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Originally Posted by 4X4
I have a few friends that hunt, and it sounds like work. It's pretty businesslike with the staking out of the land, and then the pre-dawn arrival on hunting day/trip... A lot of laying in the snow, not moving. Never shoot your gun unless it's a sure shot (that still misses a lot of the time).
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Or are you friends with people that "go hunting" by going out to crown land and shooting a bunch of bottles off of tree stumps? Or do they play show and tell with their $5000 guns?
From what I know, hunting is a lot like fishing. Strategy, patience, skill. You don't just go running down a river and javelin fish with your fishing rod, and you don't go running around a field pegging off deer like a video game. So what fun are you pissed off about? The sitting in the snow part? The not moving at all, for hours on end? The getting up at 4am? Gutting it? Getting it back to the truck? If you even get anything, all season? You're obviously talking about the gun part, and that's the one thing that happens the least when people are hunting. Most hunters I know can count how many shots they actually take (usually less than 10 per year), so I'm not sure why you sandwiched that weird diss in the middle of your other point about meat not being necessary for human survival, but whatever.
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Yes I'm friends with guys that hunt, fill up their freezers with their max tags and then every second season have to throw away so much meat because nobody wants it and they don't want to eat their old meat when they've killed new meat.
Like I said I'm not mad if they'd just admit it's a sport to them and they don't do it for just the meat. They enjoy hunting and there's nothing wrong with that but they can at least be honest about why they hunt. It's fun and it's a sport and they just so happen to get some meat as well which is a nice bonus.
And I added the part about how we don't need meat to survive specifically to peter12's post I was replying to which said "a life is given for a life". That's not true at all.
