What goes around, comes around.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Just between you and me finn, shooting pheasants on the ground is a dickweed measuring contest.

You know why men can't get mad cow disease?

Because they're pigs.

Shooting any game bird or waterfowl off the ground or water is chickenshit (other than wild turkeys), and in many cases illegal.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Shooting any game bird or waterfowl off the ground or water is chickenshit (other than wild turkeys), and in many cases illegal.

Shooting any game, other than one that has a good chance to fight back, is chicken shit.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by nailer

Shooting any game, other than one that has a good chance to fight back, is chicken shit.

Unless you're one of those vegan numbnuts, your meat comes from somewhere. I'd rather eat good venison than hormone-laden beef. YMMV.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Unless you're one of those vegan numbnuts, your meat comes from somewhere. I'd rather eat good venison than hormone-laden beef. YMMV.

That's right genius, meat does indeed come from dead/killed animals.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by nailer

That's right genius, meat does indeed come from dead/killed animals.

Glad to help you figure that out.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Glad to help you figure that out.

Actually, I was giving you a gold star for knowing where meat came from.

[Ike Bana]

OK, my response above was made in an effort to maintain some level of collegiality since I'm back. However, I must be honest. Unless one has a commercial refrigerator and generator on the back of the pickup or one rents a reefer truck and can get it out inti the middle of the woods...by the time you get the carcass back home, on the hook, skinned, drained, cut up, packaged and frozen...it's too late. We all know that "gamey" taste is really rot. And even if you get the carcass right into the reefer, if you don't skin it first, the "venison" still ends up tasting like rotting deer ass.

So I do prefer the organic beef. And will happily continue to take a pass on the macabre entertainment value of it all.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Unless you're one of those vegan numbnuts, your meat comes from somewhere. I'd rather eat good venison than hormone-laden beef. YMMV.

As would I. That said...

You and I obviously come from a much different place when it comes to what constitutes entertainment.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

As would I. That said...

You and I obviously come from a much different place when it comes to what constitutes entertainment.

If you've never bowhunted for whitetails during the rut or hunted turkeys in the Spring, you wouldn't understand the thrill. I've done lots of fun, exhilarating things in my life from skiing to windsurfing to mountain biking to mountain climbing to photo safaris in Kenya, but rattling in a big whitetail buck during the rut is close to the top of the list when it comes to excitement.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by finnbow

If you've never bowhunted for whitetails during the rut or hunted turkeys in the Spring, you wouldn't understand the thrill. I've done lots of fun, exhilarating things in my life from skiing to windsurfing to mountain biking to mountain climbing to photo safaris in Kenya, but rattling in a big whitetail buck during the rut is close to the top of the list when it comes to excitement.

I've enoyed street biking since young, but as with my brothers, hunting was something that didn't 'take' from our father, nor for me, most other outdoor activities. Fishing and mountain hiking was something we shared with him until his stroke incapacitated him fairly late in life.
Nonetheless, I do support hunting as part of a responsible game management program and wonder how long it will get adequate participation.
I did a websearch on trends and found a few encouraging indications of continued support, here's onesuch;

http://www.slate.com/articles/health...vironment.html