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Permalink Reply by allanm on September 29, 2016 at 13:17

It is as they say Charles, many people just don't understand. I know a former "zookeeper" who like me now works in IT. She totally understands. even having come from the camp of caging animals in zoos for people to look at, that conservation requires proper management, which means herd control according to habitat and food sources.

Others don't get it and simply think of what we do as barbaric since there is no need to hunt, we can just go to a store and buy a generic package of meat and never have any clue what mass production environments that chicken, cow, pig etc was raised in, or how they were treated in farming, delivery to slaughterhouse and meat processing. More people should see documentary movies like Fast Food Nation, or read the book of the same title, and similar. Then they would see just how a slaughter house operates and how much meat we would consider unhealthy is within standards, and the standards of hygiene. If they then saw a typical hunter who has ethics, compared with a poacher, they might understand why we are likely more humane in our kills.

The way I explain it to people is I want a clean kill with every shot if at all possible, and I have a responsibility to practice to try to ensure that. For two reasons - to reduce suffering as far as possible, but also because I really don't want to have to track any animal if I can avoid it. The more I have to track, the more the animal is suffering, and the more I have to work to retrieve it with the possibility of losing the trail and wasting that life. That's part of why I wanted to use everything possible from my last season, including learning to tan hides.

Our bow season starts on Saturday, then black powder the first Saturday in November for 2 weeks, followed by modern rifle.

FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on September 29, 2016 at 15:43

If people who are anti hunting would go see how a slaughter house operates, they might change their opinion.  After all they don't call them SLAUGHTER houses for nothing.  In my opinion the only difference between someone who buys their meat at the store and a hunter is that the first one hires his killing done and the hunter does it himself.

Our bow season starts Oct. 15 and runs through Feb.10.  The limit is a buck and a doe a day.  We have a special muzzleloader season from Nov. 14 to Nov. 18.  For this season the limit is also a buck and a doe a day.  Our regular gun season opens Nov. 19 and runs to Feb. 10.  The limit for this whole season is a buck a day.  For 20 days during this season the daily limit also includes a doe.  On one of the non doe days during the regular gun season, you could kill a buck with a gun and a doe with a bow.  We do have a three buck combined season limit.