Kill or harvest?
07-10-2008, 10:26 AM
#14
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 234
RE: Kill or harvest?
ORIGINAL: whitetaildreamer
You may take offence to the term harvest but that is how I look at it. Yes I have killed the animal but I am harvesting it from the wild. The entire experience of the hunt is important. I have never looked at it as going out for, "the kill". Venison is the primary red meat that my family eats. Besides getting out for the experience my main goal is to put meat in the freezer for the following year. As to the term, "city folk", that is a huge generalization. I spent much of my youth on the farm but have been living as "city folk", for the last 35 years. Is qualification of a hunter's skills based on where they live? Because I live and hunt in Canada where the average buck is 100 lbs. or more than the avg. buck in Texas, I'm a better hunter? I think not. (it's just the development of the species due to geographic location).
You may take offence to the term harvest but that is how I look at it. Yes I have killed the animal but I am harvesting it from the wild. The entire experience of the hunt is important. I have never looked at it as going out for, "the kill". Venison is the primary red meat that my family eats. Besides getting out for the experience my main goal is to put meat in the freezer for the following year. As to the term, "city folk", that is a huge generalization. I spent much of my youth on the farm but have been living as "city folk", for the last 35 years. Is qualification of a hunter's skills based on where they live? Because I live and hunt in Canada where the average buck is 100 lbs. or more than the avg. buck in Texas, I'm a better hunter? I think not. (it's just the development of the species due to geographic location).
About the horns vs antlers question- If a hunter uses the term "horns" it does not bother me because I know that he is using the term intentionally knowing that it is incorrect. If a non-hunter uses "horns" it grates me wrong because I believe they are UNintentionally using the wrong term. Ya gotta be in the hunting fraternity to use "horns". Even novices should not use that term until after we show them the secret handshake.
Bob
07-10-2008, 11:50 AM
#19
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Posts: 257
RE: Kill or harvest?
ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
Evidentally you care since you took time to read the whole thread and then post a comment
Evidentally you care since you took time to read the whole thread and then post a comment
Evidently - E-V-I-D-E-N-T-L-Y
Now that yourspelling lesson is over I will feel free to inform you that I did not read a single reply to this thread, let alone the whole thread as you seem to have perceived.
So, evidently you are indeed a moron.
