Evil Google Images...

Moogie4's picture
Don't you just hate it when you're trying to find good reference pics on Google Images...

And you keep coming across those evil, smug-looking redneck "hunters" sitting over their sad-looking "prize".

Sickens me.
Verycrazygirl's picture

Yep.

Yep.

GingerNut's picture

God... I'll admit that I

God...

I'll admit that I don't mind people who hunt for food and only food. But people who hunt for the sake of antlers or hooves? People who just take those things and leave the body to rot?

They're disgusting.
arrowdoe's picture

Quote:I'll admit that I don't

Quote:
I'll admit that I don't mind people who hunt for food and only food. But people who hunt for the sake of antlers or hooves? People who just take those things and leave the body to rot?


Even as a hunter myself, I must agree- though not all of us are 'evil'. ):
I've taken those kinds of pictures, but the elk I took last year was not killed for sport.
We only hunt when we need the meat.
For food and only for food.

No part of the elk is wasted- we bury the bones back into the ground when we've done our business.

I guess I'm a walking contradiction.
God knows I love these animals.
Halafax's picture

Where I live I would say that

Where I live I would say that 90% of the deer taken are used for food or sport responsibly. In my state there is an overpopulation of white-tailed deer so the state government allows for the shooting of as many deer as possible. This is necessary, unfortunately, because the deer no longer have natural predators to keep their numbers down so they would either starve or get hit by cars.

Although last winter someone came onto our property (which has no hunting/trespassing signs posted) and shot two yearling does and only took their hindquarters and dumped the rest of the carcass in the middle of the road. I was livid.

Whoa long comment...
TL;DR: I am okay with hunting as long as the animal isn't wasted.
AlisonRobin's picture

I don't have an issue with

I don't have an issue with people who hunt, I just have issues with rednecks and their ilk.
I know plenty of decent hunters and I will readily admit that venison is absolutely delicious.
quadraptor's picture

For me it depends on the

For me it depends on the reason to hunt. If someone is going to hunt for food, and is respectful to the animals they kill, I'm totally fine with it. But generally the case is that they want to go kill something to prove their manliness. That I cannot stand, it makes me sick that I am a human sometimes.



Maybe hunters should be the hunted?
ClosetMonkey's picture

I really dislike hunting. And

I really dislike hunting. And the way some people act about it when they do hunt... it's sickening.

But it's totally understandable if it's hunting for food or if there's overpopulation.
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Moogie4's picture

Aye, it's really just the

Aye, it's really just the trophy hunters that I find abbhorant. Hunting for food and resources is natural, of course. I just hate those photos of the hunter standing in front of a bloody carcass, holding its head up by the horns, as if to say "HEY GUIZ! LOOK'IT HOW MUCH I'SE OVERCOMPENSATIN' FOR MEH TINY PEENAS!" Sticking out tongue

I personally see nothing

I personally see nothing wrong with taking pride in your kill. A hunter should take pride. To not take pride in a hunted animal not only tells you did something wrong but it also disrespects the animal.
However, there is a difference between a true hunter and a disrespectful twit. Any hunter I have ever met had great respect for the animals they killed. They use every part they can of the animal. From the trophy head/antlers and the pelt to the meat and even use the bones or sell them to others to use for carving and other such things. If they can not eat all the meat themselves they give it to family and friends to enjoy the meat. (I rather love venison and is one of my favorite meats.)
A true hunter not only takes pride in their kill (whether taking a glory picture of the day the animal is taken or mounting the antlers on their wall) but they also respect the animal. They don’t go around laughing about how “this stupid deer just asked to be shot” like I‘ve heard some scum announce.

A true hunter does not take pleasure in the animal’s pain. They strive to make a “clean kill” where the animal dies instantly or shortly after shot. I can not tell you the times I have known hunters to spend days searching for a deer they wounded but lost in the woods. Even getting their other hunting buddies to help do a sweep, search for the animal. Some of them emotionally distraught that they had not done a clean kill because they know the animal could suffer.

Some hunters even give a prayer of thanks to the animal once the deed is done.

I feel just as strongly as any of you about the abuse or disrespect of animals. To see a trophy animal that was once healthy sitting there rotting away because some a--hat only wanted their antlers fills me with rage.

However, just because someone has a picture of them being proud of a deer they had killed does not mean they disrespect that animal. In fact, quite a few hunters would be hurt that people would think that of them. Some hunters are in animal rights groups to help protect the forests and with it the deer they love to watch and hunt.
I have known more animal loving hunters who would give someone a black eye for wasting a kill then I have known scum bag hunters who would leave an animal to rot.

I would not be surprised if there a several "hunters" playing this game right now for their love of deer.
arrowdoe's picture

I am one of these hunters who

I am one of these hunters who plays for the love of the deer. ^ (:

My dad is a hunter, and we

My dad is a hunter, and we eat alot of roe-deer in my family. For both fancy christmas dinners and just simply some on the breakfast sandwich. And it is really delicious, the best meat I've ever tasted. On the livingroom-walls hangs beautiful skulls of bucks, each with a different theme, background, they are artworks. I have a favorite, the skull is painted gold and is attached on a red-painted plank, with one bullet shell and two feathers.

Hunting is good for the forest life. It keeps it stabilized and healthy. No one wants sickness to spread around among the animals, and no one wants to get their crops eaten up, no one wants to drive them over once a week while on the way to work. Hunters truly take care of the nature. Without them, all injured animals who've been hit by cars would suffer to death, all diseases would spread fast and weaken the tribe, there would be too many animals squeezed together in any certain area.

The pictures are simply trofés. (sp?) (Google is a powerful search-engine, and therefore all these pictures from all these magazines, communities, organizations and personal blogs will be found) I see them everyday, and I'm such an animal-lover that I can see past that one individual who happened to be shot that day, I see the whealth of the whole tribe. I may shed a little tear when I see the newly shot deer, but after, at the dinner table it's gone. That deer gave me food, and to cherish it, we put up it's skeleton as a treasure. As long as there are deer to shoot, it means the tribe is healthy. It's good.

(I didn't meant to sound harsch by the way, I just had to speak out clearly... Sorry! ♥)