Why do we hunt?
 

Today in class I was wearing a legendary whitetails sweatshirt and had some girl come up to me and give me a hard time for hunting. I tuned her out and then she asked me why I hunt. I told her I hunt because I love being in the outdoors, I love the challenge, and its a good chance to get away from anything.

I have a lot more reasons for why I love to hunt but the list would go on all day. I wanna hear why everyone else loves to hunt.

Just a discussion topic.

I hunt for many reasons as well. Quickly thinking about it, I'd say one main reason is for the anticipation of what the hunt brings.

It may be the shooter deer I'm after. Maybe just a young buck or doe that will provide many delicious meals.. or possibly see 2 young fishers come stop under my stand and play around like little kids.

The anticipation of what I may experience out there is a big thrill for me. Don't need to shoot anything to have a good time.

iSnipe

I hunt because I love it. Just as the feeling of love is hard to explain, so is the love of hunting. I spend hours reading about deer, thinking about deer and discussing deer with my friends. I know I am never so alive as when I am in the woods. Yet it's a time of great peace. One of the few peaceful times I enjoy in an otherwise hectic life. While hunting I feel at one with nature. I realize that I am a predator, much as God originally created man to be. I do not glory in the death of an animal, but do realize that animals will die that I may live. I take tremendous pride in my skill and ability to bring home meat for the table, much of which I process myself. Yet I enjoy the challenge of hunting with a bow the most, where the odds favor the animal. I see many deer. I harvest only a few, but I have many memories. Memories of the deer and other wildlife I have seen and the experiences I have shared as I hunt with my friends and family. Finally, I hunt because I know it's necessary for proper wildlife management. I know that I and other hunters like me have provided the funds to pay for the great resurgence of wildlife in this country. I know that I am a conservationist and a major tool of game management. I am proud to be a sportsman! I am proud to be a hunter!

dude..its perty apparent to me you need to ask her on a date. she totally confronted you. so ask her to lunch or somethin and i bet $20 if ya date her fer a few weeks and ask if she wants to go shoot guns, she'd totally be down...huntin is next

if you added 5000 words to this it would sell...i like it

LOL I wrote that years ago and submitted it to a wisc outdoor mag

basser thats good input man, I hunt for all those reasons too.

halfbaked- shes not my kinda girl lol and I dont find her attractive.

I hunt to get away from people like her!

I hunt because I suck at golf and tennis. I was born a gun nut and found a perfectly practical thing to do with the guns I acquired.
Do I need more reasons ?

cause its beats hangin out in front of the drug store keepin people from hangin out there.

cause I have these cool camo clothes that don't go well in some of the higher end places I eat, I wear them hunting to get the most usage out of them.

cause part of my working day I spend chatting on hunting forums. If I didn't hunt I be lost and not understand a dang thing said.

cause my wife currently has a shortage of things to bitch about, hunting gives her a whole new sets of options.

cause it puts me in a place where step children cannot find me in order to beg for money.

cause I have about 30,000 acres of private land available to me, if I didn't hunt it would be such a waste and some other poor guy would be hunting there.

cause its nobodys dang business but mine. I don't ask why others ski, hike, scratch their butts in public, pick their nose or other things I don't do.

Hunting is a way to connect to our earliest heritage. When hunting I am lost within the framework of the event. Nothing else matters, noting else is within my focus. It is me, the forest, and the challenge of the hunt. I am primarily a meat hunter. What I harvest is the only red meat I eat. A truely spiritual experience for some of us, but we must recognize that there are many valid reasons held by others.

Wildbill51

www.wildramblings.com

i don't explain to none hunters why i hunt [waste of time] no win situation ..i hunt because i enjoy it ..ps. i also hunt with my camera ...

I hunt because I can. It is a way of life for me and most of my family.

Hunting is an instinct. It is part of human history that dates back many thousands of years. Anyone who eats meat, which Im sure includes your classmate, has no right to question the ethics of hunting.

Personally, I feel no need to advertise that I hunt. I dont wear hunting apparel, camo, or clothes with weapon/equipment logos, in public. I dont put hunting decals ,or even my clubs ID sticker on my truck. I do not talk about hunting, or display hunting photos at work. I do not even let my neighbors see me carrying gun cases to and from my car. Im not saying everyone else should hide that they hunt, but I just feel the negative vibes it tends to attract, outweighs any pride I get from displaying it.

Need say no more.:rock::rock:

So you plagiarized yourself? LOL! :D

iSnipe

simple answer.
we hunt because hunting is hardcoded in every human.
modern humanity has survived one Ice Age by inventing the flint and hunting.
some of us are 'active hunters' because the 'hunting' gene code is stronger in us than others.
thats what i tell my wife and it shuts her up.
simple logic.
:)

Please send me the recipe ASAP.:D

Nuff Said!
 

Basserman and comments already spoken I can add very little to it,I concur. I like you my fellow Hunters go being content just to be in the woods, but seeing all these amazing creatures is a blessing. I must admit that when I watched by Buck bleed out that was tuff being my first kill, I was not without compassion for this majestic animal. I also think it needful to manage the population for thier ultimate good. If people who ask such questions would think it through they would become hunters or at least understand why it must be done. Good Hunting!

Was she hottt?

thats the way you do it.
low profile.

Why attempt to be logical to an anti-hunter
 

Tell her you never had any proper training in shopping at a meat department of a supermarket, so you took up hunting.

And that your education never included causing havoc from a earthquake, so you majored in hunting.

I have zero interest in any sport other than hunting. Can't stand football and don't give a damn who won the world series or any basketball game. I used to be a pretty big NASCAR fan, but like Christmas, stupid humans have made it all about avertising and sales and it has little to do with what company builds the best car or which team sets it up and drives it the best anymore. I went to my first live race at the Kansas speedway and it was my last live race. It was such a miserable experience I can't even tell you how much I hated it. I could have seen, heard and enjoyed it so much more in the comfort of my living room and not had to be crowded, hot and staring at a jumbotron past 10,000 screaming idiots. Staying home would also have saved me several hundred dollars in tickets, travel, and food expenses, not to mention blood pressure medication and a weekend of regret that I didn't go hunting.
Anyway, after an insanely stressful and tortuous day like that, a short walk in the woods with my favorite rifle can make me less homicidal and nearly sane again, so that I can face questions like, Why do you hunt? without the strong urge to choke the life out of the person asking. After a while I forget everything save the beauty around me and I'm at peace with the world. A world that makes sense, where good sense can keep you warm, dry, comfortable and completely content. A natural being, in nature, away from artificial human stresses. Just me alone with God and his creatures. And some of them are pretty tasty too!

Elton John put it best.............."It's the circle of life".


It allows me to be "part" of nature...................nothing else like it !!!

I hunt for meat, if I get a trophy that is a bonus