[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“This is why I gave up hunting. I regretted the last whitetail deer I shot three years ago and have not picked up a rifle since.”

The very same thing happened to me in the mid-60s. I saw a buck with his harem on the top of a rise grazing at sunrise. I looked at the peaceful scene and could not shoot. I have not been hunting since but have been fishing for food but not for sport.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Whitetail are over abundant because they no longer have natural predators and
are dying from starvation and disease because there are so many.

Not harvesting them is cruel to the general population.

[98ZJ USMC]

“This is why I gave up hunting. I regretted the last whitetail deer I shot three years ago and have not picked up a rifle since.”

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The very same thing happened to me in the mid-60s. I saw a buck with his harem on the top of a rise grazing at sunrise. I looked at the peaceful scene and could not shoot. I have not been hunting since but have been fishing for food but not for sport.

No, you stopped hunting because it was/is NOT absolutely necessary to do so to survive. You, and I, can do our hunting and gathering on aisles 4,6,8 and 12 of Kroger.

One may marvel at all that is nature and still encounter no moral quandaries about taking game for food. It's the need vs. the kill. I have no NEED for game, thus I do not hunt it. If I need it, I will hunt it, regardless of the optics.

Same for fishing. I have never kept Bass. Walleye? You betcha. Crappie, Bluegill and Rock Bass go without saying. Great eating. Northern? I have, but I don't any longer. Northern is great eating, but I can do much better with panfish.

[KingLudd]

“I saw a buck with his harem on the top of a rise grazing at sunrise. I looked at the peaceful scene and could not shoot.”

Good bucks really are magnificent and beautiful. In Virginia, we have a liberal doe season so I take all I can. I’ve killed close to 40 deer and only one had antlers. I hunt for meat so the doe is better all around.