Animal issues

It wasn't me!

bythewoods wrote: »

I like this. The way I see it, if you can come up with valid reasoning for this nature of things instead of just "I hunt for the lulz" then who is anyone to disagree?

I don't have any major moral issues against hunting at all, even fox hunting to an extent, even though I don't personally eat meat.

I actually think this all sounds great. Really quite interesting and enjoyable.

It is. It's eternally fascinating and thrilling. Anyone I've taken out has loved it. It's a unique attraction that's quite difficult to understand until you've seen it first-hand. It's when you've spent months observing herds, categorising them for culling, and you can improve the demographic by removing poor quality stags or bucks, switches (single pointed antlers, kill other stags in the rut due to the deformity, big priority) and can remove hinds or does and calves or fawns as the numbers are required. And when the work's done and the larder's full of organic, ethically sourced meat, you can lie out in some of the finest surroundings on earth and watch the deer, which is just fantastic. You can never learn it all, but you can try. Personally I'm entirely sure of the rightness of what I do. I don't enjoy killing and slaughter and I've never met a decent hunter who does. I kill everything as cleanly as possible, with a powerful rifle and well chosen, ethical shots. I've yet to wound anything and have to track it, fortunately enough. That satisfies my commitment to the humane destruction of what I take, and coupled with my reasons for doing it, I feel no guilt. Sadness at taking life, but not regret. It's a complicated feeling really.