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Old 07-10-2008 | 02:54 PM
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I don't have a problem with the term Kill but the term harvest is what I was brought up on. Way back when I started there wasn't a hunting season that we waited for. When we needed meat, we just took a .22, went out back behind the graineries and popped a deer in the head (usually a doe). There really wasn't much sport to it. It simply was one of the nessecities (food). Now forty some years later it is much different. My sons have a hard time understanding when I explain how it was when I was a kid. (at Christmas I was lucky to get a Christmas orange and a half a doz. hard candies). So the term harvest was just ingrained in me and that was well before political correctness became an issue. It's just like calling a fawn a calf. I know it's incorrect language but once again it's what was ingrained. As to antlers, I remember my grandfather saying as we butchered a doe in the barn, "you can't eat horns". I supposethe term harvestmay be also due to when we harvested an animal we would always say a prayer thanking God for allowing us to harvest one of his creatures. I still have my sons say the same prayer.
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