posted Mon, 08/10/2026 - 06:24
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Any Hunters here?
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Just curious if anyone here hunts. Or am I the only one from September to January who lives in the woods when I’m not working or hitting the gym?
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Yup! Bird hunter and eat everything i shoot. There's recird sized big game here but I'm just too lazy to drag and butcher. The local places you can buy butchered beef...elk..bison...deer...hog...etc etc. Small game is just easier imo.
Lived a better life than any farm animal and died faster and more humanely than any farm raised chicken, cow, or pig. Plus I don’t really like fatty cuts of meat so deer and elk are perfect for my diet. Sadly I can’t kill enough per season to make it my sole meat source…
You Tight Bastard!
We had to stop eating pork in my house after my wife watched some video of industrial scale farm raised pigs for slaughter. Industrial farming, while necessary to feed the population, is what is truly evil to animals.
Best protein source there is! Our state basically gives us unlimited doe tags, and a season from Sept to April.
April?! Goddamn. I’d be able to get my necessary amount with that kind of window. I just grind the entire thing. Mostly plain ground and about 1/4 as breakfast sausage. Deer sausage, even with fat added, is still leaner than that shitty jimmy dean at the store. My wife loves sausage, egg, cheese biscuits in the morning with that breakfast sausage
I typically make sausage in 50 lb batches. I do smoked sausage, summer sausage, and breakfast sausage. But we do a lot of primal cuts. I fill the freezer before I decide on sausage and jerky.
If you could just feel the jealousy through the internet… I used to do the primals but had kids and got lazy. Much easier to just slap tubes of ground on the pan and mix it with rice for all my personal meals. Or the occasional chili. There’s a maple pumpkin chili my wife loves that I make every fall. Sounds off putting but it’s delicious
No, I don't 'hunt' defenceless animals with a telescopic sight and feel happiness from sticking a bullet in them.
Guns are illegal in the uk. So how would you even hunt?
I’m a bowhunter.
Still - Killing an animal who is only trying to eat and live makes you feel good. Sick
I hunt for meat. I’m sorry if that offends you. I choose to organic meat from the land where I live instead of buying my meat from the grocery store. I could spend hours talking to you about conservation, habitat, endangered species, disease management, and on and on, but as soon as you commented I knew that it was pointless. It’s all good. Good day sir.
So you put an arrow through lets say a Deer, you go over to it because it hasn't died instantly and its there laid on its side bleeding out and taking its last dying breaths wondering what its done wrong whilst looking at you - how does that not make you feel insanely sad or guilty about what you have just done??
I hope you're vegan, and a vegetarian. Youre a human. You have dominion over animals. Since youre so angry at him hunting, its safe to say you dont eat meat right? Because according to you, that would be mean@ or eggs? Or milk? Because that's mean too. I hope you also dont eat lettuce. Those poor plants hard work at photosynthesis just to be ripped off the ground and eaten! So sad! Lmfao grow up. Its an animal. Without hunters they would be overpopulated
Who said it doesn’t? But I also recognize that the state I live in is massively overpopulated with deer. Without culling the herd, deer would starve to death, disease would rise. Where I live you typically can’t drive more than a mile or two without seeing a dead deer on the side of the road from being hit by a car. But I must ask you, why keep this back and forth going? Are you vegan? Do you own a grocery store? Do you eat beef or chicken? Just wondering what your angle is here.
You think a deer wonders what it did wrong?
No, but I'm pretty sure it feels pretty bloody bad when its got an arrow stuck through its lung and is steadily suffocating to death. People who can do this and not feel sad about the suffering animal in front of them have No Soul whatsoever. I will never understand how anyone can get their kicks out of this sick shit.
Just out of curiosity. Do you think factory farms and the way animals are raised stuck in tiny cramped areas with little to no movement their whole life while being force fed stuff that is super unhealthy for them. To eventually be hauled to a processing plant, shot in the head with a bolt gun, then hung up, their necks slit, and shocked with electricity to be drained of all blood and relax the muscles, etc... Do you think that is all more humane and better for the animal than harvesting one that has lived a free and healthy life? Without hunting and conservation efforts, animals such as deer tend to become way overpopulated which leads to inbreeding and all kinds of genetic diseases, the herd becomes way more vulnerable to viruses, etc... A couple hundred years ago everyone had to harvest and process their own meat. I'm not asking this to be a smart ass, etc... Just legitimately trying to understand your perspective. We all come from different walks of life and from my side, it feels as if it is more humane and respectful of the animal to harvest one yourself with a well placed shot. Where you are aware of the weight of taking a life and what that means towards feeding your family. In comparison to being so disconnected you think meat just magically appears in packages in the store without animals being hurt. "I used that example because I seen a woman upset with hunters in a video because they could have went to the store and bought the meat where it was made instead of harvesting a animal for it."
No decent person celebrates the death. That is a somber moment not to be confused with the "kill".
I'm sure you've fished. Are you gleeful for its death? Or happy for the catch that will feed you and your family?
Most hunters (at lease the ones I know) do feel remorse and sadness. But there is also the other side of it that I get to feed my family.
I know what they’re thinking when they get hit by a car and run off “Fuckin car came out of nowhere!”
Yeah, something I'd say.
Not this year, the tranny in my white panel van died so I need to get a replacement first.
Tranny in your panel van died? I’d bury that tranny before you find a new one. A dead tranny might be a little sus.
Whitetail yearly (bow only), I have an elk tag but not sure if ill be able to use it this season, and doing a duck hunt in Nov.
I wouldn’t be able to take ducks over an elk. But I’m not a big duck guy.
The 2 are not related hahahaha I don’t think I’ll be able to get off to go hunt elk… that’s 10 day process, i got adult responsibilities at home… it’s High School hockey season
Gotcha. As a former travel hockey/high school hockey parent and coach, I can relate. Thankfully my kids aged out so I got my hunting time back.
Avid hunter and fisherman here. Got a velvet hunt coming up last weekend of this month.
Nice! I’m headed to Maine for a week at the end of the month for a Black Bear hunt.