So here's my take on Political Correctness and the use of the term harvest. In general PC terminology is a weak attempt to try and make people feel better about themselves in a rather ambiguous fashion. For the most part it's things like disabled/handicapped...black/African-American...dwarf/little person...dumber than hell/cerebrally challenged...you get my drift. Now maybe kill/harvest can be filed in that same category, but here's how I see it differently. Using the term harvest is considerably less likely to offend that average non-hunter that straddles the middle ground between us hunters and the PETA types that want to see us shut down for good. Whether we like it or not the vast majority of the voting public are non-hunters and we as hunters have the power to push them to vote against us if we offend them. So in the end it's really a self serving issue with me. If I use the term harvest I figure I'm less likely to have those non-hunters vote me out of my favorite past time. I take full responsibility for killing the animals that I hunt and I understand perfectly well that I'm taking a life, but I still choose to use the word harvest when in mixed company, including online forums. I really don't see it any differently than taking the time to put the tongue back in the mouth of a harvested animal and wiping the blood off of its muzzle before I take photos of it. It's just that added little bit that can keep from offending the middle ground people like my own mother, who support others right to hunt, but don't reallycare forthe blood and guts that go with it. Now, I know I digress because the original post was in regard to a female hunter that may have been offended by "killing" and not a non-hunter, but I say so what. She's hunting, she's supporting the sport that we all love, and she'll probably convince some of her girlfriends of the merits of hunting. Who cares if she wants to call it wilderness meat shopping, she's on our side isn't she. In the end I'd rather have the opportunity to harvest game animals until I'm an old man, than have my right to kill critters taken away at the ballot box. That's my two cents.

AK Jeff