ORIGINAL: wahoohunter
Betsy,
Unfortunately the mistakes of a few have seemed to ruined your opinion of hunters all together. I'd say 99% of the people on this site become, as I do, sick in the stomach to think of a wounded deer. In my opinion, if you're not 110% confident in your ability to make the shot, and if you have not practiced in order to achieve this confidence, then you have no business in the woods with a loaded firearm. And, I'm confident that most people agree with me on that.
As far as lashing out and making statements such as "if you're going to be so childish" and all that...you seem to have no problem giving the hunting community your opinion, but you seem awfully worried of the responses you may get ( ex. "before you get all angry"), so who really is being the childish one here?
Agreed. Most people don't post about every single animal they killed with a single shot. When a mistake happens, it is brought up to learn from it.
As far as her (I won't say "Your" because I have no doubt she'll never be back to this site) attitude and comments about the actions, tactics, dress and mental state of hunters, I wonder what person in her life hurt her by hunting, or what other personal experience she had with it. When someone speaks so vigorously about something they obviously have no true experience with, it tells me they were hurt by someone who partook of the activity, or that they avoid actually experiencing any activity, so they can sit back and criticize those who do it. I'm sure she has someexpertise on every activity she has never tried, and how all its participants are idiots.
What a sadexistence that needs to yell at strangers for doing no different than every other animal on earth.