Great article.
Replies to: Great article.
Would've been a better article if he went back & shot, tracked, dispatched and field dressed a deer.
There is nothing like it.
I don't say that as someone who loves doing it. I don't. To me, it is a chore, not a sport. I don't get why people do it who don't have to do it. I love buying meat at the grocery store...even though I know hunting is far more humane a process of harvesting meat. I also like buying beer at the store instead of brewing it.
Everyone who eats meat should do it at least once, though, at a minimum. It is a very different experience. It is nothing like winning a football game, or acing a test. And, I'm sorry, fishing doesn't compare to taking another mammal in a hunt. There is nothing else like it. I would have been interested in his reaction. Can't believe he wrote the article without doing that. Makes me think maybe he chickened out.
I didn't get the sense that he's done with this pursuit.
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This is true.
Last time I did so I was a senior in college with one of my roommates. It was so fookin cold that there was steam coming out of the deer and the gloves weren’t cutting it. We both put our hands inside of it for a bit to warm them to finish the job. Had to then drag the animal at least a mile.
I do eat venison but it’s not my fave. Usually eat it as jerky. The butcher in this guy’s small town though knew how to slice it real thin so we ended up being able to make some banging philly cheese steaks. The good old days.
Now just occasionally bird hunt in the fall and spring gobbler.
Backstraps and loins are delicious.
Marinade in Worcestershire sauce. Quick sear on each side on a hot grille, medium rare.
We are carnivores... and anyone who's been on Safari knows that killing animals is not blood lust.
Still... there ought to be a way to license rental of gun use for hunting. Auto execs insist that personal ownership of cars will vanish in the future. Why not for guns?
I've been known to rent the same gun I own, so I don't have to clean it later.
It's the same reason you go to a restaurant and you buy food you could make at home...so you don't have to make it at home!
I know. I'm a lazy son of a gun. But, lately, I go to the range primarily when others want to go, like first time shooters who want some training and free advice. I don't go because I want to go. So, on outings like that, I sometimes just rent the gun I know, and let them shoot the rental.
You can rent guns at many private ranges.
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I give the guy credit. Wonder how many NRA lawyers and lobbyists ever field dressed a deer?
Anyone who eats meat should know where it comes from and what it takes to get it on the table.
Plus when the zombie apocalypse comes, the fam will at least eat for a while.
"Anyone who eats meat should know...what it takes to get it on the table." Well said.
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Careful, you're starting to sound like Uncle Ted.
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They're the ones that keep the guides in business.
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I've never hired one, but I honestly don't think there is anything wrong in hiring a guide.
If you don't do it regularly, and you are on property you don't know, why not hire one if you have the money? It is safer, after all.
My safari was for observation only and I would have been blind without a guide.
My blood lust comment was based on watching predators staulk, kill and consume prey for their daily sustenance. Our ancestors did this for hundreds of thousands of years and I gotta assume that our present day hunters are motivated by unconscious predatory instincts.
Depends if it's fair chase and all that.
If you want to spend $5K to shoot someone's pet deer in a fenced in area, I guess you can, but I wouldn't call it hunting.
Guiding for elk in the mountains is obviously different and I'd recommend it over going alone for safety like you said.
Agreed.
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