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This thread really makes me step back and wonder about myself. Even when I was a youngster running through the woods with my beagles and a single shot 20 gauge hunting rabbits, the adrenalin rush was incredible at the kill. Whether it was because of the kill or because of the anticipation of the kill, I'm not sure. That's never changed for me, and it's amplified unbelieveably while deer hunting.

Now, take a look at the way I am when I'm not hunting. My cat's catch a mouse in the woods and bring it in. If it's still alive, I take it back out to the woods. If I find a snake around the house, I don't kill it. I catch it and take it out to the woods away from the house. I have a small decorative pond in one of my flower beds, and I'm always rescuing toads that get in and can't get out. I even try not to kill wolf spiders I find in the house. I scoop them up and throw them outside.

I kind of have a "Klingon" (Star Trek TNG) attitude towards hunting. I believe it's in our genetic make-up. We started out as hunter/gatherers, and I believe it's still in all of us to some extent... some much more than others it seems. The adrenalin rush of the hunt/kill can be and is addictive, but I also know that I'm not a merciless killer. I hate to see the animal I shoot suffer. I want a quick, clean kill. But... I want the kill.

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ORIGINAL: LittleChief
I kind of have a "Klingon" (Star Trek TNG) attitude towards hunting. I believe it's in our genetic make-up. We started out as hunter/gatherers, and I believe it's still in all of us to some extent... some much more than others it seems. The adrenalin rush of the hunt/kill can be and is addictive, but I also know that I'm not a merciless killer. I hate to see the animal I shoot suffer. I want a quick, clean kill. But... I want the kill.

Well said! Man is born a Predator! Although much of that instinct has been lost by many. I Love the scouting, I Love being Outdoors, I Love watching nature, I Love the Hunt, but most of all I Love the Kill.

Dan

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ORIGINAL: LittleChief

This thread really makes me step back and wonder about myself. Even when I was a youngster running through the woods with my beagles and a single shot 20 gauge hunting rabbits, the adrenalin rush was incredible at the kill. Whether it was because of the kill or because of the anticipation of the kill, I'm not sure. That's never changed for me, and it's amplified unbelieveably while deer hunting.

Now, take a look at the way I am when I'm not hunting. My cat's catch a mouse in the woods and bring it in. If it's still alive, I take it back out to the woods. If I find a snake around the house, I don't kill it. I catch it and take it out to the woods away from the house. I have a small decorative pond in one of my flower beds, and I'm always rescuing toads that get in and can't get out. I even try not to kill wolf spiders I find in the house. I scoop them up and throw them outside.

I kind of have a "Klingon" (Star Trek TNG) attitude towards hunting. I believe it's in our genetic make-up. We started out as hunter/gatherers, and I believe it's still in all of us to some extent... some much more than others it seems. The adrenalin rush of the hunt/kill can be and is addictive, but I also know that I'm not a merciless killer. I hate to see the animal I shoot suffer. I want a quick, clean kill. But... I want the kill.

Well said Little Chief!

So this is topic where for a hunter there is no right or wrong answer everyone feels a little different but deep inside feels the same but when posed the ? about coyotes I feel no guilt but a rabbit or a deer i do and I eat those.I need the hunt it is planted somwhere deep inside.I have no answer.I guess I love the kill.

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ORIGINAL: blackfish

So this is topic where for a hunter there is no right or wrong answer everyone feels a little different but deep inside feels the same but when posed the ? about coyotes I feel no guilt but a rabbit or a deer i do and I eat those.I need the hunt it is planted somwhere deep inside.I have no answer.I guess I love the kill.

And there ain't a thing wrong with that.;)

I think we're crossing wires here. Deer hunting pumps me up more than any other game I can hunt for FOOD. It's a rush unmatched by other hunts, for me anyway. LittleChief, I shoot copperheads without thinking twice about the "life" I'm taking when I find them around the house. Coyotes? They're vermin. I shoot one, I feel nothing. No remorse. No more than I do when I plunk those "cute" little squirrels (tree rats) off my bird feeders. I don't know why a deer is more special to me life wise than a coyote, but it is. If we didn't like to kill, excuse me, love to kill, we'd all just shoot 3D targets all the time.

An anti hunter or a non hunter could answer this simply yes or no as alot of us can t answer it good forum

valor10,
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say you think we're crossing wires. I agree that we see some things differently, but I believe we agree on a lot of important issues. Where exactly do you think we are crossing wires?

Thiss is very thought provoking to me ... that's why I posted it ......... so there were MANYthat said they would NEVER kill just to kill .... yet they haven't thought about the crows and coyotes, snakes, woodchucks .. etc etc that they have done just that ........

It was a great topic. It's something that I never really gave much consideration to before. It sort of makes you do a little "self-analysis", you know?