Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
Yeah you are right, it is too all inclusive. That wasn't intended to include you, sorry you thought it was. I was pizzed when I wrote it. The problem isn't trophy hunters or hunters who target big bone, they have always been with us, generally people knew who they were, they were the guys who killed big deer, however that was before all the tv experts shows that started one segment of hunters to tell another segment what they should do. It is those who want everyone else to pass on what in many cases may be the biggest or only buck they ever had in their sights so it can grow into their idea of a trophy deer. That is what trips my trigger. Some folks just want to enjoy hunting and putting meat in the freezer and there is nothing wrong with that and when they are called selfish that is over the top.
I just read a current affairs forum earlier(about that lion) and the crazies are lumping all kinds of phrases into the very small group of people that are just not really hunters at all.
Sport hunters, trophy hunters etc.
Can't we call these people something that does not end with "hunters"?
Sport hunter,trophy hunter,meat hunter etc. As long as we eat the meat and don't waste the animals isn't it all good?
Its just another thing the crazies try to run with "trophy hunters" they want to think that means people who want nothing but the trophy and waste everything else. That is absolute nonsense and that BS certainly shouldn't be encouraged or catered to by people that actually have some damn sense.
Amongst hunters it needs to be very clear that is not what "trophy hunter" means. Sure is does happen but its not hunters doing that stuff.