Have to vent

[Ski]

This post gets my blood boiling as well. I agree 100% with BSK, this is all about respect....for the deer, the hunt, and yourself. I love hunting but I'll straight up tell you I don't enjoy killing. Yes, it's necessary and I do it. But when I kill a deer I do my part to ensure that it dies as quickly and humanely as possible.

Same here. Killing has never given me joy. It's the only part of hunting i don't enjoy. Never have. I never could understand the guys who shoot groundhogs and crows for fun. To me killing is a necessary part of being a predatory carnivore, and that's all. The only good feelings I get from a kill is the relief when it's quick and sufferless. I can enjoy the heck out of the hunt and feel sense of accomplishment & gratitude when getting it done, while simultaneously feeling solace or even melancholy about the death. Both things are true.

 

[Crow Terminator]

I never could understand the guys who shoot groundhogs and crows for fun.

Groundhogs are good to eat. Crows are a pest. Same category as a mouse or coyote to me. Kill them all and can even get creative doing it.I detest a crow...anybody who relies on a garden will agree. Flapping pie pans and scarecrows never worked for me. Crows used my dang scarecrow as a lookout perch. But a good ole Johnny Stewart crow tape and shotguns does a good job.

 

[TNTreeman]

Same here. Killing has never given me joy. It's the only part of hunting i don't enjoy. Never have. I never could understand the guys who shoot groundhogs and crows for fun. To me killing is a necessary part of being a predatory carnivore, and that's all. The only good feelings I get from a kill is the relief when it's quick and sufferless. I can enjoy the heck out of the hunt and feel sense of accomplishment & gratitude when getting it done, while simultaneously feeling solace or even melancholy about the death. Both things are true.

Exactly how I feel. I don't enjoy killing. Unless I'm eating you or your eating my chickens I pretty much leave you alone .

 

[Ski]

Groundhogs are good to eat. Crows are a pest. Same category as a mouse or coyote to me. Kill them all and can even get creative doing it.I detest a crow...anybody who relies on a garden will agree. Flapping pie pans and scarecrows never worked for me. Crows used my dang scarecrow as a lookout perch. But a good ole Johnny Stewart crow tape and shotguns does a good job.

Killing a crow that's destroying your property, or killing a groundhog to eat are both acceptable and reasonable, IMO. What I can't relate with is doing it for fun just to have a live target.