Pro-hunting: It's ethical when done right

The Exotic Wildlife Association's Charly Seale says his organization has an ethics code for hunting. The hunts are not "canned" and it's a "fair chase" -- the animal can detect and elude the hunter.

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[Mrpielover66]

This guy isnt saying that you have to like, want to pet the animal, he's saying that to be a true ethical hunter you have to respect it first. Knowing what its giving us (food) now you can hate on me all you want, but its respect that this guy is talking about.

[nakiommi]

"It's because we DO love them that we can do that. We can hunt them. I don't hunt and murder the animals that I love, or any other living being.

[jjw2795]

@walk4trot2canter3 Why would someone feed animals right AFTER the season ended? its because we want them to survive. I feed pheasants every year corn and grain, but wait until after the season is over so that they can't be shot while eating. when the next season comes, We only manage to shoot a few of the birds, we never wipe them out. if you don't hunt, you wouldn't understand how hunters actually think and feel.  So until you start hunting you have no say in the matter.

[walk4trot2canter3]

When you provide wildlife with generous amounts of bait feed, they will be numerous and big and healthy and folks who enjoy shooting animals, watching them, die, cutting them up, eating them, and decorating their homes with them can find all sorts of justification for how much they love these animals. Yeah, we know.

[mobiussquadron]

@65DegN Ahh, In the woods around here you rarely get a sight of any animal at ranges of more than 50 to 75 feet, which I know from experience is well within their sensory range. I suppose my view on hunting is primarily affected by that, so I cannot speak either way for areas where longer shots are common.

[65DegN]

@mobiussquadron, I am not against hunting as I am a long time bowhunter. But I do believe that with a more primitive bow like a recurve or longbow, the hunter has to be well within the animals sensory range where the smallest sound or scent carried on a stray wind will alert a wary animal. Typically this distance is well within what I call 'wolf distance' the distance that a predator will begin a stalk on it's pray.

[fatdaddy1996]

I kill it because I love it. Yeah, I said that about carrots. Then I ate them.

[jwallbanger]

@stevethebowhunter well, i grew up around hunters in idaho. my experience was that the majority were bad apples. the exception to the rule was the ones who respected the land and killed primarily for the meat.

mostly i saw beer cans, plastic and tp being left all over the woods, neon ribbon left on trees, people shooting anything that moves from car windows and pick up beds, poaching elk to bait bears - just bloodthirsty rednecks having stupid fun and leaving a mess.

[GrandMasterJuan]

go hunt puppies

[mobiussquadron]

@65DegN This is possibly the best argument against hunting that I have seen (I am talking about true hunting, not ranch "hunting"). I agree with you totally that this can be an issue, particularly in areas that are heavily hunted. That said, for every deer with "good genes" that is killed by a hunter, several deer with equally good genes get hit by vehicles.

Personally if I were to try to help deer, I would find a way to keep them off the roads.

A clean shot is also less painful than a truck ;)

[HarveyTheHunter]

@UrukEngineer the rifle isent telescopic. you clearly know nothing about shooting or hunting. go away