Ethics Question
#12
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: hurlock maryland USA
I had the same prob but it was onley 12 acs , i shot 5 the first year and my mother inlaw made a squ pop pie,it taste like!!!!!!!. so the next year i shot 5 more and let them lay , the bubuzzards got to eat to. This took care of the prob still have squs around but not 15 or 20.
#14
I agree with eating what you kill, but there are exceptions. For example, we have alot of nutria here. They aren' t native, do alot of damage to the duck population, and it' s pretty much recommended that you kill them when you can, but I would never want to eat one! As far as squirrel, they don' t cause much trouble here, but I had them fried once and they reminded me of meat-flavored rubberbands! Must have been cooked wrong?
#16
Fork Horn
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Toledo Ohio USA
First off, Tecbowhut, mankind is above ALL, absolutely EVERY animal. God gave man dominion over them. The only reason they were here first, which was only a few days anyhow, is because God made everything ready for man before He put us here. Would you put patients in a hospital room while it' s still being built? We aren' t infringing on their habitat. They are our habitat. I can understand not wanting to kill what you won' t eat, but everything needs to be checked. It' s man' s job as a steward of God' s creation to do some " useless" killing. It isn' t killing just to kill. It' s killing to keep things in check. Even if you did shoot it and leave it lay, it won' t go to waste. A coyote or a hawk or something is going to find it and make full use of it. ' Cause they for sure like squirrel! So you' ll be helpin your deer hunting and feedin a predator at the same time. How could that be a bad thing?
Brandan
#17
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Charlottesville IN USA
Once you learn to become one with the woods them squirrels won' t matter because you will know how to move about the woods without disturbing them, and they will alert you when game is nearby!




