I've said this before:

If you go to a drive-thru and order a burger, or if you go to the grocery store and buy a package of hamburger meat, you are hunting by proxy. In other words you are paying for someone else to have done the work of hunting for you. This makes you a gatherer.

If you went out and shot a deer, skinned and dressed it out, and used the meat and any other parts you might find use for, that makes you a hunter. At least you honestly made use of that animal you took by your own hands.

If you then took that meat and fed your family or friends, or you chose to donate it to a food charity (like you can here in GA) that would also make you a provider.

I fail to see any problem there, even with the gatherer part if you are accepting honestly how you are really obtaining that food. A lot of anti's think food just falls out of the sky.

I'd rather have a sharp stick in the eye myself.......

You can't argue with an idiot. Stay out of a braying contest with a jackass, you can't win. Just do your own thing and leave them out of the equation.

I know what you mean. I'm tired of people givin me crap and then goin to McDonalds and ordering a burger. To cite from the article at the back of the magazine they should get sucked into the voice box and shown that the same thing happens so they need to put a sock in it and stop being hippocrites.

Like Bill Heavey said next time they go to Mcdonald's they should be automatically sucked through the wind and be shown how a living, breathing thing is turned into a burger in a paper bag.

Ask them what they think about wind energy. Then you can tell them how many birds are killed from hitting them.

Ask them if they like the fact that they raised the price of corn so that they can use ethanol in their vehicles. (It really take more fossil fuels to produce ethanol than it would save from gasoline)

Ask them what they would do if they had a squirrel problem in their house.

Would they slap a mosquito digging into them?

Ask them how they feel about there being so many snow geese that they are literally dropping out of the sky because there isn't enough food for them. Is a quick shot more cruel than starving to death?

Ready for the Tide/Tigers game this weekend?

Hey, looks like the Crimson Tide pulled it out in the 4th Quarter.

they should go die in a freaking hole.

I can't remember who it was, but one celebrity, after someone dumped red paint on her fur, said she would just have to replace it with another fur.

I think these people still haven't figured out or accepted that, in the end, all living things are either food or fertilizer. You, me, them, plants, insects, animals ... everything that grows dies and then brings life.

Definately. I garuntee most of them haven't looked at the cold hard facts on how our hunting results in wildlife management on the highest level when done right, and that most of the money used to preserve populations and their habitats comes from lisence fees, stamps, etc.

Now, I'm all for hunting and fishing, but there is some limits.

I don't drive deer

Kill within reason, don't go out and kill 30 squirrels when you can only eat 3 in a month.

Make ethical kills, don't kill a deer with a bow past what you can shoot comfortably. Your taking an animals life. Respect it, and do it cleanly and fast.

I love hunting and fishing, but go easy on the game. Respect it.

Well this is how I feel. And frankly this bull malarky pisses me off. Hunters were the first damn conservationist. We have kept the wildlife ballance in check for many years and yes we have made many mistakes on the way but we have improved on them drimaticaly. With the advancement, breeding techniques and help from all you hunters there we have turened hunting around and are making it better for all. If the privlage of hunting ceased to exist then how the hell would the population be controlled you tree hugging hippies. Disease would start,abnormalities would grow out of proportion and we would begin to suffer. Did they ever think that there are still people out there that still relies on hunting and fishing to feed thier families. That they cant just go out to a fancy resturant every night and devour a 200 dollar meal. I say to you activist mind your own damn buisness because your walking on the fighting side of this good ole country boy!!!!!!

I totally agree shermanator. It is the exact thing im saying.