thinking its "funny" to kill a deer

[AverageJoe]

Wow... I laugh all the time when dove hunting with my boys and friends when something funny happens with a shot. Laughed a lot growing up with my brother hunting prairie dogs and squirrels up in WA. I have even laughed at something funny that happened on big game hunts. If it's funny, laugh at it. I had no idea I was such a sociopath or idiot - thanks for enlightening me.

 

I do not feel sadness when I kill an animal I am hunting, I feel proud to be a part of my families traditions, honored to be sharing the outdoors and those hunting experiences with the people I love, satisfaction sometimes of a long planned and scouted hunt that ended with meat in the freezer - I won't apologize for enjoying every second of it.

 

If you are so self important that you are going to openly criticize fellow hunters because they can laugh at funny things that happen, you would be doing all sportsmen a favor by keeping your bashing to your commiserating buddies. You are the hunters that the anti crowd love to feature on their cover pages... "Even this lifelong hunter knows deep down that what they are doing is wrong."

 

Lighten up - I'll let you know when I need you to tell me how I should feel. Sheesh!

 

yes you are a sociopath. At least you have identified yourself to the rest of us now. Have fun beating your dog

[naturebob]

Thats what drives Me nuts on 80% of the hunting shows on tv. Grown men in their 40's and 50's Jumping up and down and laughing their asz off after killing or wounding an animal.. Then theres the ones that yell great shot, and the animal goes running off.. I allways thought a great shot was when they drop in their tracks or a few steps and die right away. To each his own............BOB!

[10Turkeys]

I was Duck hunting a few years ago and one of the guys downed one and let out a primal scream, I was kinda embarrassed. Kinda like watching a football game and one guy dances around like its the first time he's ever been in the end zone and another guy will just hand the ball to the ref. I wanted to ask the guy if he had ever killed anything before but I just kept quiet.

[bowsniper]

I took my boys to a youth trapping clinic a few years ago. One morning there was a bobcat in a trap. One of the instructors choked the bobcat out with with a choke stick. As the animal struggled and flailed around, most of the kids in the clinic started laughing. I was very proud that my boys did not find it funny, and looked upon the laughing kids with disgust and anger.

 

My grandfather hunted deer in Colorado during the depression (1930's) to feed his family. No deer, no eat. He would cry every time he shot one.

 

Mark

[firstcoueswas110]

Wow... I laugh all the time when dove hunting with my boys and friends when something funny happens with a shot. Laughed a lot growing up with my brother hunting prairie dogs and squirrels up in WA. I have even laughed at something funny that happened on big game hunts. If it's funny, laugh at it. I had no idea I was such a sociopath or idiot - thanks for enlightening me.

 

I do not feel sadness when I kill an animal I am hunting, I feel proud to be a part of my families traditions, honored to be sharing the outdoors and those hunting experiences with the people I love, satisfaction sometimes of a long planned and scouted hunt that ended with meat in the freezer - I won't apologize for enjoying every second of it.

 

If you are so self important that you are going to openly criticize fellow hunters because they can laugh at funny things that happen, you would be doing all sportsmen a favor by keeping your bashing to your commiserating buddies. You are the hunters that the anti crowd love to feature on their cover pages... "Even this lifelong hunter knows deep down that what they are doing is wrong."

 

Lighten up - I'll let you know when I need you to tell me how I should feel. Sheesh!

self important?

 

when i read this, i realize how much different all our perceptions of reality are.

[AZMThunter]

 

Wow... I laugh all the time when dove hunting with my boys and friends when something funny happens with a shot. Laughed a lot growing up with my brother hunting prairie dogs and squirrels up in WA. I have even laughed at something funny that happened on big game hunts. If it's funny, laugh at it. I had no idea I was such a sociopath or idiot - thanks for enlightening me.

 

I do not feel sadness when I kill an animal I am hunting, I feel proud to be a part of my families traditions, honored to be sharing the outdoors and those hunting experiences with the people I love, satisfaction sometimes of a long planned and scouted hunt that ended with meat in the freezer - I won't apologize for enjoying every second of it.

 

If you are so self important that you are going to openly criticize fellow hunters because they can laugh at funny things that happen, you would be doing all sportsmen a favor by keeping your bashing to your commiserating buddies. You are the hunters that the anti crowd love to feature on their cover pages... "Even this lifelong hunter knows deep down that what they are doing is wrong."

 

Lighten up - I'll let you know when I need you to tell me how I should feel. Sheesh!

self important?

 

when i read this, i realize how much different all our perceptions of reality are.

 

Yes... Self important. As in - if you think that your feelings and opinions should be everyone's feelings and opinions, you are self important.

 

And by the way, one of the lines you highlighted in bold, "I do not feel sadness when I kill an animal I am hunting," would appear to have been highlighted as some type of indictment about my feelings toward animals. Note the "...animal I am hunting" portion of the quote. I have felt sadness when I hit a rabbit with my truck. I felt absolutely distraught when Hawken, my yellow lab, died last summer at 14. Felt anger and sadness toward an abused and neglected horse I saved in my early twenties. But no, I don't feel sadness when I hunt. If it made me sad, I would stop doing it.

[AZLance]

Wow...some really self righteous posts here.

 

If I cant have fun when I hunt I don't want to hunt anymore!

 

I have been involved in a lot of kills both as a guide, a friend helping and with family, and I can assure you, I have never once seen any one who felt any remorse, sorrow, or regret for killing the animal. Usually the kill shot is followed by high fives, a hoot, a holler, singing, laughter, and sometimes grown men hugging. But never did I see any of the hunters lower their head in a moment of silence, do the sigh of the cross, say a short prayer for the deer's soul or build a small memorial for the deer.

 

And I'm not afraid to say it, I don't hunt for the meat! I live in the real world where every corner super market carries meat, and it is affordable. So if I'm hungry I go to the store or the restaurant. Most of my game meat is given away to others. I hunt to Kill. It is the ultimate challenge to outsmart a creature that was made to elude predators. I, in fact, am the ultimate predator when I am out there.

 

And while hunting, usually I am telling jokes or reminiscing about past hunts and laughing and having a good time. Laughing at a kill is NOT offensive to me it just a natural release of energy after the hard work it took to get the kill shot. I have shot ducks that crashed into a tree and it was funny, and I laughed! I have shot a Javalina that did a back flip after impact, and it was hilarious. And the best was a Elk that ran straight into a tree after being hit. All laughable moments and times that will be remembered for a long time.

 

If it makes you sad, maybe its time to take up golf...

[10Turkeys]

Maybe I'm a little behind the times, only thing that I hunt with that is battery operated is a GPS, but in my pack is a Silva compass that I use more than the GPS, if I want to go somewhere it is with boot leather. Haven't shot anything past 400 yards. Been hunting since about as early as I can remember, truth be told maybe I was a little blood thirsty when I was 13-14, but now that I'm much older if I have to kill something that's when I will take up golf.

[AverageJoe]

Wow...some really self righteous posts here.

 

If I cant have fun when I hunt I don't want to hunt anymore!

 

I have been involved in a lot of kills both as a guide, a friend helping and with family, and I can assure you, I have never once seen any one who felt any remorse, sorrow, or regret for killing the animal. Usually the kill shot is followed by high fives, a hoot, a holler, singing, laughter, and sometimes grown men hugging. But never did I see any of the hunters lower their head in a moment of silence, do the sigh of the cross, say a short prayer for the deer's soul or build a small memorial for the deer.

 

And I'm not afraid to say it, I don't hunt for the meat! I live in the real world where every corner super market carries meat, and it is affordable. So if I'm hungry I go to the store or the restaurant. Most of my game meat is given away to others. I hunt to Kill. It is the ultimate challenge to outsmart a creature that was made to elude predators. I, in fact, am the ultimate predator when I am out there.

 

And while hunting, usually I am telling jokes or reminiscing about past hunts and laughing and having a good time. Laughing at a kill is NOT offensive to me it just a natural release of energy after the hard work it took to get the kill shot. I have shot ducks that crashed into a tree and it was funny, and I laughed! I have shot a Javalina that did a back flip after impact, and it was hilarious. And the best was a Elk that ran straight into a tree after being hit. All laughable moments and times that will be remembered for a long time.

 

If it makes you sad, maybe its time to take up golf...

Everyone already knows you are a disturbed individual..lol. No surprise there

[ShutYourLib]

Seems that there are a lot of people with two personalities, their real one, and the alternate persona that they have online.

 

One of my favorites is this guy, on a different forum, bragging about how hard he hunted. Always bashing road hunters and telling everyone how far into the woods he goes. Well, we connected to do some scouting, and upon getting to his house, he was so obese that he could hardly get into the truck. He was about to die after we walked about 300 yards to set up glass.

 

As I alluded to earlier, many have shot a coyote or snake and left them, and in the simplest example, you would probably kill that coon ransacking your garbage can out of pure anger.

 

The moral police are out in full force, and they are everywhere. It seems it is usually to push an agenda, buy a vote, or just to get people to like them, but it's getting ridiculous - we shouldn't play their game too! Heck, people get in more trouble nowadays for kicking a dog than they do for kicking a person.

 

Most of us would probably spend less money buying a cow to slaughter than we do on an elk hunt - it's not about the meat. If it is only about the meat for you, then please stop putting in for bull elk and go after the better tasting cows.

 

I'm with AZLance on this, after all of the hard work, money, and time spent pays off with a kill, then I think that there is something wrong with the person that doesn't express some excitement, doesn't shout joyfully, or jump up and down!!

[CouesHunterAZ]

I am a very happy person when I hunt, I am one of those people who can't live without laughing every couple of minutes. Whenever we shoot something there are immediate cheers and celebration, even if it is a ground squirrel. This is just because all the work we have put in has paid off and it is almost a reward for everything we have done. But I would NEVER laugh about killing an animal or it suffering, some of you might get angered at me for displaying this opinion and go ahead. If I shot an animal and it "ran straight into a tree after being hit" then there would be celebration from a successful shot, but myself and all the hunters I am with have a wrench in our stomach feeling remorse for the animal and pray it has a quick death. If you laugh at an animal for its behaviors when it is distraught and in pain I think there is seriously something wrong with you.

[trphyhntr]

I think that there is something wrong with the person that doesn't express some excitement, doesn't shout joyfully, or jump up and down!!

I didn't read anyone say anything wrong about showing excitement, but if you're initial reaction is "lol" after you shoot an animal. you're a different person than me. AZlance, you really don't feel anything when you have to walk up and finish off a wounded animal? You guys are cold as ice.

[AZLance]

 

I think that there is something wrong with the person that doesn't express some excitement, doesn't shout joyfully, or jump up and down!!

I didn't read anyone say anything wrong about showing excitement, but if you're initial reaction is "lol" after you shoot an animal. you're a different person than me. AZlance, you really don't feel anything when you have to walk up and finish off a wounded animal? You guys are cold as ice.

Yes I do feel something...it's called recoil!

[buckmaster21]

 

 

I think that there is something wrong with the person that doesn't express some excitement, doesn't shout joyfully, or jump up and down!!

I didn't read anyone say anything wrong about showing excitement, but if you're initial reaction is "lol" after you shoot an animal. you're a different person than me. AZlance, you really don't feel anything when you have to walk up and finish off a wounded animal? You guys are cold as ice.

Yes I do feel something...it's called recoil!

[buckmaster21]

That was a good one I need that