel lessJoy in..The killing of the above Deer with the .44 or the point when you gave up trying to recover the Cow??
I'm sorry man..I know things happen to even good shots..but boy ya hit a nerve with some of your statements. Especially for a guy in the Hunting Industry..ProStaff, Mod and respected sportsman.