ORIGINAL: valor10
I’ve always had a hard time understanding this “I love to hunt, but really don’t enjoy the kill part”. Or the “It’s the whole experience, not the kill itself” I’m not saying it’s wrong, I just don’t understand it. The whole point of hunting is to kill. No other way to sugarcoat it. We ambush defenseless animals that have very little chance once they’ve been had. Why? Because they taste good, that’s why. If you don’t enjoy killing a deer, why kill it? I enjoy my hunt whether I kill something or not. But I sure enjoy it a lot more when I got something to go it that freezer. If you're really second guessing yourself as to taking that animals life, or feeling bad about taking it’s life, maybe you should re-think what you’re doing. You might be doing something that’s really against your nature. Maybe you do it because it’s perceived as manly. Maybe you do it because the other fellas do it. I don’t know? I’m not a psychotic serial killer; I’m not sexually aroused by killing a deer. My pets are as spoiled as any out there. I just get one heck of a rush when I see or hear that deer crash in the woods. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t hunt them. You’re a hunter; you’re a killer (of animals). They are one and the same. Modern day political correctness doesn’t change that. Doesn’t mean you aren’t a compassionate human being. Doesn’t mean you would ever harm another human being. What’s wrong with admitting snuffing an animal gives you joy? Watching it take its last breath, I think ‘YES”! Not, “poor little creature of the woods”.
Maybe you missed the point or feel diferently I don t think after 30 years of bow hunting I am going rethink somthing that I live for maybe it is because I have killed so much in the buisness that I am in it has made me feel diferently than you I don t know.To me I feel the ppl that posted on here that they had mixed emotions are more well the guys I have more respect as hunters as uposed to saying I like to kill things.