dead

[azpackhorse]

[Will K]

Looks like you are trying to strangle that cow. Congrat's.

[azpackhorse]

evidently seeing a dead cow elk winched in a tree bothers some people..........it was dead people

[CouesWhitetail]

I don't get it???

[azpackhorse]

me neither, it's ok to blow their hearts out with a bullet but not winch them in a tree to load them? crazy, I aint ashamed of anything I do associated with hunting and if someone doesn't like it then %$#* them. I removed it out of respect for the site.

[AZP&Y]

That was Awesome! My buddy has a jeep and needed to see that!

 

Great use of the winch!

 

Please re-post!!!!!

 

 

Azp&y

[CouesWhitetail]

I never saw it, but I am assuming you got some PMs asking you to remove it? It does make some sense to be sensitive to how we show the animals on a website.

[billrquimby]

I don't get it???

 

Nor do I. Our neighbors in Greer are a couple who happen to be medical doctors. He has some great war stories about the many different ways people are injured or killed that he saw during his internship in one of Baltimore's trauma centers, and so I was shocked when he said he and his wife (an infectious disease specialist) had suffered nightmares after merely driving past a hunter's camp near the Black River and seeing a black bear hanging from a tree.

 

He also told about taking a surgeon friend fishing at Big Lake. It seems his friend had asked him to clean his fish because the guy was too squeamish to do it.

 

Go figure. I could not purposely cut open another human, nor could I treat people with horrible knife and gunshot wounds without feeling their pain. Compared to that, seeing an elk or bear hanging from a tree should be nothing, but that obviously isn't so for people who have no experience with hunting or hunters.

 

Bill Quimby

[DUG]

I'm that way too Bill, I can't look at pictures of dead guys, let alone treat a wounded guy. Especially ones partially eaten by bears......

[stanley]

Suppose I missed the picture/post too....... My opinion is though, that there is nothing wrong with showing a hanging animal.

 

Makes me think of a similar thing though; The wording we all use when we've been succesful on a hunt? I always say that I (or my kids) 'killed' an animial. Some folks choose the word 'harvest'. Seems to me like dead is dead. Harvesting to me, seems to water it down a bit. When I shoot something, assuming I do it right, that animal is DEAD. To me, 'harvesting' is for crops, not game animals.

 

Not that I have a big problem with those who use the word 'harvest'', it's just that I choose the word 'kill'. To each their own, I suppose.

 

Sorry Brian, I didn't mean to hi-jack the thread. It just made me think of this topic.....

 

S.

 

[couesobsession]

IMO just post it.

[azmetalman]

Personally I think using the word harvest is just pandering to PETA and those who would stop us from KILLING our dinner.

[couesobsession]

What he said! Harvesting is for vegetables! Killing is for animals!

[bonecollector]

Congrats on your KILL. Post the pic.

[billrquimby]

I saw the photo in question before it was pulled, and I thought nothing about it.

 

It was a cow elk hung by its neck from a cable that ran over a tree limb to a Jeep's winch. I'd done the same thing several times when I had a Jeep with a winch years ago. I even published a photo of a spike bull hanging from a tree on one of my outdoor pages in the Tucson Citizen years ago without getting a single nasty letter.

 

The photo that launched this thread did not show blood or the elk's tongue hanging out. What the fuss is all about in this hunting forum is beyond me.

 

Incidentally, I am among those who hate the word "harvest" when applied to hunting big game, but then my newspaper training also makes me cringe when I hear anyone say someone "passed" or "passed away" or use any other euphemism for "died."

 

Bill Quimby