After 17 pages I had to pop in and read a couple.

When I hunt, I am out there to kill something, that’s why I carry a bow/gun. I know the majority of times that I venture out, I’m not going to get anything. That’s just part of it.

When I kill a deer, I feel no remorse or pleasure in the act itself. I do take HUGE joy in getting the animal I was after, but to me that is different than taking pleasure in the actual act of killing. The only time I feel bad, is when the act doesn’t go as cleanly as I feel it should due to my own fault. Even though I try to shoot as many deer as I can, it’s not the pleasure in killing that drives me. It’s the repeated culmination of my efforts at hunting (and all that is involved) which leads to success, that I take pleasure in. I KNOW I will have a good time while hunting whether successful or not.