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LWolf

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11. I live in a hunting community,
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 01:21 PM
Aug 2012

and spend a lot of time on public lands where hunters hunt.

I rarely find carcasses, and they are never headless. When I do, I usually assume it was a cougar or a pack of coyotes that left the carcass. Or maybe they just caught up with it; regardless, it's always picked clean. It doesn't go to waste.

Most of the hunters locally are about food, not trophies. I despise trophy hunting.

The biggest abundance of carcasses in this area are to be found on the road or roadside; deer and cars don't co-habitate well. I don't get upset with the cars, though; the deer blend in well, don't tend to be about if the lighting is good, and will leap in front of a car at the last minute with no apparent sense of danger.

I've never hit one, but one hit me last winter. I was cruising along and spotted a deer to my left, ready to cross the road. It hit my back bumper on its way by. No harm done to either of us.

Hunting critters... [View all] xtraxritical Aug 2012 OP
Some of us like to hunt and offer no apology for it. badtoworse Aug 2012 #1
I don't get it? xtraxritical Aug 2012 #2
They're hunting deer in Ohio and bear in Alberta. What's wrong with that? badtoworse Aug 2012 #3
What's to get? ohheckyeah Aug 2012 #14
Analysis: Angling, Hunting are big business MicaelS Aug 2012 #4
Because a fair number of people nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #5
Orange you luckey! xtraxritical Aug 2012 #6
I too hunt Equate Aug 2012 #7
My tool of choice is a 300 mm lens (as in a camera) nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #13
Hunting, gathering, and farming are wonderful circle of life activities. aikoaiko Aug 2012 #8
Hunting to eat is one thing, but I'm just sick to death of finding the carcasses of animals Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #9
+1000 Equate Aug 2012 #10
I live in a hunting community, LWolf Aug 2012 #11
I wish the prey could shoot back. That would make it at least coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #16
Not that I agree with you Equate Aug 2012 #18
LOL- Sharing with my wife who will probly want to post to coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #19
Agreed Equate Aug 2012 #20
Now that would be a sport. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #22
Tee-hee. I think you've coined a new word ("he-manliness"). Like you, I have no quarrel coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #23
I think factory farms are much, much worse... hunter Aug 2012 #12
Every time I think of trophy hunters I can't help but think of this song modem77 Aug 2012 #15
Paired with "Happiness is a Warm Gun" (one of my coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #17
Here is a hunting critter: MineralMan Aug 2012 #21
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