Posted on 05/23/2020 11:21:22 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
The vast majority of Americans approve of hunting according to Responsive Management, an internationally recognized survey research firm in natural resource and outdoor recreation issues. A recent survey in conjunction with the National Shooting Sports Foundation revealed the current approval rating of hunting by Americans 18 years of age and older is the highest it’s been since Responsive Management began monitoring approval rates in 1995. During the past 25 years, overall approval of hunting has steadily grown from 73 to 80%. During the same time frame, overall disapproval of hunting has declined even more rapidly from 22 to only 13%.
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Why can’t people just buy meat in a store instead of killing an innocent animal?/s
Hunting for food is great!! Nose to tail.
Trophy hunters should be hunted.
Just wait until we have a real meat shortage. Hunting will become even more popular.
I’ve had mountain lion. Not bad. That said, if people would rather just collect the rug, I’m ok with that—it doesn’t have to be nose to tail with everything. When it comes to mountain lions or grizzlies, use a tranquilizer gun and release them in the SF Bay Area, Portland, Seattle, or Eugene—I’m cool with that too.
As I told a Vegan acquaintance a long time ago, if you’re starving you’ll eat anything.
I then refer them to the Scene in Papillion where Steve McQueen’s character chases down and eats a Cockroach in his Cell.
When I was a child here in North Carolina, seeing even deer tracks was a rare thing let alone spotting a deer. All game was pretty scarce. Wild turkey? Never saw one there in my life until the late 90’s. This scarcity I believe was due to overhunting during the Great Depression. It took four decades for numbers to increase to prior levels. What we have now is overpopulation. Deer have become a pest and a road hazard. Wild turkey are all over the place. Squirrels have become a pest as well. Hunting may be more popular than ever but there needs to be more of it. This much game is going to attract large predators eventually. I don’t relish the thought of stepping out my door and into the food chain.
Your definition of trophy hunters please.
Amazing how white Mountain Lion meat is - and bear is so purple. Certain animals like cougars, coyotes, and wolves are different - but killing a bear to sell the gall bladder, or an elk just to take the rack is criminal.
I’m not interested in keeping taxidermy thriving, I love to hear new recipes.
After a decade in the Infantry, shooting animals isn’t thrilling. It’s food.
“”:but killing a bear to sell the gall bladder, or an elk just to take the rack is criminal.””
You are correct, it is illegal. No state in the United States has game laws that will allow that.
Oh.
You mean hunting for animals.
I was rather hopeful that we’d turned the corner on this whole “tolerate the domestic enemy to live” thing.
You sound like a bureaucrat. See my tag line.
Yes but it may not last long.
Everyone will have the same idea and those with the equipment and skills to harvest and process animals will be hard at it.
After a few months to a year, maybe, depending on the area, a person may have to walk a long way to find something for the frying pan.
Hunting during the Great Depression severely impacted the game population. Deer hunting was banned around here until 1951. It came back slowly with strict permit quotas.
The past few years the state of Wisconsin has allowed me to take two bucks and either 8 or 9 does depending on the year. No application or drawing required, I just pays my money and I gets that many “harvest authorizations”. Two deer is plenty for our needs until the next year, so that’s where I stop, and some years only one.
We recently became experienced at pressure-canning meat for long-term storage though. Our first attempt went well. So maybe this fall I’ll take one or two extra and put them in pint jars. Lasts for years that way, no refrigeration required.
Have you ever had bear’n beans? It is a wonderful use of a bear neck. Simmered on a wood stove, of course.
I had bear at a wild game feed a long time ago. It was made sloppy-joe style so the flavor of the meat was masked somewhat. I liked it, though. Crock-Pot, not wood stove.
I’ve also had raccoon, and goat meat. That’s about it for exotics.
This is good news for America.
I'm not finding any thrill in hunting either, and I don't look for a thrill. My typical hunt involves showing up at a location where I know deer typically congregate at the time they typically congregate there, quietly moving into a position in less than a half hour while waiting for sunrise and deer to arrive, and then taking one shot. More than 90% of meat for my family is venison (or trout/bass/rockfish), and that's why I hunt and (part of why I) fish. So far I've lost a lot of fish but haven't missed with an arrow or needed a second shot even once. As for following a blood trail, I've only once had to go more than 100 yards, and that wasn't much more.
Back in WWII and meat rationing, we raised rabbits to put meat on the table. I was in my teens when Dad was drafted. After that it fell to me, as the oldest son, to kill and butcher the rabbits whenever mother needed meat for the table. I never really liked the job, but it had to be done, and it was that or go without.
The process was to stun the rabbit with a blow behind the ears with a hammer handle, hang it on a hook through a tendon in a back leg, then cut off the head. It was very unnerving to have the critter start screaming just as I started to behead it. Sometimes I still wake up with that scream ringing in my ears. I like eating meat, but I have sympathy for the butcher.
Wild goat? I’d never thought of goat as exotic.
I cooked a Beaver Tail once without eating it. Smelled like an old boot.
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